Color and contrast shift from LR to PS??

[Mary Louise Harris]

Hello! I've been using LR & PS on a single-monitor color-managed system for years, and I'm suddenly getting warmer, oversaturated and higher contrast images when I open files in PS CC 2019 from the desktop version of Lightroom CC 2015.14. I haven't changed my PS color settings, which are set to Adobe RGB color space and Preserve Embedded Profiles. The difference is still apparent when the edited image is saved and viewed in LR. See attached LR exports from DNG and edited TIF for comparison. (The shift is especially noticeable in the skin tones, hair and highlight values. It's also easily seen when comparing histograms in LR.) Also attached is a screen grab of my PS color settings dialogue. Does anyone know what is going on here?? Thanks in advance for the help!

ML

DNG ('original')

File opened and saved in PS

Color Settings

[Per Berntsen · Accepted solution]

Your Lightroom is several versions out of date, so the first thing to do is to upgrade to the latest version, which is Lightroom Classic 8.2.1. There was a change in the default camera profile in Camera Raw/Lightroom some time ago, and having matching versions of Camera Raw in Photoshop and Lightroom may fix the issue.

LR Classic 8.2.1 and PS 2019 both use Camera Raw version 11.2.1.

If the CC desktop app doesn't show an upgrade for Lightroom, try signing out, and then back in.

There is also a slight possibility that your OS (you seem to be on a Mac) doesn't support later versions of Lightroom, but being a Windows user, I don't really know.

[D Fosse]

I'd mark that as "correct", but not being a moderator I can't do that. So "helpful" will have to do...

[Mary Louise Harris]

Thank you Per, I've been wondering why my LR app didn't look any different despite regularly updating the software from my CC app. Now I realize that all this time I've been opening LR from a shortcut on my desktop instead of from CC, so I've just continued to use the old version! I'm upgrading my catalog now and will post an update when I'm able to test with LR Classic 8.2.1.

[Mary Louise Harris]

Hooray, success! It seems the mismatch between Camera Raw versions was the problem. I upgraded to LR Classic 8.2.1 and everything synced perfectly right away. I had assumed that the Adobe CC app would update/overwrite the application I was using via the shortcut on my desktop, but no! For anyone else searching this thread, the OS (I'm on OSX 10.12.6 Sierra) wasn't an issue. Thanks again, Per!