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Lightroom Export Color Issues: Fixing Contrast Problems with Display P3

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
October 15, 2025
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Hello 🙂

Coming back from a trip abroad I wanted to finally edit and export my pictures. Problem is, when exporting said pictures, it seems to crank up the contrast.

So when I modify a picture in lightroom (simple and classic both have the issue), I don't have the true colours up until the export is done. Like working blindfolded...

My screen is setup with a Display P3 ICC profile, I export in PNG with the Display P3 colour gamut.

I've tried veiwing hte pictures with different apps and it still renders the same. So export problem.

I tried to look online this issue, activated soft-proofing and nothing changed.

I don't want to go insane, please help me 🙂

(you'll find a screen capture of said difference)

Windows

Correct answer Tanguy_Caron

Hello,

So I de-activated something called "colours managed by apps" and installed a new ICC profile and it worked somehow...

Thank you all for helping !

Tanguy

JmyLds

Participant

Hello everyone, I'm facing the same issue. I've already tried disabling 'Automatically manage color for apps' in Windows and switched my ICC profile to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, but the problem persists. The histogram of the exported TIFF (16-bit) is still noticeably different from the original RAW histogram within Lightroom. Any ideas ?

CMass

Legend

Hey @JmyLds,

Can you share what version of Lightroom Classic you’re seeing this issue in? You should be able to find this information by going to Help > System Info.

Best,
CMass

JmyLds

Participant

Hi,
I use the Lightroom Classic 15.2.1, and the same problem on the Lightroom 8.3.1
Thank you in advance for your help

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Tanguy_CaronAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Hello,

So I de-activated something called "colours managed by apps" and installed a new ICC profile and it worked somehow...

Thank you all for helping !

Tanguy

Conrad_C

Community Expert

What is the model of your display?

Is the panel natively Display P3, or does it have a hardware setting for Display P3?

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Tanguy_CaronAuthor

Inspiring

AlienWare AW2725DM, adverised at 95% DCI-P3. Display P3 or DCI-P3 ICC profile in windows (both have the same result).

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Do not export as Display P3. Every non-color managed app will show the colors incorrectly if you do that. Export as sRGB.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Tanguy_CaronAuthor

Inspiring

I tried exporting with all the colour profiles and it does the same 😕😕

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

That sounds like you are looking at the exported image in a non-color managed app. Even though sRGB should give you the closest match, it won't give a full match. Only color managed apps show the correct colors (on a calibrated monitor, that is).

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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