Colour Difference between Lightroom (bright) Photoshop (Duller)

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July 5, 2024
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MacOS, Mac Mini, Colours, Dell S272H, Lightroom, Photoshop

In Lightroom (latest version) the colours of a simple shot obviously brighter compared to Photoshop (latest version). Colours most affected seem to bright yellow/yellow greens.

The colour profiles are identical (set all to PRoPhoto). If I check the same image in Bridge, again brighter than PS.

Tried all on sRGB. No change.

Similarly in Serif's Affintity v.2 colours pretty well the same as LR....

All 3 much better than PS!

(And I'm partially colour-blind too!)

Using Mac Mini and a Dell S272H, reprofiled using a Spyder X Pro

Even printing via (gulp) Epson Easy Photoprint on my old iMac are good!

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GoldingD

Legend

One image is against a black background, the other against a gray background. That effects perception. You need to compare with the same background.

B

BHSnapperAuthor

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Hi there, thank you for your comment. Unfortunately there was only a marginal improvement. I took the image and increased the canvas to fill pretty well all of the surround of the of the iamge with pure black. Oh well. in the end it's the print that counts.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

I can see the difference, the Lightroom image has more saturated colors.

When two (or more) color managed applications don't match, it's usually caused by a defective or incompatible monitor profile, or a bug in the GPU driver.

For troubleshooting, start by disabling the GPU in LrC.

If LrC and PS now display identically, updating the GPU driver to the latest version might fix the issue. Since you're on a Mac, you'll have to wait for an OS update to update the driver. (Windows users can update drivers anytime)

To check for a defective monitor profile, try setting it to sRGB. You do this in the OS, but I'm a Windows user, and can't tell you how to do it on a Mac. Close all color managed applications before doing this.

If this fixes the issue, the monitor profile is the culprit.

I had a look at the manual for the Spyder X Pro, and the calibration software seems to be quite basic, and some important options are missing.

There is no option for saving a version 2 or version 4 ICC profile, and no option for LUT or Matrix profile.

If the software uses version 4 and/or LUT, it could be causing the issue. Version 2 and Matrix is the safe choice.

You could try using DisplayCal instead of the Spyder software. It has several options for profile type, and it only saves version 2 profiles, version 4 is not even an option.

DispalyCal has an overwhelming number of options and settings, and it's probably best to stick with the defaults for most of them.

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