P: Different colors in grid view versus detail view

[DewVinci]

The color of my photos is different in the grid view versus the detail view. Specifically, the grid view (and I think thumbnail strip, thought the size makes it hard to be sure) are flatter and less saturated. It seems as if color management is only being done in the detail view.

[Jeff R Davis]

I have the same issue on two systems with three displays. One is a Dell XPS 2720 (wide gamut color-calibrated Adobe RGB monitor running Windows 10). The other system is a Surface Laptop 3. I've seen this issue on Windows 10 and Windows 11 on this system, both with the laptop monitor (sRGB monitor) as well as with my ViewSonic VP2785 28" 4K monitor in color calibrated Display P3 mode. I've attached images from my Surface Laptop 3 displaying images on my ViewSonic monitor displaying a color swatch PNG to give an idea of the difference.

BTW, I've tried on my Surface Laptop 3 setup (internal and Viewsonic monitor) with and without color calibration using a SpyderPro X, but issue is the same.

Grid view:

Detail view:

[Todd Shaner]

Rikk, I just encountered this issue using Lightroom Desktop 4.3 on my Windows 10 Build 19041 system. I use a wide gamut NEC A272w monitor with an Nvidia Quadro P2000 GPU calibrated using SpectraView. The grid view images are over-saturated compared to the edit mode, which appears correct. LrC and PS have no color management issues. I also tried updating the graphics driver with no change and turning off the GPU. The issue remains.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

The original issue assigned to this post was fixed a number of years ago.  Is it possible to provide screenshots showing the grid (maximum thumbnail size) and the Edit view demonstrating the color difference?

Also provide current information on your OS Version Number, any monitor profiling,  and your display manufacturer and model number.

Thanks. 

[Jeff R Davis]

This is still not fixed after three years. Can you please address this? It is EXTREMELY annoying / workflow impacting to not be able to rely on color accuracy in an image editing app.

[DewVinci]

This still isn’t fixed in 3.0. This is one of the main reasons I no longer use Lightroom for editing. How can any photo editing app have this bug and not fix it?? If a photo app can’t do color correctly, what’s the point?

[DewVinci]

I'm surprised that this was not fixed in 2.4. This is a pretty serious usability issue, since it means I can't see the correct colors of a photo unless I open it.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

In the Edit view you are looking at the image in the Melissa RGB Color Space. Grid view images are in the DisplayP3 space. Some of what you are seeing is a modest difference in the color space. We do have an open issue regarding color correction in the Grid views.

[Jeff R Davis]

I noticed this as well. I have a wide color gamut monitor running Windows 10. The colors look flatter on the grid view than they do in the detail view. Really messes up my workflow.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hi I would like to mention this happens to me too. Not a wide gamut monitor (Does not reach Adobe RGB), but there is a clear difference between grid view and detail view. When I'm done with a batch of photos I look at grid view as an overview to make sure edits are consistent, then i feel like all the photos are not saturated enough and bump it up, only to realise it is oversaturated when exported. I would appreciate a setting maybe to set both views to the same colour space (why is it even different?).

[Jeff R Davis]

Thanks, Rikk - looking forward to seeing this addressed!

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

@todd_shaner_6660895  Yep - we've got a bug logged. Right now on Windows - the Grid isn't color managed. 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hello Team Adobe,

When do you plan to fix this grid view color correction issue? Basic color correction already exists in Photoshop and Lightroom Classic, so just wondering what technical limitations are preventing fix.  Please advise on timeline of fix.

[Lumigraphics]

The bigger question is why have different modules? Aperture got this right, Lightroom gets it completely wrong.

[Jeff R Davis]

Thanks for confirming, Rick. This is definitely a problem in my workflow. In grid view things look like a problem (I looked again and the colors are actually over saturated in grid view) so I go to try to fix the image, but then in details view I realize it was a false alarm. Really frustrating.

[Jered5FA8]

Editing photos in Detail View and noticed the same difference of bottom thumnail strip is color correct and the large active image is off color.  Exported image looks correct like thumbnail strip. Look at the background color. It is Green and is supposed to be grey. Just experienced this after updating to 2024.