When editing a Lighroom 6 image in Photoshop, photoshop opens it much darker

[SRPcashie]

I am using standalone products lightroom 6 and Photoshop 6.  When I open an image from LR6 into PS6 it is always much darker.  Why? Which is right?  how do I fix???

[Jao vdL]

How are you calibrating your screen? What you are describing sometimes happens if the display profile is bad. It can also be a consequence of incorrect settings in the color management settings in Photoshop. It should be set to always respect embedded profiles.

[SRPcashie]

I calibrate with colormunki, all the time.  What would I need to do to fix this?

[Jao vdL]

Make sure you have it set to calibrate to a v2 matrix profile. Lightroom does not deal correctly with v4 LUT display profiles. Second, check your color settings in Photoshop. They should be set to respect all embedded profiles.

[SRPcashie]

How would I do both of those things?  Could you please explain?

[Jao vdL]

In the colormunki software, check the preferences. I found a tutorial here on where to look: https://www.damiensymonds.net/cal_CMD_pc.html  ​ The tutorial shows the correct settings for use with Lightroom: a v2 profile without a LUT.

For Photoshop, go into the edit menu and select color settings and make it look something like the screenshot below. The important thing is that the color management Policies are all set to preserve embedded profiles and that "desaturate monitor colors By" is not turned on. You can also choose the standard setting "North America General Purpose 2" from the popup. Never choose monitor color there as it guarantees your colors are incorrect.

If this doesn't fix it, it is likely a graphics card problem. Then try turning off graphics card acceleration for Photoshop in it's preferences panel in the performance tab.

[SRPcashie]

I forgot to say I'm on a brand new iMac (Retina 4k) running Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6, if that makes any difference.  Below are my photoshop and Colormunki settings.  Xrite sent me a whole tutorial on how to set it up.  ON my old computer while using the same software it never got darker opening a raw file from LR6 into Ps6

[Jao vdL]

Those settings look good indeed. You should probably set the icc version to 2 but it shouldn't matter much if you have the LUT unchecked and are using a v2.2 tone response curve. You should check in System Preferences->Displays->Color whether it is actually loading the correct profile. It sometimes doesn't automatically load it there. That could cause the issue.

The warning message about the camera raw version mismatch might be a problem. Does it make a difference if you select "render in Lightroom?" Have you updated your Photoshop fully? You should be able to get it to 9.12 and then you wouldn't need to see that error.

[SRPcashie]

I open it in PS6 to be able to make adjustments I'm not able to make in LR.  My PS6 says it's version 13.0.6 and my LR says 6.12 and also says Camera Raw 9.12.  But this never happened before on the old computer that was stolen.

[Jao vdL]

Ah you are using PS CS6 probably. That indeed cannot do a newer version of camera raw than 9.1 so you can’t update it to be compatible with LR 6 in the latest versions. This can definitely result in different rendering so you usually might want to “render using Lightroom” instead of choosing open anyway.

More importantly though, your new machine probably has a newer version of Mac OS X on it than your old computer and an old bug returned to it where some apps would render shadows wrong. I would make sure to update Lightroom to the latest version which is 6.13: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/10/lightroom-6-13-now-available.html <http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/10/lightroom-6-13-now-available.html> Also make sure your operating system is fully updated to Mac OS X 10.13.1.

[SRPcashie]

I also get this message, but I always have and nothing ever changed going from one software to the other.