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October 14, 2023
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P: Brighten the Histogram as LrC 13.0 histogram is much darker than LrC 12.5

  • October 14, 2023
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Lightroom Classic 13.0, macOS Ventura 13.6

 

New histogram look in develop module draws histogram in afancy stule with a line contour that envelops the histogram and stretches all the way from blacks to highlights. The line contour stretches the whole length of the histiogram all the time and this makes it impossible to see the real data distribution or where highlights or blacks need to be adjusted and how much of the range is left. The histogram view is basically useless. This fancy displaying is style over substance change and negates the reason to use histogram - please revert to old style histogram where empty areas are easy to see and there are no fancy line contours. Better yet - make your developers coming up with these fancy ideas to actually use the product themselves.

 

The clipping iundicators are no help either because I have a situation where clip indicator show no clipping yet when selected shows some small areas of clipping in image - see screenshot with clipping indicator shows no clipping in highlights yet when selected shows blown highlights on swans.
I had no issues using histogram in Lightroom Classic 12 and it was far more useful when presenting information to the user, please reinstate it!

54 replies

cantaluppi.photo
Inspiring
January 16, 2024

In LRC 13.1 the colors in the histogram can hardly be distinguished. For example the yellow curve is now almost green.

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 16, 2024

Yellow curve - ??

 

There is no yellow channel in RGB. There is a green channel.

 

Inspiring
December 19, 2023

If somebody high up on the food chain at Adobe has a strong personal affinity for the new histogram, is there any reason they (Adobe) can't just give us a switch to go between the V12 histogram - which was pretty good - and the V13 histogram - which was pretty awful and is now slightly less awful, but still not as good as the old one.  Simple option in the preferences...

I understand that every time a new version comes out Adobe has to change stuff that was working fine for years.  Sometimes, it's an actual improvement, but sometimes it "breaks" something that's been fine for a decade... 

Per Berntsen
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2023

The histogram in 13.1 is a big improvement, but yellow now displays as green with a slight yellow tint, very similar to green.

Magenta displays as a slightly magenta blue, and I haven't been able to identify cyan.

In the old histogram (version 12 and earlier) it was easy to identify these secondary colors.

 

Old histogram

 

13.0 histogram

 

13.1 histogram

Participant
December 16, 2023
Participant
December 16, 2023

I prefer the histogram as it is displayed in ACR.  

Participant
December 15, 2023

The features requested here have not been fully implemented. There are no histogram gridlines.

 

Please bring back the histogram gridlines. The current histogram is a step backwards in terms of usability.

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 14, 2023

Greetings all,

 

Updates for Adobe Photography products have been released.  The December updates have implemented this feature request.


If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

 

Thank you for your patience.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
ondrejb47127146
Inspiring
December 7, 2023

I like the old look from 12.5. much more, it was easier to use.

ondrejb47127146
Inspiring
December 7, 2023

Hello, I often find it difficult to work with the new histogram look in Lightroom Classic. It's harder to see slight color changes when I need to adjust the correct WB or compare colors between images in slightly changing conditions.
And sometimes it just looks messy like lines with color bars.

The older look was (in my opinion) simpler and easier to use when i needed to see small color differences.

 

 

Legend
December 7, 2023

I have no problem with it.

Participant
November 20, 2023

I also agree with the negative comments about how the new histogram is displayed.  It is dark and lacks contrast, and it is almost unreadable on my monitor.  Also the numbers under the histogram (ISO, focal lenght, aperture, and shutter speed) are hard to read.  The RGB numbers are very visible when the cursor is on the image.

 

The other panels on the right side of the develop module are ok for readability.  Please change the histogram back to its more visible presentation, or give us a option to choose the display format (old or new).