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graceful_donut
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September 2, 2025
Question

Why do my RAW photo colors change after importing?

  • September 2, 2025
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In the attached screenshot, you can see the difference, the Fujifilm JPEG on the left shows the original color I expected (based on the recipe I used in-camera), but the RAW version on the right suddenly looks different after entering Develop mode even tho the White Balance is already set to "As Shot". Yesterday is normal.

 

Why are the colors of my RAW photos changing even tho i'm not changing anything? Even the photos I previously imported suddenly change when I select them in Develop mode. Honestly, somehow the new colors look better than my fujifilm recipe, but it's frustrating because it's also changing the color of photos I’ve already edited. And I actually prefer starting with the look from the Fujifilm recipe I used when shooting.

 

There’s no indication of any changes in the History panel either. Is this a bug, or did I accidentally press something? I’d really appreciate your help. Thank you.

 

I am very newbie, it's my second time using lightroom longer than one day since many years ago. So I very confused.

Windows 11, Lightroom Classic 13.0.1 Release. Build 202310121438-d2af310c, Camera RAW 16.0

Why I use 13.0.1? Because my laptop is 6 years old.

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dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
September 2, 2025

This is normal when Lightroom Classic imports a RAW photo, and in fact cannot be turned off. Lightroom Classic generates its own preview for any RAW that it imports based on its own algorithms and not based on the Fujifilm in-camera JPG algorithm. There is extremely little chance that the generated preview will exactly match the camera created JPG.

 

However, you can create a preset to use at import to make the photo appear more pleasing to you.

 

Or you can use "Camera Matching Profiles" to make the photo look more like what you see in the camera, although it will never match exactly. See https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/camera-matching-profiles-for-fujifilm/m-p/14911133#M381911

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    graceful_donutAuthor
    Participant
    September 2, 2025

    But yesterday and this morning, everything is fine, the color of the raw is exactly what i saw on my camera. It just happen today, in the afternoon in my local time. Why i confused? Because the the photo that i already edited is also changing into more blueish by itself after i select it on the develop mode.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    September 2, 2025

    Please forgive me, the answer I provided above wasn't correct as I didn't read carefully.

     

    If the colors seem to change from one point in time to another point in time, with no history step indicating that a change was made, one possibility is a corrupted monitor profile. See https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-change-my-monitor-profile-to-check-whether-its-corrupted/

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