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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: nemophoto on February 05, 2017, 12:41:46 pm

Title: Reference image does not match color
Post by: nemophoto on February 05, 2017, 12:41:46 pm

I'm working on a number of images for a catalog shoot I just finished. I decided to experiment with the Reference Image function. I worked on one image, then when finished, saved it as the reference image. I then opened another image and applied changes and looking at the Reference, I thought the skintone looked a little green, which I hadn't remembered. I decided to open the original image I worked on used as my Reference image, and sure enough, the Reference did have a greenish cast to the skintones while the original did not. Most of the other colors looked good.

Has anyone come across this issue or something similar?

Title: Re: Reference image does not match color
Post by: razrblck on February 06, 2017, 02:34:14 am

Are you using the sync function to apply the settings to all images? Make sure all settings are the same, especially the Camera Calibration ones.

Title: Re: Reference image does not match color
Post by: nemophoto on February 07, 2017, 10:35:25 am

There is nothing to sync. I'm dealing with a handful of final images selects. A custom camera profile calibration is applied to all images. But what was significant is that the image used for the Reference didn't match the actual skin tones of the same image when compared. (R vs A).

Title: Re: Reference image does not match color
Post by: Wayne Fox on February 08, 2017, 05:31:15 pm

in answer to your question, I don’t use reference image much, but I did take time to look at about 40 images set at reference side by side with themselves and can see no difference between the two.  This was a mix of landscapes and some portraits, skin tones all matched.

So not sure what is different ...

Title: Re: Reference image does not match color
Post by: pearlstreet on February 09, 2017, 06:46:28 pm

Nothing helpful to add...wanted to say I love your work, Nemo.

Title: Re: Reference image does not match color
Post by: Hoggy on February 10, 2017, 12:55:31 am

I don't notice anything like that here..

And I'm just spit-balling here..

But perhaps your display is going bad - and one side isn't as uniform??

Title: Re: Reference image does not match color
Post by: razrblck on February 10, 2017, 01:50:35 am

Try rebuilding image previews, the only thing I can think of is that you are looking at different image previews that don't have all the edits applied in the reference image view. If that doesn't fix it I don't know what it could be, I tried many photos as reference and have noticed no issues at all.

Maybe a rendering problem if you are using your video card acceleration?

Title: Re: Reference image does not match color
Post by: Wayne Fox on February 10, 2017, 10:40:23 am

I'm pretty sure the develop module does not utilize the prebuilt image previews.