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Am I doing something wrong?

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Greatone123

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Ok there has to be something wrong I'm doing, I'm horribly new to lightroom 3 I've had it a while just never used it. Well I took a few shots for a friend and I'm working on them. In LR the picture looks one way, when I export them it looks different.

It could honestly be something simple that most of you would never have issues with, but I'm new to the photo thing and I'm trying to learn what I can.

The center image is in LR3, and the side images are TIFF and JPG exports the main thing I'm focusing on is her face, the exports are grainy and LR isn't. I'm basically just trying to salvage what I can so the images don't look completely horrible.

Of course also the fact that I took this screen shot and it kept everything says it has to be something with the exporting...

 
Check your output sharpening settings and also the resolution; is windows photo viewer resizing the image in those shots?
 
Without actually being able to see the photo (work firewall), make sure that you edit and export your imagaes in the same color profile (be it AdobeRGB, sRGB or whatever else).
 
The photo viewer is resizing to fit the screen, just like LR I haven't adjusted the image size yet all are still the original 16MP dimensions. I'll check the sharpening settings when I get home in the AM.


There are 3 color options sRGB, AdobeRBG, and PhotoPro I think. I tried exporting in all 3 saw a few differences but none effecting the smooth/grainy/noise of the image.
 
The solution is the color profile. If you leave it at the default color profile, remember to overcompensate for the change in colors that will occur when you export.

I leave it default, but i've come to expect and like the effect upon exporting, so I learn to work around it.
 
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