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My exported photos are all converting to color from black and white after exporting them. Why?
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In your Export settings, what did you use for File Settings > Image Format?
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In Library, select the problem original photo and do Metadata > Save Metadata To File, which will save its develop settings to the .xmp sidecar. Then upload the original raw and its .xmp sidecar to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar and post the sharing link here. That will be the most efficient way of narrowing down where the problem is, rather than play twenty questions.
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"My exported photos are all converting to color from black and white after exporting them. Why?"
I just tried this on one of my B&W TREATMENTS and it exported B&W but with an sRGB colour space.
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The pics were shot in Black and white. Jpg format. When I export them with a watermark they convert to color???
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"The pics were shot in Black and white. Jpg format."
Select one, do Metadata > Save Metadata To File, then upload that .jpg original to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar and post the sharing link here.
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"The pics were shot in Black and white. Jpg format" As @GoldingD asks, make sure you are not shooting in RAW as well as JPG. RAW is coloured regardless of the camera settings which produce the JPG. The camera settings for B&W would be for the JPG.
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Are the original photos in camera RAW or JPEG?
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Lightroom cannot convert a B&W jpg to color. The only explanation I can think of is that you did not shoot in jpg, but in raw. You then imported these images with 'Embedded & sidecar' previews. That means that Lightroom is showing you the images using the camera-generated previews, and if your camera was set to B&W those previews will be B&W. When you export the images however, Lightroom will render a new jpg image from the raw data, and the default develop settings will be a color image.