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alexm19893581
Participant
November 13, 2016
Question

Lightroom photos washed out after exporting

After processing photo in lightroom I export it to my hard drive and or my files on pc but the colour has been stripped out of the photo which is now washed out. Ive unistalled lightroom/photoshop and the plug in NIK in case that was the problem and reinstalled them. The issue is still there.  Can anyone suggest a remedy please. Alex.

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    3 commentaires

    Participant
    December 26, 2019

    Were you ever able to solve this Issue? I'm experiencing the same problem

    ManiacJoe
    Inspiring
    December 26, 2019

    This is usually a problem of your picture viewing app not being properly color managed -- for example, Windows default picture app -- or the profile of your monitor needs to be recalibrated.

     

    Mac or Windows? Which version?

    What program are you viewing your images in?

    Which color space are your images exported in? (sRGB is best.)

     

    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    November 13, 2016

    What color space are you choosing for your exported images? For looking at them on the computer or sharing on the web you should choose the  sRGB color space. If you chose Adobe RGB, that can be the source of your problem.

    alexm19893581
    Participant
    November 13, 2016

    Hi Jim,  Thanks for the reply. Ive tried all different settings in Lightroom preferences export editing ie. pro photo rgb, sRGB and ADOBE RGB and in the additional external editor Ive tried all the various permutations ensuring that they match up and mis matched them but the photos are still washed out. The photos are fine in Lightroom and Photoshop and even saving them from photoshop which is in sRGB as well as a PSD makes no difference.  Ive also used 8 / 16 bits to no avail.  Ive had Lightroom for 2 years and it was working fine colour wise Recently it has been acting up taking ages to load etc so I unistalled it twice but no joy. Ill try phoning ADOBE this week to see what they suggest. Many thanks once again. Alex

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 13, 2016

    alexm19893581 wrote:

    The photos are fine in Lightroom and Photoshop

    I'm a little confused here. If they are fine in Lr/PS, and you export as sRGB, then where, exactly, are they washed out?

    Can you post a side by side screenshot?

    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 13, 2016