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October 18, 2023

P: Later loading of the color scheme of a photo rather than the photo itself

  • October 18, 2023
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Since the latest version of Lightroom 3.0, it has been introduced that a photo loads faster than its actual colour. Sometimes I have to wait a second after opening a photo to get the correct colouring. This is very annoying as it's hard to focus on comparing the photo against the previous one. Is it possible to turn this off somehow? I would prefer to wait even a second for a photo to appear already with the correct colour scheme rather than initially having to preview a false version.

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 21, 2024

Greetings all, 

 

Updates for the Adobe Photography Products have been released.  The May 2024 updates contain an update for this issue. 

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

 

Thank you for being so patient.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 21, 2024

Greetings all, 

 

Updates for the Adobe Photography Products have been released.  The May 2024 updates contain an update for this issue. 

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

 

Thank you for being so patient.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Inspiring
November 30, 2023

So after the last update (13.0.2.) it is much more bearable, it still happens, especially for raw and tiff (edited in photoshop) it does not do it at all for dng images where I removed the noise from the photo)
Mostly it happens when I first click on photos I haven't looked at in a while and especially just after opening lightroom, but once it's loaded and I'm clicking back and forth it doesn't do it anymore. Before it did it every time I scrolled a photo, even if I just cycled through two photos side by side and quickly clicked through.
But I just updated, it will need more testing, but I already know it's better.
But most importantly, it solved a bug where I wanted to crop an edited photo and when I clicked enter, the whole lightroom crashed (I had to click out with the mouse)

Inspiring
November 27, 2023

I have this problem too, it's very annoying I tried really hard to mess with preferences, clear cache, uncheck auto load preview etc. nothing worked

Community Expert
November 22, 2023

I've been seeing this since v12 at least but probably longer. When initially loading in develop it shows the image with a white balance that is way off (image is very blue) just for half a second. It's just a momentary flash but like OP it messes with your color perception. This only happens to images that have never been taken into develop before and it doesn't matter what kind of preview you built. This is not a big deal to me but I have wondered what it was and I just wrote it off as loading of the raw data onto the GPU stack and the rendering stack being built as one is watching. This is on a 16" M1 Max MBP 32 GB. 

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 22, 2023

I've opened a ticket to further investigate this issue. Thank you for the video. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Known Participant
November 19, 2023

@Rikk Flohr: Inactive, are there any updates on this issue?

Participant
November 14, 2023

I am facing the same issue too!!! Lightroom please do something!!

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 18, 2023

A suggestion to try- When you import your photos to the Catalog- Set the File Handling to Build previews that are "Standard" or "1:1".

This will force LrC to build the preview with colors as determined by LrC (as in set profiles or Presets).

Using "Embedded & Sidecar" means that the camera generated preview remains visible until an image is edited, resulting in that "wait a second".

Why do I see my images change after they are imported into Lightroom? | Laura Shoe's Lightroom Training, Tutorials and Tips

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .
Known Participant
November 6, 2023

Thank you for your response.

Unfortunately, my problem is primarily with the already created directories. I am a wedding photographer and I select everything on the fly - I also give away the trailer. I currently have about 25 created directories where this problem occurs. Is it possible to apply these settings to already created catalogs? Before upgrading Lightroom to version 13, this problem did not occur and everything displayed instantly. Now with each photo I have to wait about 0.5-1 sec for it to update to the color scheme I applied to the photo. This greatly distorts the perception of the photo making adjustments photo by photo.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 6, 2023

I see this too. It takes about 0.5 seconds for a photo to show the final edits. This has nothing to do with embedded previews (that I never use). When the photo is displayed, I initially do see some edits, but it's as if the 'final touch' needs that extra half second for some reason. Maybe it's masks or some other AI stuff that needs a final quick check, I have no idea.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Known Participant
October 18, 2023

Of course, this is about Lightroom version 13, not version 3.