Colour issues on import

Hi @chrisnr2 

Can you send the color management settings that you are using in each program? And are you making graphics with Alpha channels where you see the color shift on fonts? Are these quick time video files  that have a variation in color shifts once you bring them into Premiere Pro or only upon export? Do you have a camera file that you are color grading and notice the shift when you have chosen a specific color management setting in Premiere pro? If you have any of the files in which you are seeing the shift can you send those our way? Neil has posted some good insight if you are dealing with screengrabs, stills and jpegs .

What is your color work flow details? Sometimes you do need to tweak the color in Premiere especially with stills to get them to look exactly how you want. Your work flow details would be helpful for us to know.  I can talk to some of the team in color management once we have some more details.

Thank you

Ian

Hello @chrisnr2,

I have just returned from extended leave. You may want to ask @Rach McIntire for any updates on this issue while I get caught up.

Cheers,
Kevin

In the Media Properties dialog, what does Premiere show for those files as the color space?

Any further progress on this @Kevin-Monahan ?

Yes, @Rach McIntire I have just tested in 25 and the behaviour is identical.

There's an option in Photoshop as I recall for Rec.709 which uses the sRGB color space with a display gamma of 2.4. Which is a required part of SDR video.

I wonder if that is the issue? It wasn't created with a gamma 2.4 display?

Hello @chrisnr2,

Thanks for the response and information. You wrote:

A variety of image file types are created (using different processes in P’shop and Lightroom Classic) from one Windows 10 screenshot. All these types display identically when viewed in Windows Photo Viewer, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop. However, files *exported from both Photoshop and Lightroom Classic display differently in Premier Pro.

Adobe Premier Pro version 24.6.3 (build 4)

Lightroom Classic 14.0.1 202410161356-30922cfc

Photoshop 2025 26.0.0 workspace sRGB IEC61966-2.1 North America General Purpose 2

Microsoft Windows 10 Home

Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045

X64-based PC

AMD Ryzen 5 56000X 6-core Processor, 3701 Mhz

NVIDiA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

16gb RAM

SSD 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Base image created from the screenshot, pasted into Windows Paint, cropped, and saved as a jpg file
2. Import file into P’shop, add text and save as tiff, save as PSD, save as jpg, export as jpg (option to convert to sRGB remains selected)
3. Import the file into Lightroom Classic and export it as jpg (same sRGB settings)
4. Import all files into Premier Pro and stack in layers, change position so all are visible together

A paler shade of blue in both the *exported files (Lightroom Classic and Photoshop) is visible within Premier Pro. They remain identical to the other images when viewed in Photoshop or other photo viewing / manipulation software.

Screenshot of Premier Pro stack: (showing color variation) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_cW-BXLH04ZM3OdF4LM72DXCl7eYd1P-/view?usp=drive_link

Screenshot of Photoshop stack (no colour variation)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bGFj-gJiGPmRPTemq7da0eiYvXV1zwhi/view?usp=drive_link

Thanks, very much for this info. It sounds like a color management issue. I'll try to get an engineer to respond here. In the meantime, perhaps one of our experts can handle this one.

Cheers,
Kevin

Should this have had a further response by now @Kevin-Monahan 

Perhaps it's too many words.

Try this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lVTaI9K7JDsJzP_0ebanVyup6acDbudmHOKNG08sVCo/edit?usp=sharing