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alizabi
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February 17, 2017
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Lightroom Imports look too dark compared to Photoshop

  • February 17, 2017
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Please help,

I am a fairly experienced Lightroom & Photoshop user.

I have just noticed some very unusual behavior.  I use a fully colour managed workflow & have a calibrated monitor.

My Chosen Color working space is Prophoto RGB.

All was well until recently.  I noticed that when I import images into lightroom from photoshop the images appear darker in the shadows than they do in photoshop.

Even more strangely the image when viewed in lightroom library mode is displayed 100% accurately (they match photoshop) but as soon as I switch to develop mode in lightroom, the image darkens considerably & shadows get blocked up.  It's almost as though a profile of some sort is bieng re-applied over top of the original correctly displayed import profile.  It happens with my jpeg files, Fuji RAF files, Nikon NEF files etc ....

I have checked all my settings on both photoshop & lightroom & have found nothing set incorrectly.

Please help, I'm going out of my mind here trying to figure out what is going on.

Thank, Ali

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 6, 2017

    Ok Guys,

    Thank you for the many replies.

    I'm afraid that the problem still exists. 

    Except that now even when I go back & select 'Adobe RGB 1998' I still get a difference between how the image looks in the shadows in the 'Library mode' of Lightroom vs 'Develop mode'.

    I have tried all the other things brought up in this forum & am having no luck.

    I even went and bought a new calibrator (Xrite i1 Display Pro) & tried again but still no luck.????

    Could it be that my now ageing Eizo CG222W monitor (More than 7 years old) is at fault in some way???

    Please advise????

    Thanks, Ali

    Todd Shaner
    Todd Shaner
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    March 8, 2017

    alizabi  wrote

    Except that now even when I go back & select 'Adobe RGB 1998' I still get a difference between how the image looks in the shadows in the 'Library mode' of Lightroom vs 'Develop mode'.

    Is this something that just appeared? If so it may be due to applying excessive sharpening and insufficient Luminance NR to high ISO images.Do the Library and Develop module images look the same at 1:1 Zoom View?

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 18, 2017

    I've switched back to Adobe RGB 1998 as default monitor profile & Lightroom & Photoshop are now matching ..

    Thanks, Ali

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 18, 2017

    Well I spoke to soon, I am now looking at an image in Lightroom & the color is quite different to how it looks in Photoshop ..

    Any advice???

    Could it actually be that my monitor calibrator is broken??

    Thank, Ali

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 17, 2017

    Following on from my last point is there some way I can verify the monitor calibration .. I know that color navigator has a verification tool but I cannot make heads nor tales of it ...

    Thanks, Ali

    Per Berntsen
    Community Expert
    Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 18, 2017

    Eizo monitors are pretty good out of the box, so it's not surprising that you don't see much difference-

    The CG222W reproduces 98% of sRGB and 92% of Adobe RGB, so using sRGB should probably be a closer match.

    If you have seen big differences before, I guess that this was with a different make monitor?

    The Color Edge Eizos are top of the class, but many other brands will not be good out of the box.

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 18, 2017

    So you think that I have an issue with my i1display2 calibrator??

    Thanks, Ali

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 17, 2017

    Ok that seems to have done the trick thank you all for the advice

    But I only have one nagging doubt ..

    Even thought the last step seems to have resolved the issue, the actual color calibration looked exactly the same whether I selected the generic Adobe RGB 1998 profile, or this new profile created using my hardware/software calibration tools. 

    This strikes me as very odd, unless my monitor is very well calibrated to start with it makes little sense to me ...

    Can anyone tell me what may be going on ?? I used to remember that when I calibrated a monitor using hardware/software calibration tools that the final result would look very different to the factory default settings ..

    Thank, Ali

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 17, 2017

    Hi thanks again for your reply.

    I have tried following your instructions and have created the new profile using icc version 2.2 but even now the new profile has not fixed the issue.

    Any further suggestions???

    Could it be that my monitor calibrator is broken??

    Thanks, Ali

    Hal P Anderson
    Hal P Anderson
    Inspiring
    February 17, 2017

    Ali,

    I think it probably is. It definitely is producing profiles that are faulty in some way.

    Hal

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 17, 2017

    Hi,

    Thank you so much for your reply

    Ok, so I followed your steps & I do indeed have a problem with the monitor profile, because even though the correct monitor profile was selected as default, when I de-selected it & changed it to Adobe RGB (1998) as you asked me too, "it did solve the problem."

    So I tried re-calibrating my monitor & unfortunately the new calibration still has the same issue.

    I have an Eizo ColourEdge CG222W monitor & i'm using a Eye 1display2 to calibrate, calibration software is Eizo's colour Navigator 6.

    I am however unsure as how to select version 2 icc profile in the software, do you have any suggestions on this???

    Thanks, Ali

    Per Berntsen
    Community Expert
    Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 17, 2017

    I also have an Eizo monitor, and use Color Navigator.

    The only way I've found to set the profile version is by creating a new target.

    In the main Color Navigator window, highlight an existing target, (like your current profile) and click Create a new target.

    When you get to this screen, click Customize profile, and choose version 2.2.

    Then run calibration with the new target.

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 17, 2017

    Hi,

    Lightroom CC 2015.3

    Photoshop CC 2017.0.1 Release

    Windows 10 OS

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    February 17, 2017

    What version NUMBER of Lightroom?

    What version NUMBER of Photoshop?

    What version NUMBER of your operating system?

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    alizabiAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 17, 2017

    I should add my OS is:

    Windows 10 Pro Version 1607

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      edwardn15371498
      Participant
      March 29, 2022

      When colors don't match between Lightroom and Photoshop, and/or between Library and Develop, it's always caused by a defective or incompatible monitor profile. Many Windows 10 users have this problem, because Windows updates often install low quality monitor manufacterers' profiles.

      First of all, check that Windows really is using a profile that was created by calibration. If not, select the correct profile, and click Set as default profile.

      If that's not the problem, try setting the profile to sRGB, or Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor.

      If that fixes the issue, there is something wrong with the monitor profile, and you have to re-calibrate.

      Lightroom is not compatible with version 4 icc profiles, so be sure to choose version 2 in the calibration software.

      To check what profile you are using, and to change to sRGB or Adobe RGB, press the Windows key+R, and type colorcpl in the box and press Enter.


      I've been searching for this for almost 9 months, this literally fixed my issues immediatley thankyou

       

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