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Lightroom Auto Tone much warmer than Photoshop

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October 8, 2018
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When I Auto Tone in Lightroom For an interior with warm florescent lights it gives me 2850 but taking the same image in Photoshop with Auto color will give me around 2600.

I've noticed that Lightroom is consistently much warmer then Photoshop. Is there a reason behind this?

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Correct answer D Fosse

Akash, you should really stop posting those links. They are wrong, and they are misleading. I have no idea why Scott Kelby doesn't know better; he really should.

So to be perfectly clear:

there is no reason whatsoever Lightroom and Photoshop color settings need to "match".
the Lightroom native color space is not ProPhoto. That's just an arbitrary export to Photoshop default, because there has to be some default.
Lightroom's native color space is a custom color space with linear tone response curve. It does not exist, nor has it any equivalent, outside Lightroom.
as per the above, Lightroom and Photoshop color spaces cannot ever match, and nor should they.
color managed applications like Lr and PS are color managed, and will display correctly whatever color space is used.

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mk29376512

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There is a point raised in this that I agree with, lightroom AWB is waaay too warm. Adobe is there any chance you could please improve this, the algorithm is definitely not working well.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

I am not sure the issue you are raising will get the attention you are seeking, first the thread raised 20 months ago and the Lightroom application has had several updates and a new profile system has been introduced, second the thread has been marked as ”answered” and will not attract the attention of many users.

Best to start a new thread with an appropriate heading and full info about the issue. Also particulars of your operating system and the actual version of Lightroom Classic you are using. The present version of LrC is 9.3.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

Akash Sharma

Legend

Hi sdinweoinasd9384152,

Sorry that you're getting unexpected color outputs in Photoshop vs Lightroom.

Please take a look at these articles and let us know if they help:

https://lightroomkillertips.com/keeping-your-color-consistent-between-lightroom-and-photoshop/ https://www.slrlounge.com/does-your-image-look-different-in-lightroom-photoshop/

https://www.slrlounge.com/does-your-image-look-different-in-lightroom-photoshop/

Thanks,

Akash

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sdinweoinasd9384152Author

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The problem is not the color space. The images look exactly the same in both software and I have the same embedded profile and color space.

I'm getting different Auto color balance results. Although I would still adjust manually afterward, doing an initial Auto helps to speed up the process, but having very big differences make it difficult if I don't always open the photo in both software to double check.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

I’m not sure I understand your workflow, or the problem. The thread title talks about Auto Tone, but because that does not alter the white balance, I assume you mean the Auto white balance option. You also say that you only use this as a starting point (“I still adjust manually afterwards”). So where does Photoshop fit in this workflow? Do you also open the raw images in Photoshop (Camera Raw)? Why? And why is a different Auto white balance in Camera Raw a problem if this is only a starting point anyway?

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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