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Octavio Campos Salles
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July 3, 2018
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LR Classic CC gross over saturation of images

  • July 3, 2018
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Yesterday when I opened LR or PS to edit photos from a recent trip I noticed that the colors displayed are grossly over saturated. They have a very noticeable reddish cast and very over saturated (specialy warm tones). When I compare two same images one outside LR and the other in it the difference is incredible.

I have restarted the computer, recalibrated the monitor with i1 from X-Rite and also tried to set sRGB as default color profile. Nothing works. Please what can I do??

Both LR and PS are updated and I'm running them on Windows 8.

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DdeGannes
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DdeGannesCommunity Expert
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July 4, 2018

It would help if you could share the original raw file from your camera. Also provide info about any special settings you have set in camera while capturing the image.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.
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Octavio Campos SallesAuthor
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July 4, 2018

It's not camera related. I think the problem's been solved, the profiles generated by my calibrator are corrupted. I will do some more tests and post here if I find out any new information.

Todd Shaner
Todd Shaner
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July 4, 2018

What model monitor and i1 display calibrator are you using? The older Eye 1 Display 1 and 2 pucks were designed for CCFL backlight displays and don't work properly with the new LED backlight displays.

Monitor calibration problem with eye-one display 2: Printers and Printing Forum: Digital Photography Review

You may be able to find a calibration profile at TFT Central for your monitor model that you can download and test. If it corrects the issue your calibrator is probably defective or incompatible with the monitor's backlight.

ICC Profiles and Monitor Settings Database - TFTCentral

    Per Berntsen
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    Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
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    July 3, 2018

    Please post a screenshot of the entire Lightroom window with an image in Develop, with the History panel, Histogram and the Basic panel visible and expanded, as well as a screenshot of the same image viewed outside Lightroom.

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    Octavio Campos SallesAuthor
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    July 3, 2018

    Here is the image as I see on LR, PS or any other color managed software. Very oversaturated colors. Below is the same image from my website, with correct colors (light orange, not glowing)

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    Tony_See
    Tony_See
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    July 5, 2018

    When you run the calibration, make sure to create a matrix based, version 2 profile.

    Table based and/or version 4 profiles can create problems.

    I haven't mentioned this before because you seemed to have the same problem with sRGB and Adobe RGB.

    Tony_See  wrote

    Are you using a colour management strategy or colour profiles actively in Photoshop?

    Have these got into your workflow between PS and LR? and embedded some profiles and in images that have produced the over-stauration?

    In a color managed workflow, embedded profiles don't need to match the working space, and workings spaces don't need to match between applications. Images will display correctly regardless.

    The only exception is viewing Adobe RGB images on a standard gamut monitor (which has roughly an sRGB gamut).

    If the image contains colors that cannot be reproduced in sRGB, they will be clipped to sRGB.


    Per Bersten wrote:

    In a color managed workflow, embedded profiles don't need to match the working space, and workings spaces don't need to match between applications. Images will display correctly regardless.

    The only exception is viewing Adobe RGB images on a standard gamut monitor (which has roughly an sRGB gamut).

    If the image contains colors that cannot be reproduced in sRGB, they will be clipped to sRGB.

    That may be the case but I would still subscribe to the idea that when two files contain miss-matched colour profiles, that journey to delivery platform can produce results that clip and shift colours.

    I read that the OP was seeing that above, hence my 2¢ worth.

    Whether or not we agree it includes such saturation shift is perhaps still yet to be determined here Per  .

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