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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Rob Reiter on September 01, 2024, 02:46:21 pm

Title: Pictures in Lightroom appear darker than in Photoshop
Post by: Rob Reiter on September 01, 2024, 02:46:21 pm

My monitor is calibrated and I print with custom paper profiles and get a very good match from screen to print, but images in Lightroom appear darker and more saturated than when opened in Photoshop. Is there setting in Lightroom I'm missing?

iMac Pro, MacOS 11.7.1, Lightroom Classic ver. 12.5.1, Photoshop ver. 24.7.4

Title: Re: Pictures in Lightroom appear darker than in Photoshop
Post by: digitaldog on September 01, 2024, 03:47:08 pm

First, the preview architecture in Develop is unique to all other modules and the most accurate preview of the data. You should always view previews there and elsewhere at 1:1 or greater and when comparing, use the same zoom for each. 
It is normal to see slight differences at 1:1 but if really excessive, the first thing to try is to disable GPU in preferences; better? If not, you might have a corrupted display profile. Recalibrate the display or whatever you usually do to create a display profile. When given the option to build this profile, pick Version 2 (not V4) and Matrix not LUT. As to viewing Develop module and Library and outside of LR, it helps to soft proof in Develop using the same profile used in Library (Adobe RGB (1998)) OR the profile selected in Export for the edited image.