If you’re having preview problems of any description, the monitor profile is a likely suspect, especially if you’ve recently upgraded your operating system or graphics card driver, or installed a new monitor. To rule out the monitor profile as the cause of the problem, you can temporarily replace it: Windows Close Lightroom. On Windows 7/10,… Click to continue
Why do my photos look different in Photoshop?
A mismatch in colors between Lightroom and Photoshop is usually due to either a corrupted or incompatible monitor profile or incorrect color space settings. For example, a ProPhoto RGB photo mistakenly rendered as sRGB will display as desaturated and flat. ProPhoto RGB photo correctly displayed as ProPhoto RGB: ProPhoto RGB photo incorrectly displayed as if… Click to continue
Why do photos in Lightroom have a yellow tint when they look fine elsewhere?
Strange colored previews that don’t match the exported photos in color managed programs are usually caused by a corrupted monitor profile. Lightroom uses the profile differently to other programs (perceptual rendering rather than relative colorimetric), so corruption in that part of the profile shows up in Lightroom even though it appears correct in other programs.… Click to continue
Which color space should I use?
Color management is a huge subject in its own right, so we won’t go into great detail here. If you’d like to learn more, Jeffrey Friedl wrote an excellent article on color spaces, which you will find at: http://www.lrq.me/friedl-colorspace In short, we’ve already said that photos are made up of pixels, which each have number… Click to continue
Why do my photos look different in Photoshop?
Excerpt from Adobe Lightroom 2 – The Missing FAQ Usually a mismatch in colors is due to either incorrect color profile settings or a corrupted monitor profile. For example, a ProPhoto RGB photo mistakenly rendered as sRGB will display as desaturated and flat. This is a ProPhoto RGB photo correctly displayed as ProPhoto RGB: This… Click to continue
Corrupted monitor profile
There’s an updated Lightroom 4 version of these instructions in the Knowledgebase. A corrupted monitor profile is often to blame for Lightroom preview issues, whether that be a mismatch in colours between programs, or simply blank grey previews. Lightroom uses the profile differently to other programs (perceptual rendering rather than relative colorimetric), so corruption… Click to continue