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zachh58152672
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June 16, 2022
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Colors Automatically Changing When I Move Mouse in Lightroom Classic

  • June 16, 2022
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I am on a Mac Studio with the M1 Chip with Monterey 12.4 as my OS. Randomly, my photo colors will change when I move my mouse to certain panels in Lightroom Classic. Please see attaced video for an example. It is a very small change in color, so you might have to look closely. 

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Megan Crist Photo
Megan Crist Photo
Participant
June 19, 2022

I was also just having this problem and I updated the app which fixed it. 🙂

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    zachh58152672Author
    Participant
    June 19, 2022

    Was the recently for you?

    Megan Crist Photo
    Megan Crist Photo
    Participant
    June 19, 2022

    Yep just this morning.

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      Jao vdLCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 18, 2022

      I can see the indeed extremely subtle (but present) change despite my slight color blindness. This is more likeley a change in the window compositing mode that happens when the mouse moves out of the main area and the image is rendered to the display in a slightly different chain in the windowing system and the graphics card and likely has more to do with scaling the image than color rendering. To this point, does the same thing happen if you zoom in 1:1 on the faces? The amount of this change is smaller than what you will see switching between Library and Develop so not likely to be significant and dwarfed by other variations in color rendering. Have you calibrated this display? 

        johnrellis
        johnrellis
        Legend
        June 18, 2022

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        It's pretty noticeable to my eyes on my calibrated Eizo display -- the reds are noticeably attenuated, noticeable in the skin tones and bricks.

         

        I've overlaid two frame grabs from the video as layers in a .psd; toggle the visibility of the top layer to compare visually:

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/mrwc51q8gzl39n0/mouse-color.2022.06.17.psd?dl=0 

         

        Here's the difference of two frame grabs:

         

        There are differences up to 20/255, but most of the pixels have differences between 0 and 10/255.

         

        "The amount of this change is smaller than what you will see switching between Library and Develop"

         

        I took screenshots of several photos in Library Loupe and Develop Loupe at the same magnification (100% and 33%) and aligned them as layers in Photoshop, and I couldn't see any visual differences. For example:

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ui15wjg5a0svrl/loupe-develop.2022.06.17.psd?dl=0

         

         

         

          TheDigitalDog
          TheDigitalDog
          Inspiring
          June 16, 2022

          At least as the video renders here in the forum, I see no color changing as you move the mouse. 

          If you disable GPU in preferences, any difference? 

          The other possibility is you've got a corrupted display profile. 

          Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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          zachh58152672Author
          Participant
          June 16, 2022

          Look very closely at their skin tone when I move the mouse to the top panel. I still see it. Thanks for the reply and tips though. I will check on those. 

          johnrellis
          johnrellis
          Legend
          June 17, 2022

          I see the color change.  One more thing to try, resetting LR's preferences:
          https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/


          LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

           

          In this case, it's possible that a corrupt preferences file is causing LR to think the mouse is hovering over a preset and you're seeing the preview of that preset.  Or LR might be horribly confused in another way.

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