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Browneye1967
Browneye1967
Inspiring
February 4, 2024
Question

Lightroom Previews Colour Incorrect

  • February 4, 2024
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So why does Lightroom Classic one day show the correct colours on previews, the next day not?

 

When this started, nothing updated, nothing was installed, one day it was working the next day not.

 

Everything has a brown cast. I've looked at the endless posts on this community, tried all the suggestions and nothing fixes the problem. I've tried the specific monitor profile, the sRGB profile, set them as default, loaded the latest graphics drivers, rebooted/restarted endlessly.

 

The only place to see the correct  colour is in the develop module full screen.

 

So what do you have to do to get this to work. Trying to sort through photos and can't see the correct colour in the library module is frustrating.

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    Geoff Bartlett
    Inspiring
    February 11, 2024

    Is this a preview problem? You could try renaming/deleting the "XXX Previews.lrdata" file, forcing LR to rebuld the previews.

    Per Berntsen
    Community Expert
    Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2024

    This sounds like a defective monitor profile.

    Did you restart LrC after setting it to sRGB?

    Please post a screenshot of the Windows Color management dialog after having set the profile to sRGB.

     

     

    Also post a screenshot of the entire Lightroom window with an image open in Develop (not full screen mode), and make sure that the histogram is visible.

     

    Do not attach the screenshots, use the Insert Photos button in the toolbar to insert them directly in your post.

     

    Browneye1967
    Browneye1967Author
    Inspiring
    February 5, 2024

    LrC has been restarted and the computer rebooted numerous times.

     

    Windows Colur Management

     

    Screen grab of windowed LrC.

    If I go to Preferecnes and disable the Graphics Processor, the full screen picture in the Develop Module becomes the same colour as the filmstrip. 

    Per Berntsen
    Community Expert
    Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 5, 2024

    The only place to see the correct  colour is in the develop module full screen.

    So are the colors in the main image in your screenshot (which is not full screen) wrong, or are they correct?

     

    If I go to Preferecnes and disable the Graphics Processor, the full screen picture in the Develop Module becomes the same colour as the filmstrip.

    Do you mean that disabling the GPU leads to wrong colors everywhere in Develop?

     

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