Lightroom changes Saturation of non-Raw files when importing

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December 26, 2022
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Dear comunity

When I import PNG's into Lightroom, they change in Saturation. It's not by a whole lot but it's enough that skintones are too desaturated and the lively look of a picture gets diminished. This can easily be corrected of course but I don't fancy paying for an Application and than having to go through 100s of pictures to get adjust them to their original color.

In my sample picture, the left hand is inside of lightroom after the import and the right hand is before the import (displayed using the standard preview app).

My Specs:

Lightroom Version 5.3

Macbook Pro (M1 Max)

thank you very much

macOS

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

In Preview check if the png file has a color profile (command-I) choose the little document icon tab or in (i) choose the general tab. Also make sure that Mac OS X Ventura has the latest update (13.1). They fixed some color management bugs that affect Lightroom.

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Marius21903338q57rAuthor

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The colorprofile seems to be normal to me.

I'm currently on Ventura 13.0.1, I will make sure to update it asap eventhough i'm under the impression this also happened before the release of Ventura.

I will report back on my findings.

Thank you for the suggestions.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

That is normal indeed. Another cause that somtimes influences image display is the fact that preview and Lightroom use different scaling algorithms when displaying images zoomed out. This affects images with a lot of noise like this one appears to have. Try zooming to 100% /1:1 in both and compare then. Usually the difference is not that large but it is also not uncommon.

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