Missing colour space during "Develop"?

[dimitrist25419410]

Hello all,

in the Develop module in Lightroom the colours appear as if the image is compressed, with low quality. But when I turn on the soft-proofing, the colours appear normal. Here's a video displaying this: Colour space issue? - YouTube

I have no experience with colour management so I can't figure out what changed and this started happening (recently). The only colour profile on my Macbook Air is "Color LCD" (with no other screen connected to the laptop).

I have read about colour management today and understand that lightroom is using the ProPhoto RGB colour space (profile?) for the Develop module while the soft-proofing happens on either sRGB or Adobe RGB colour profiles. However, I don't understand why my photos have recently started being displayed like that.

Running Lightroom 5.6 on a Macbook Air with the latest version of MacOS.

Thank you in advance for any help!

[Per Berntsen · Accepted solution]

First of all, update to the latest version, 5.7.1 from here: Adobe - Lightroom : For Macintosh : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7.1 : Thank You

If you have the same problem as described here Low lights sky problem in developpement mode , that might fix it.

If updating doesn't fix the problem, please post screenshots that illustrate the problem, it's impossible to make anything out of the video you posted.

[dimitrist25419410]

Thank you for taking the time for this.

Here are two screenshots, the first one being the "normal" in "Develop":

In the meantime, I will download the update and let you know if that helps!

Thanks a great deal!

[dimitrist25419410]

Fixed after the update.

Thank you very much for your help.

Just for the sake of knowledge, what is it that caused this issue that was fixed with this update?

Thank you ❤️

[Per Berntsen]

Glad you got it fixed.

There was a bug in LR5.6 for Mac that caused this.

And BTW, Proof preview's intended use is for printer profiles, so that you can get an idea of how an image will print using a particular profile.

[dimitrist25419410]

I am sharing my images online among friends or on Flickr. I understand I should use proof preview with the sRGB profile for that. Correct? Or not necessary to go through this process given the differences between Adobe space and sRGB?

[Per Berntsen]

You should only use proof preview for printing.

But it's important to use the sRGB profile when exporting - for images going on the web sRGB is a must.

Choose sRGB as Color space under File settings in the export dialog.

You should only export with other profiles (i.e. Adobe RGB) if someone specifically has requested that you use that profile.

ProPhoto is a special case, and you wouldn't normally use that for exporting.

[dimitrist25419410]

Great, that's how I export.

Thanks a lot!

[Jao vdL]

dimitrist25419410 wrote:

I am sharing my images online among friends or on Flickr. I understand I should use proof preview with the sRGB profile for that. Correct? Or not necessary to go through this process given the differences between Adobe space and sRGB?

There is no point in doing this if you don't calibrate your display. Soft proofing is only useful if your display is actually calibrated. Also, except in extreme cases with super saturated colors and when you are using a wide gamut display (definitely NOT the one on a Mac Book Air which is actually narrower than sRGB) will you see any difference between what you see in Lightroom and a sRGB export. This is because on your Mac everything is color managed and only colors outside of sRGB (which you can't see anyway on your display) will deviate when converting to sRGB.

[dimitrist25419410]

That's helpful, thank you!

There's no way I can calibrate my display now so I guess this is a problem for more "advanced" photographers

Thanks!

[natebphoto]

I had the same issue. Thanks this fixed it!