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.

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BHSnapperAuthor

Participating Frequently

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

Ha ha! This is all very helpful, but I'm not a geek. Perhaps I just bought the wrong monitor? I'm loath to spend out even more on a new monitor even one with (claimed) 100% sRGB proflle! it looks as though I'm going to have to use LR for actual rating and printing. I only use PS for adjusting skin tonwes as I (as I said above) I'm R-G colour blind and have been known to give ppls' skins a lovely shade of green.

Thank you to EVERYBODY who has taken the time and trouble to try to help - the failure is mine.

PS Before I got my mini mac I used a very elderly iMac (2008) and never had this problem!

So did you try disabling the GPU and setting the monitor profile to sRGB?

Buying a new monitor is not going to fix the issue.

According to Dell, the color gamut of your monitor covers 99% of sRGB, so if you have an incompatible monitor profile, sRGB should be a good fit.

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