Colors and tint change on the target photo when synching photos in Lightroom Classic

[Ed Arnould]

Since the last upgrade of Lightroom Classic with AI enhancements, all of my target photos do not match the colors and tints of my source photos. I think the AI might be taking over and doing things I don't want to do. I prefer not to use AI other than on occasion when I use AI denoise.

[Ed Arnould]

[kglad]

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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[Ed Arnould]

Thanks for moving it, that was where I was sent when I pressed the help button in Lightroom Classic

[Jao vdL]

We need more info to help. The title mentions syncing. Do you mean syncing to the cloud or syncing settings between images?

The AI doesn't do anything if you don't actually use it. So not sure what your reference to the AI is. It does not do anything to your images if you don't specifically do any AI masking or use the new adapative profiles. Unexpected color shifts are usually due to problems with your GPU driver, bad monitor profiles, or due to profile mismatches such as a profile mismatch between a mobile device and Classic where a certain profile hasn't synced to the mobile version.

[Ed Arnould]

So when I take photos they are RAW format and I use completely manual settings including white balance so all pictures are taken with the same settings. I will take about two or three thousand at an event and then I will weed them out. Because I use burst mode on the camera I will get up to twenty photos of the same thing in a burst. So will make all the settings in the first image and instead of saving that as a profile I will synchonize to the other photos in that group. Only the first photo has the settings I tried to synchronize with. The colors and tint change. The two photos in this post shows the difference, both of these photos appea to have different settings but they are synchronized. The source photo is the white piece of fish and the target photo is the yellowish colored piece of fish. This is consistent through all of my editing since the last update to Lightroom Classic. I did notice that when I started Lightroom Classic after the last update there was a window that said AI is now available when sychronization of photos or something to that effect. I am not interested in using AI so just cancelled out. Is there a setting to use AI for synchronization that I do not know about.

[Ed Arnould · Accepted solution]

I believe I found the problem, even though it appears the color mixer settings are being copied and they are exactly the same, as soon as I click the profile that I used for my cameral calibration, it fixes the color of the image without making any changes to the color mixer settings.

[Taras33734253sgg3]

Hello! Could you solve your problem? I've already have the same problem, after export (or transfer to PS using Edit in... button) color is changing (becoming more desaturated). The problem appeared after new Lightroom update and I don't know how to solve it.

[Ed Arnould]

I have created a profile with the color mixer adjustments only and when I apply that profile it fixes it. Any other profile with any adjustments added in the color mixer adjustments only appears to copy the color mixer adjustments, they are not applied. 

[micheller9699923]

Could you walk me through exactly what you did to fix this? I'm having the same (very frustrating) issue. I don't know how to make a profile, so that would be super helpful if you don't mind explaining. 

[micheller9699923]

FYI for future readers -- 

I had the same issue that OP explained. I chatted adobe who remoted into my computer and fix it quickly. They had to change application settins for both adobe and lightroom (in multiple locations... I lost track) to be able to read and write. And then I *think* they reinstalled the latest version of lightroom on my computer. Honestly, though, I lost track of what all happened, so don't take my word for it. I would chat them! They helped quickly and solved the problem. Thank goodness too because wow this was frustrating and completey stopped my workflow. 

[Ed Arnould]

It sounds like you might have to apply the color mixer adjustments in Adobe Camera RAW to correct it after the export to PS. This is the exact same problem I am having, it appears to be that the Camera RAW will not copy the color mixer settings if there are any other adjustments with the profile being copied to the RAW image. Once this happens create a color mixer only profile and apply it. It will then fix it.