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Quality loss when opening a Lightroom photo in Photoshop

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
April 7, 2024
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I'm having an issue when opening a photo in Photoshop that I've worked on in Lightroom - loss of contrast, sharpness, and overall quality. I'm using the latest versions of Lightroom CC and Photoshop Beta. I had no issues with the previous photo I worked on in this session, and do the same thing I've always done - Photo > Edit in Photoshop. I've tried exporting a TIFF and a DNG and they're giving me the same issue, even though my Camera Raw settings match my Lightroom edits when I open it in Photoshop.

I've never tweaked color settings before so I'm not sure how to know if they match or not, but as I said, this happened in the middle of an editing session so nothing changed (as far as I can tell) from one image to the next.

Any help would be much appreciated!

macOS

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ian2711

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following this with interest, (without screen shots) and in the wrong board,

as with OP, new to PS and LR to an extent on/off user for many years (mainly off) - Discovering AI gen onthe noise reduction gave me great results in LR, but the image had grass distractions i foreground, like the OP 'edit in PS' option and performed some AI gen healing tool removal - which worked a treat. prefering to finish in LR I exported back to desktop in JPEG, TIF PNG, PND some refused to import, random messages of RAW transfer failure but sometimes not. when imported, quality matches the OP example - rubbish. no changes to colours/expos/contrast etc but so pixelated I cant print. viewed/edited only on mac pro 2017

watching OP with interest in thehope of a solution, I did print in PS and results are outstanding but cant fileimage in LR catalogue TIA

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

In your screen-clip you are not looking at the .ARW file that came from LrC.

How was the xxxx-2 document created and why?

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

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andrewzuberAuthor

Participant

In Lightroom I went to Photo > Edit in Photoshop. This is the file that opened. Helpful to see that they aren't the same file, as I hadn't noticed that! But I'm not sure why it's happening.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

You might want to reboot the whole machine and try again. Lightroom and Photoshop sometimes get out of sync for the open in thing. Also try exporting a tiff file from Lightroom and opening that in Photoshop and see if it also changes tonality. From your screenshot, the display in Lightroom is consistent with what is shown in the histogram. What does the histogram in Photoshop look like?

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Screenshots would be helpful. It is quite impossible for quality to actually get lowered by "open in Photoshop". You might be misled by a difference in scaling algorithm or lagging preview generation.

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andrewzuberAuthor

Participant

Here are two screenshots that show the difference after I've done my processing and then moved into Photoshop. I'm not sure if it makes a difference but the photos are on an external USB drive.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Are you talking about the difference mostly visible in the shadows? What you are seeing here is very typical for a problem with your monitor profile or a problem with the graphics card or graphics card driver. What are you using to calibrate the display? What monitor are you using? What are your preferences->Performance settings showing? Does it still show such a difference when you disable GPU acceleration there?

P.S> you are working in Ligtroom Classic not Lightroom Cloudy which this forum is for.

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