Photoshop and Lightroom much more saturated than rest of PC

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December 12, 2019
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Let´s see if I can explain what is going on

Whenever I edit in lightroom o PS and export an image, colors are less saturated and less bright.

Sent a tiff file to a friend that uses Mac, opens my image, export it and looks the same as my exported image, both tiff and exported jpeg.

So I guess both LR and PS are using different color profiles than rest of my PC.

Hope I´m making myself clear on this, sorry for my english.

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D Fosse

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No, but Lightroom and Photoshop support color management using icc profiles, which a lot of other applications don't.

It sounds like you are sending from Lightroom to Photoshop as ProPhoto RGB. The problem is that ProPhoto absolutely requires full, end-to-end color management to display correctly. Without color management, a ProPhoto file looks dull and desaturated, a little dark and slightly greenish.

I suggest first of all that you go into Lightroom Preferences > External Editing, and change the color space to sRGB.

A screenshot would make it a lot clearer.

Silvano SaltaAuthor

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Actually no, I'm sending from LR to PS in rgb.

There are no differences in color betwen photoshop and lightroom. This happens when exporting files on either programa.

On mi friends Mac it doesn't happen

D Fosse

Community Expert

that is the way it is set

There's no way to know what's going on with the minimal information you're giving us. What does "that's the way it is set" mean? Is it set to sRGB, or is it set to ProPhoto RGB?

Let's start with a side by side screenshot. Lightroom or Photoshop on one side; the "less saturated" version on the other. Don't crop the application interfaces, it's important to see which application displays what.

(and let's not confuse the issue with your friend's Mac. Let's keep that out of it).

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