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dawnm69349798
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December 6, 2016
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Monitor Calibration created issues with my lightroom coloring

  • December 6, 2016
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Hello - please help if you know anything about this.  I calibrated my computer screen, per the advice of others in a different group.  When I did this, the coloring in lightroom became extremely saturated and yellowish and it is very difficult to edit photos because the colors don't match my computer screen anymore.  Since this was so awkward and uncomfortable, I figured out how to remove the display profile I had created with the calibration, and restored my monitor settings to the original.  So, my monitor is restored and looks fine; however, lightroom didn't restore to original color settings and is still highly saturated.  I am unable to edit photos and I'm under some holiday deadlines.

Any idea how to restore lightroom?  I poked around on the internet and tried control-alt-R, and shift-control-alt, and nothing works.  I was told to restart and it should be restored, but it isn't.  Please help if you know how to correct this issue in LR.  I would really appreciate any help!

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    December 6, 2016

    Can you show us a screen capture of an example so we can see the problem? Since you say things are highly saturated, make sure the screen capture shows clearly the saturation slider.

    How did you calibrate your monitor? Exactly what hardware was used?

    dawnm69349798
    dawnm69349798Author
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    December 6, 2016

    Unfortunately, I'm at work right now, and am not near my home computer to show you these horrific results in my LR program.  What I can tell you is that it affects all photos in my LR catalogs, this includes all photos that have been edited and all that haven't.  It's just a "blanket" hue that is affecting LR in general. 

    I used color munki display to calibrate my monitor.  As I said above, I was able to restore my computer display so everything else that I view on my monitor is normal.  It's just LR that is "off".  There's just a yellowish tinge on everything within LR.

    dawnm69349798
    dawnm69349798Author
    Participating Frequently
    December 7, 2016

    So give us some more details.

    Can we see the History panel from Lightroom's Develop Module, so we can be sure no presets have been applied?

    Is the photo outside of Lightroom the unedited photo, or the exported and edited photo, or neither?

    Also, describe the workflow that you used to get to this point.

    Also, is the original photo RAW or JPG?


    Also - the image was a jpeg.  I haven't gotten around to shooting in RAW yet, but I think I'm going to start!!!

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