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COLOURS ARE COMING OUT DIFFERENT AFTER EXPORT.

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March 29, 2018
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Hello Everyone,

I have been using Lightroom for a long time and have never had an issue, but the past couple of weeks everytime I export the colours are coming out more red-toned. I use a calibrated benq computer monitor, so it's not the screen calibration messing the images up. the photos are absolutely fine in adobe but as soon as they're out of Adobe they are ruined. we have started exporting from macs and this seems to be working but is not practical. if anyone has any ideas please let me know asap!! thankyou.

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Vito Leskovec

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Thank you for help, done.

Vito Leskovec

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I have the same problem, but in the opposite direction. I make photos with Nikon camera just fine, import photos and than baaam, sliders are jumping in develop maggio and my photos are totally different now. I must change every single photo, but my work is destroyed. Even if I re-import the already processed photos into lightroom, they turn them lightroom into its settings, which I do not know where it is from. Previously, the program worked normally and imported the photos as they were made. Sorry for my english

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Vito,

go into your preferences ->Presets. Click "Reset all default Develop settings".

Also, at import make sure to not select a develop preset

Now reset an image from this camera. Doesn't matter whether you already imported it. Go into Develop and hit the big reset button at the bottom. Open the profile browser (the 4 squares to the right of the profile popup in Basic) and select "Camera Standard" Also make sure to star the other camera matching profiles. Now you should have the image looking like the in-camera jpeg preview that you first saw when you imported the raw file. You can change this to the default for files from this camera by alt/option clicking the reset button which will turn into "Set Default ..." when you hit the alt/option key.

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david.at.large

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I used to have the same problem. I use a Dell XPS 15 9560 with 4k screen, edit Photos in LR CC and view in Fast Stone Image Viewer 6.4 (with Color Management System active, i.e. should be sensitive to the color profile). Originally, photos were much more saturated after export, especially the warm colors. When I viewed them in Chrome, they looked like in LR. Weirdly, just now, the difference is gone. Unfortunately not in the "direction" I wanted. Now, the photo also looks saturated in LR. I played a bit with Dell PremiumColor but eventually reset all changes to default. The Screen Color is now set to Brillant (complete/full) [mine is German, so don't know the exact term]. I have also forced the laptop to use the dedicated graphics card for all apps and then, just to be sure, forced it specifically to use the GPU for LR and FS. However, when I originally did that it did not change a thing, so I am not sure what caused the change.

Very frustrating, the whole issue. It really keeps me from editing photos when I don't know what they look like later.

TheDigitalDog

Inspiring

IF colors do not match what you see from Lightroom, Photoshop or ICC aware applications/web browsers like Safari etc, then they are likely not color managed OR, there can be issues with how they deal with the display profile. Some applications do not deal well with V4 generated display profiles. Some don't do well with LUT built profiles. So if you're absolutely sure the application is color aware, regenerate a new display profile and try differing settings (V2, Matrix). Profiles can get wonky (the technical term for corrupted <g>) so regeneration or simply deleting the profile can sometimes fix the issue. With ICC aware applications, it is absolutely not necessary to export sRGB. ALL RGB color spaces with tagged profiles will preview correctly as seen in Photoshop, LR etc. LR cannot produce an untagged document but Photoshop and other applications can and this is a huge problem. Even with ICC aware applications. There's no description of the color space, the scale of the RGB numbers. So they have to assume something and usually it is sRGB (or ugh, the display profile). And that is where color mismatches can show up even with ICC aware applications. But that's not possible with Lightroom. It always embeds an ICC profile.

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

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pithreel44403925

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I'm having the same problem. I'm using a Dell XPS 15 9550 with a 4K screen. I edit in Photoshop and Lightroom. It doesn't matter whether I edit raw or jpegs, once the images are processed in PS or LR and "saved as" jpegs. The resulting images are overly saturated. I'm worried because I want to deliver the images the way I processed them in PS and LR. I don't want the clients to see oversaturated images, but I can't figure out how to make the jpegs match the photos in my workflow. I've watched thedigitaldog's video on how to start with the right color profiles in PS, but the images still have that weird color shift. Need your help please.

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

As far as I can tell, the Dell XPS 15 9550 has a wide gamut screen, in which case you must use only color managed applications to view your work. Viewing images in applications without color management (such as the Photos app and the Edge browser) will inevitably lead to over saturation on wide gamut monitors.

The Windows Photo Viewer is color managed, and also Bridge.

The free Irfanview image viewer is also color managed. (you need to enable color management under Settings)

TheDigitalDog

Inspiring

You need to tell us where you're viewing the explored files because as Per stated, IF the secondary application isn't color managed, it's very possible the previews will not match! Has nothing to do with the profile used for export; all ICC aware applications will preview the same data, the same way. Non color managed applications don't. Many web browsers for example are not color managed or need color management 'turned on'.

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

thedigitaldog wrote
Many web browsers for example are not color managed or need color management 'turned on'.

This has changed recently - Chrome and Opera are now fully color managed out of the box, and will even assign sRGB to untagged images, like Firefox does with Color management mode set to 1. The only major browsers that still aren't color managed are Internet Explorer and Edge. Nothing is obviously going to happen with Internet Explorer, but I don't think Edge will become color managed either. I have a feeling that Microsoft considers the over saturation on wide gamut monitors "attractive". Or maybe they just don't have a clue.

I don't use a Mac, but I assume that Safari is color managed.

TheDigitalDog

Inspiring

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Per+Berntsen wrote
thedigitaldog wrote
Many web browsers for example are not color managed or need color management 'turned on'.
This has changed recently - Chrome and Opera are now fully color managed out of the box, and will even assign sRGB to untagged images, like Firefox does with Color management mode set to 1.

That's my point; some need to be configured for color management. Safari BTW doesn't. It's color managed period.

For those of us one a wide gamut display, assigning sRGB would be an issue. An issue if the data isn't in sRGB. But anyone posting untagged data kind of deserves what they get.

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"