Colour difference between Develop Mode and Library

Report · Jan 09, 2022

Hi everyone! I`ve had this problem since one of the updates of LR for Mac in december`21. I`ve already read all the simillar topics here and I`ve already did everything suggested in comments, all the methods that helped the others.

I know that tthe diffeerence of colours is possible, because of different colour space in these modes (ProPhoto RGB and Adobe RGB), but all the way before I didn`t have any problem like this. Everything was perfect.

The problem is that The colors look correctly in the Library mode (naturally, as they always were), the picture is loaded slightly in the Develop mode and the color distortion occurs, the feeling is as if there is some preset. The faded warm filter seems to be applied and I can't change it in any way, because in fact no settings were applied. I`ve already changed the colour profile of my monitor, on/off grafic processor, reinstalled all new and previous versions of LR, wrote to the customers support. Nothing helped.

I need to pay specific attention, that in library mode the colours are true, in Develop mode they are false. I don`t need just to avoid the difference by deleting previews, in this case the colours just start look false in both mode. I need to correct this strange processing of colour of images.

I exported them and saw on my phone, the colour is distorted. I compared screenshots on Mac and on Iphone, I can see this false colour on both devices.

I can`t work because of the problem. I really hope that you will help me 🙏🏻

1st picture: Develop mode - false colours

2nd picture: Library mode - true, natuural colours

Report · Mar 15, 2024

The driver for your graphics card is quite out of date. Current driver version is 31.0.101.5333. That is likely your issue. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/intel-arc-iris-xe-graphics-windows.html

Out of date graphics card drivers can cause this issue because they often contain bugs that trigger issues such as color correction not happening. Turning off the use of the GPU is only a test whether the GPU driver is misbehaving. It will slow down processing by a large amount so best to update and try again.

Report · Apr 01, 2024

OMG this actually worked for me!!! I checked so many forum posts and videos and none of the solutions were working. thank you soooo much! 🙏

Report · Jul 24, 2024

This definitely "solved" the problem for me.

The GPU rendering is somehow causing the same image to look very different in the Library and Develop modules. (Nvidia 3090 card on a Windows 11 machine, all drivers current as of the date of this reply).

HOWEVER, disabling GPU rendering created a different problem for me, which is that it causes HDR editing to be disabled. Apparently, HDR editing is only available if GPU rendering is turned on. So, I'm stuck with the terribly mismatched colors between Library and Develop, if I want to work in HDR.

Report · Jul 24, 2024

Hi.

Similar situation occures for me today, but I use Windows

but it seems we have exactly the same problem with the colours difference in library and develope module

Report · Jul 24, 2024

@GioHunt and @jaka71, please copy the results of the menu command Help > System Info here so we can see the precise hardware and software versions LR thinks you're running.