Lightroom Help

[Lugztaz]

I'm not exactly sure what is happening here but take a look.

When I first select an image, Lightroom starts to render it and once it is done the color changes quite a bit, as you can see. I'd like to start my editing from the left image, not the yellow one on the right. Why is it doing this?

 

[absolute_zero]

lightroom did this for me too, until i calibrated my monitor (trashed the default color management settings, and made my calibration the default). i think it is adobe managing the color settings (in this case overriding the rendering intent) within lightroom--and you're essentially watching the conversion from win7 environment to adobe environment as the preview is rendered.

also, when i was sorting through my situation this was very helpful.

 

[Lugztaz]

I'll have to take a look, is there anything else it could be that I can try while I'm at it?

 

[absolute_zero]

disable/remove adobe gamma loader (not sure if this is included with lightroom - it is with photoshop) if you're calibrating with a colorimeter--which, if you aren't, i would recommend.

 

[BB Gun]

From what I have read, for RAW files, adobe has a number of auto settings its set up for each different camera with camera profiles. Not sure how to change the defaults, but once I figured out what was happening on my 50D's files, I stopped caring 'cause I just set it to what I like anyway.

On mine, it automatically upped the brightness to 50, upped the contrast to 25 and increased the blacks to, I think, 6. It made the images MUCH too contrasty and it caused the loss of a lot of detail in the dark areas of images.

BB

 

[staticlag]

If they are RAW files then you need to understand how RAW files work.

RAW files are a collection of data from the sensors that has not yet been assimilated, thats just what it is RAW data. When you import RAW files into a program the color temp recorded by the camera's sensor is applied to the captured raw image, the camera's guesstimated exposure is made, and several other brightness, saturation and sharpening settings. When you make a JPEG this is all done in camera, but you can alter this with the easy style color/sharpness schemes in the camera menu "landscape, neutral, etc"

Lightroom makes this transparent to the end-user because Adobe states that their mission is to simplify the technical side of photography to let photographers concentrate more on their art. This is why color-profiling is user transparent in Lightroom as well, because those are two really hardcore aspects of photography: RAW importation and printing/profile tagging/conversion

Each program that has RAW importation will create a different image based on the RAW data and some of their built in settings. I believe you can turn this off in Lightroom

 

[staticlag]

Did you have manual white balance or some crazy white balance set for the picture when you took it? B/C it looks like you had your white balance set to fluorescent and Lightroom is correcting based on the camera "as shot" settings.

Try switching to "Default" white balance or Incandescent

 

[Lugztaz]

Did you have manual white balance or some crazy white balance set for the picture when you took it? B/C it looks like you had your white balance set to fluorescent and Lightroom is correcting based on the camera "as shot" settings.

Try switching to "Default" white balance or Incandescent

I use Auto White Balance, I guess that's something I should get away from.

It sort of sounds like I'll just have to go in and manually fix each image?

I'm not sure how I can go about uninstalling AdobeGamma or even stopping it on boot. It's not in the startup folder or in the startup list under msconfig.

EDIT: It seems that Auto White Balance inside of Lightroom is helping me get these back to "real life". Gets me to a much better point that I can make smaller adjustments.