Lightroom Classic Develop Module looks wrong for me--Unexpected Yellow Tint on image AND background.

[Theresa Valls]

Hello, I hope you can help. I'm very experienced with Photoshop (professional photo studio) and I'm learning how to use Lightroom. I'm working my way through a detailed tutorial and have encountered something unexpected. 

In the Develop module ONLY, I'm getting a weird color overlay on the image AND the background. If I change the background color in preferences, it persists. For example the White option looks pale yellow. The gray option looks like yellow overlaid on gray. So it's not coming from the background color preference.

In the other modules, for example, Library, Print, Slideshow, etc. The background in the center panel looks as it should. It's white, as you would expect, if white is the chosen color in the preferences.

Soft proofing is not enabled, so I don't think that's causing the strange color. 

I am working on the latest version of Lightroom Classic. My Mac is running Sequoia 15.3.2. I've included screen grabs of the other information that might be relevant. I appreciate your help in solving this issue so that I can continue learning about all the cool features in Lightroom Classic. Thank you!!!

[JohanElzenga]

Please do not attach images (and certainly not that many), but embed them so they show in your message. Many people, including me, will not bother to look at so many attached images, because that's a PITA. Use this button:

[Theresa Valls]

Thank you for this tip, Johan. I have made another post with the embed method. Do you know if I can edit my intial post to do this as well?

[JohanElzenga]

Thank you for this tip, Johan. I have made another post with the embed method. Do you know if I can edit my intial post to do this as well?

By @Theresa Valls

No need for a new post. I merged your posts, so the post with the embedded images is now part of this thread as well.

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

Initial troubleshooting:

1. Quickly test if the assigned color display profile is incompatible or corrupted:

http://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-change-my-monitor-profile-to-check-whether-its-...

2. Set Preferences > Performance > Use Graphics Processor to Off and restart LR. 

[Theresa Valls]

Hello, I hope you can help. I'm very experienced with Photoshop (professional photo studio) and I'm learning how to use Lightroom. I'm working my way through a detailed tutorial and have encountered something unexpected. 

In the Develop module ONLY, I'm getting a weird color overlay on the image AND the background. If I change the background color in preferences, it persists. For example the White option looks pale yellow. The gray option looks like yellow overlaid on gray. So it's not coming from the background color preference.

In the other modules, for example, Library, Print, Slideshow, etc. The background in the center panel looks as it should. It's white, as you would expect, if white is the chosen color in the preferences.

Soft proofing is not enabled, so I don't think that's causing the strange color. 

I am working on the latest version of Lightroom Classic. My Mac is running Sequoia 15.3.2. I've included screen grabs of the other information that might be relevant. I appreciate your help in solving this issue so that I can continue learning about all the cool features in Lightroom Classic. Thank you!!!

[JohanElzenga]

You are using an icc-profile as monitor profile, called "iMac Medium-Patch_21-01-2023.icc". What kind of profile is that? This could be the reason for your problem. The best thing to do is calibrate your monitor and let the calibration software create a profile. If that is what you did, and this is such a profile, then make sure you do not let the software create a version 4 profile. Lightroom Classic can't work with that. Use a Version 2 profile.

[Theresa Valls]

Johan, your answer let me to the solution. I posted about our studio's calibration process and our os updates. I think the issue lies somewhere in that mix. I'm on my way again, and I appreciate your help.

t.

[Theresa Valls]

SOLVED. Thank you for this quick tip. We have our monitors calibrated at our studio about every few months. I clicked away from my custom profile and restarted Lightroom and it is displaying as it should. In the time since I last calibrated, we have updated our OS and also our PS versions. I'll make sure that any updated custom monitor profiles don't have this conflict/corruption. I appreciate you taking time to help me out. Now my tutorial can continue happily. Many thanks.T