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Participating Frequently
April 17, 2017
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sudden color oversaturation in lightroom

  • April 17, 2017
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I have used Lightroom for several years without issues. I currently have Lightroom 6, and my monitor is calibrated with the Spyder 5 Express, on a Windows operating system. I recently had all of my pictures edited of a maternity photo shoot with my red headed niece. Everything looked great, all I had to do was one final look through on all of the pics before I exported them and gave them to her. Yet, when I opened Lightroom her hair looked orange. all of the colors were way oversaturated. Now every picture in my folders and on my old Lightroom 3 (which I still have on my desktop, but never used) are oversaturated and almost glowing in neon colors. I have updated Lightroom 6, I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it. I don't understand what happened? Please help?

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Beste Antwort von johnrellis

Here's a quick, easy, and reliable way to determine if the display profile is incompatible with LR: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-change-my-monitor-profile-to-check-whether-its-corrupted/ . Note that simply recalibrating won't identify the possibility that your calibration software has been configured to generate profiles that LR doesn't like.

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D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 18, 2017

Are you using more than one display? Like e.g. laptop + external?

The Spyder Express editions only support one profile for a single display. Maybe Lightroom uses the wrong profile.

johnrellis
johnrellisAntwort
Legend
April 18, 2017

Here's a quick, easy, and reliable way to determine if the display profile is incompatible with LR: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-change-my-monitor-profile-to-check-whether-its-corrupted/ . Note that simply recalibrating won't identify the possibility that your calibration software has been configured to generate profiles that LR doesn't like.

Sean McCormack
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 17, 2017

I'd redo the monitor calibration, just in case the profile has become corrupted.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
JP Hess
Inspiring
April 17, 2017

I'm not sure what you are comparing, because the catalogs for Lightroom 3 and Lightroom 6 are not compatible. What pictures are you looking at in the Lightroom 3 that are oversaturated? Are they the maternity pictures? They can't be the pictures that you have edited with Lightroom 6, at least in the Lightroom 6 catalog.

Participating Frequently
April 17, 2017

Very true, they are not compatible - sorry I left that information out. If I import any new pics into either Lightroom 3 or 6 they look this way. Also any pics that were already in Lightroom 3 or 6 now have this oversaturated look. I did not do another calibration because the pics look totally normal outside of lightroom. They only have this oversaturated glowing look in Lightroom.

Sean McCormack
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 18, 2017

Very few things use the monitor profile, which is why I made the suggestion.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.