I just recently went from LR5 to LR6 over the weekend. Once I go to develop after the import is done in library, I click on a shot, at 1st it looks fine but then after a second, the shot is auto enhanced. It looks terrible, the contrast & saturation is way over the top. Why is this happening? I didn't change anything when I did the upgrade and it didn't do this in 5. It's ruining my shots, can anyone help???? Thanks!
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LR6 is auto enhancing my photos after import, why????
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Make sure you do not have Lightroom Edit> Preferences> Presets> Default develop settings> "Apply auto tone adjustments" selected.
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If you open one of the problem images in Develop, could you check the position of the sliders in the Basic panel? Apart from the WB sliders, all the others should be at the default "0" position. Are they?
Next, press and hold the shift key, and the "Reset" button bottom right will change to "Reset (Adobe)". Click on it. Does the image change back to the less saturated look that you expected?
Next, press and hold the shift key, and the "Reset" button bottom right will change to "Reset (Adobe)". Click on it. Does the image change back to the less saturated look that you expected?
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Are you shooting raw or JPEG? What camera model?
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I'm going to chime in with what seems to happening to me as well. I'm thinking it may be just what LR 6 does now and I'm just noticing. When I open in Library mode all is well (I create standard previews on import). Then when I go to develop module and click on a pic it loads ever so briefly and then the image changes to look very saturated and contrasty from the initial image. At first I was thinking LR was doing something so I checked all my settings and preferences and it seemed fine. Also tried steps above and there was no change. So my theory is that my eyes are tricking me because of what I'm seeing while file is loading even it ever so brief and what it looks like after loading. The difference is because it's applying the adobe standard profile in develop module I believe. All just speculation of course. It could actually be some sort of bug though because the colors seem to be much more saturated than I have ever seen, and while I used to be content with Adobe Standard I have had to make adjustments to these files before I can even begin to process them as usual. But like I said I may just be noticing because the change seems pretty drastic. For the record I'm shooting a lot of flowers with pinks and purples.
Good news is the load times are much faster and after upgrading my system I was truly hoping for that.
Good news is the load times are much faster and after upgrading my system I was truly hoping for that.
Hal I'm shooting raw. Canon 7d. KrisDan, yes that's exactly what's happening. It needs to stop because it's ruining my images and taking me forever to get them back to my liking without looking over processed. I mean what is the point of having auto tone unchecked if it's going to do it to the shot anyway. This was not happening in lr5 for me.
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JK1420 I may be mistaken but I didn't seem to notice this before the slight update right before cc2015 came out. I didn't think anything of that update but I took photos the day before that I didn't notice this on? I could possibly be that I just didn't notice before though. I'm shooting raw as well and even went to make sure my camera settings weren't changed somehow to jpeg/raw and they weren't. Nikon d7000.
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Could you post some screenshots showing the difference between the pre- and post-upgrade images?
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This is the problem Jim Wilde. For me it is just a brief loading image that I can't capture but I can put what the raw photo looks like after this color seems to 'pop' in. So a raw file that has only loaded into the develop module with no presets or adjustments by me and the adobe standard camera profile. The purple flower is actually unusable. So I tried to look back and I wasn't shooting a lot of pinks and purples and it does seem that others "pop" in in the develop module. So it may just be a coincidence on the timing. I am calibrated and just did that so I don't think it's a monitor issue.
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Without seeing a direct side-by-side screenshot of an image opened into both LR5 and LR6, it's difficult to comment. I've just done that on my own system, and I can't see any difference between the two images. So whatever the problem that you're seeing, it isn't widespread (not surprising, as there would have been lots of similar posts ever since LR6 was released, and there haven't been). Perhaps it might help if one or both of you were to upload a raw image (e.g. to Dropbox) which you know appears different in LR5 versus LR6. If you share the link, we can download the files and do a comparison test to see if we can figure out what's going on.
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Sorry if I misled you Jim, I'm not sure if the switch happened with the upgrade from 5 to 6 or not. It's just that I noticed it after. Looking back at old stuff it all seems to load that way in the dev. module so I'm thinking I just haven't shot these particular colors so intensely and it's popping out at me because of the way it loads. I really don't know. Could be so many things. But it is interesting the JK1420 is seeing something quite similar. Do you agree that the flowers are oversaturated?
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So I just did some sleuthing on my own system, and it would appear that for me it's entirely a user problem.
Apparently somewhere along the line I changed from camera standard to adobe standard and hadn't shot enough of the colors (red, purple) to notice how oversaturated things look. Recently doing many flower photos and just in the past week those colors is when I've really noticed the problem. So I looked back at some that didn't seem to have that problem that were in those types of colors and sure enough my setting was camera standard. I know I can tweak the settings for adobe standard but it seems pretty harsh right out of the gate and kind of weird I never noticed it before. I'm sure I changed it for a good reason but can't seem to remember why. I'll just change it back now. Oh well.
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Adobe Standard
Camera Standard:
Apparently somewhere along the line I changed from camera standard to adobe standard and hadn't shot enough of the colors (red, purple) to notice how oversaturated things look. Recently doing many flower photos and just in the past week those colors is when I've really noticed the problem. So I looked back at some that didn't seem to have that problem that were in those types of colors and sure enough my setting was camera standard. I know I can tweak the settings for adobe standard but it seems pretty harsh right out of the gate and kind of weird I never noticed it before. I'm sure I changed it for a good reason but can't seem to remember why. I'll just change it back now. Oh well.Here is what I'm seeing:
Adobe Standard
Camera Standard:
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See here for instructions regarding screenshots.
We'll cross the Dropbox (or other method) bridge when we've got a better idea what we're dealing with.
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KrisDan Good point. I've noticed that new versions of LR often fall back to "Adobe Standard" when my Preference is "Camera Neutral". I can't remember if I had to set new defaults when I upgraded from LR5.x to LR6 But I know it is an annoying inconvenience that I had to do in the past.
JKI420 Here are instructions go taking and posting screen shots
How to take a "screenshot" on Windows or Mac computers
How attach a "screenshot" to a forum post
If you aren't a user of DropBox, there are other file sharing methods. If you do have Dropbox set up, then you add the file to your DropBox Public Folder and share the public link to it with anyone that you want to down load the file. Another simple solution is a public file sharing site https://www.wetransfer.com is one than many here use to share LR question files.
JKI420 Here are instructions go taking and posting screen shots
How to take a "screenshot" on Windows or Mac computers
How attach a "screenshot" to a forum post
If you aren't a user of DropBox, there are other file sharing methods. If you do have Dropbox set up, then you add the file to your DropBox Public Folder and share the public link to it with anyone that you want to down load the file. Another simple solution is a public file sharing site https://www.wetransfer.com is one than many here use to share LR question files.
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Ok, so I am confused krisdan. Where are you seeing adobe standard at in LR? And where would I see what preference is? Am i going to have to change something in camera or in LR to fix this issue.So I just did some sleuthing on my own system, and it would appear that for me it's entirely a user problem.
Here is what I'm seeing:
Adobe Standard
Camera Standard:
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