• Welcome to the Lightroom Queen Forums! We're a friendly bunch, so please feel free to register and join in the conversation. If you're not familiar with forums, you'll find step by step instructions on how to post your first thread under Help at the bottom of the page. You're also welcome to download our free Lightroom Quick Start eBooks and explore our other FAQ resources.
  • Stop struggling with Lightroom! There's no need to spend hours hunting for the answers to your Lightroom Classic questions. All the information you need is in Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ!

    To help you get started, there's a series of easy tutorials to guide you through a simple workflow. As you grow in confidence, the book switches to a conversational FAQ format, so you can quickly find answers to advanced questions. And better still, the eBooks are updated for every release, so it's always up to date.

Problem with Lightroom automatically choosing Camera Profile

Status
Not open for further replies.
D

danielduoeduardo

New Member
Joined
Feb 16, 2020
Messages
2
Lightroom Version Number
Lightroom CC
Operating System
  1. Windows 10
How's it going guys? Z6 user here. Recently reinstalled Lightroom and got a strange behavior which I need help.

Basically, I used to take pictures in RAW, using the B&W picture control on my camera (I like to use it in order to better view the light). Being a RAW file, whenever I imported it to Lightroom, I got the full color version and simply went on with my workflow.

After I reinstalled Lightroom in a new computer, this behavior changed, and Lightroom is keeping my camera profile as the default profile, and I have to change it back to a color profile for each file separately, which is quite time consuming. Now, I never configured the first behavior, so I always treated it as the norm. Tried searching for a configuration that would save me from the manual work, but couldn't. Can you guys give me any pointers?

Thanks in advance!
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
I assume you are using Lightroom Classic version 9.2? (Your version label says "Lightroom CC" which does not officially exist any longer.) If so, there is a new method of managing RAW defaults. Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Presets and look at the "Raw Defaults" section. It sounds as though yours is set to "Camera Settings". Change it to "Adobe Default", or use "Preset" to set it to some other setting of your own choosing.

See What's New in Lightroom Classic 9.2 for more details.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
I'm so sorry, I am indeed on Lightroom Classic. However, when I go to that section, all I see are buttons that redefine default configurations, nothing related to camera profiles. I uploaded a screenshot to show you what I mean (my lightroom is configured in portuguese, sorry about that). None of the options look like they do what I need, I click them and basically the configs are reset, but I never changed them anyway... Any ideas?
 

Attachments

  • LR.png
    LR.png
    30.8 KB · Views: 153
Upvote 0 Downvote
Your screenshot doesn't look like the latest version of Lightroom (9.2). Could you check the version you are using? (See the "What's new" link in my previous post to see a screenshot of what the new Preferences -> Presets tab should look like.)

If you have NOT changed to the latest version, then I don't know why the behaviour of Lightroom might have changed for you. Maybe someone else has some ideas?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Yes, prbimages seems to have it right. In 9.2, you get a choice of what to use for the defaults in preferences. In earlier versions, the Nikon Z6 writes its own settings to the files and Lightroom reads them, but you were probably applying a preset on import that was overriding it, or something along those lines. Update to 9.2 and you can set your own choice.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top