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October 21, 2017

P: Mobile (Android): Raw photos are being imported as black and white

  • October 21, 2017
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Hi. When I import RAW (*.RAF) photos into Lightroom CC (Android) directly from my Fujifilm X-T20 into Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet, they appera black and white. If I do the exact same on Samsung Galaxy S7 phone (Android), they are imported correctly (colour).

I made a screenshot. First picture (chronologically last one - smiling girlfriend) is imported using Phone. It is in colour everywhere. Two other pictures (chronologically first, cat on balcony and less smiling girlfriend) are imported using tablet, being incorrectly black and white.



More funny things:

1) When imported on tablet, they appear B/W only on tablet, after they sync also to the phone, they appear in colour

2) When I edit this badly imported photo in tablet, they will stay B/W forever, even on other devices

3) When I import pictures using phone, they appear in colour on Phone and also on tablet.

4) More sofisticated scenario - when I import pictures using Tablet (they appear B/W) and the open it in phone (in colour) and I make basic edits on tha phone like crope, exposure and so on... these changes sync between phone and tablet in a way that the picture is edited BUT still B/W on a tablet! 

This is so weird behaviour.

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29 replies

václavs44762695
Participant
February 7, 2020
Hi. I managed it to fix. I shooted in color, but was shown in B/W. Strange. However, it was ok to change the color profile to sRGB and then back to AdobeRGB (in my camera) and everything was fine, including the import.

Thanks.
deepakg1988
Inspiring
January 3, 2020
Hi Vašek,

Please send us the image file on which you are able to see this issue.
You can send this image file at LrAndroid-Feedback@adobe.com

Thank you
Deepak
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 30, 2019
Are you shooting in B&W mode in camera? The Nikon Z6 is an exception to the usual rules, in that Nikon themselves write Lightroom Settings with the files, which are then read on import. You can reset the files back to Adobe's defaults though, in order to get back to color.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
václavs44762695
Participant
December 29, 2019
Hi, facing the same issue now. Import from Nikon z6 using card reader. Lightroom updated, but all raws are b/w. Any edit doesn’t help. Apple photos app show them correctly in colors. Thanks
benjaminp71087265
Participant
December 31, 2017
Any update on this? Still an active issue (at least it is for me).
Inspiring
December 10, 2017
Another problem with the Fuji file. I don't know if it is linked but when I'm trying to export the photo after the post-processing done in LR mobile with my Oneplus 3T, the photo is in B&W. Any idea?
Participant
December 8, 2017
UPDATE: for any iOS users... you may be happy to hear that the images are imported in color and you only need to edit them in any way on Lightroom CC Mobile to restore the color instantly. Its still annoying but at least it has a possible use in urgent needs like mine. Hopefully the same goes for you all. You can see my specific iOS discussion here: 

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-cc-mobile-ios-raw-raf-importing-as-...
Participant
December 8, 2017
@5734194... I am on ios11.2 (iPad Pro 12.9" Gen 2 2017). I have used my Lightning to SDCard reader and imported all of my uncompressed RAF (Fuji X-T2) in color to the Photos app successfully. 
When I load Lightroom mobile, it shows them in color as well. But as soon as it imports to Lightroom, they become B&W with no option (that I can see) to change them back to color.

Im leaving on holiday with this setup in 4 days for a photo trek and urgently need a solution here. Please help!
lfhbento
Participant
December 4, 2017
@5734194 Yeah, it happens on iOS too. I've tried to reproduce again and some of the files that didn't work before started working, but some of them still were being imported as black and white.
Inspiring
December 4, 2017
I have the same issue on iOS. Images imported from the Fuji X-T2 show up as black and white in Lightroom mobile for the iPad but show up fine in the camera roll.