Hi,
I'm having an issue with the way Lightroom reproduces the images. I have recently purchased a wide gamut monitor, an Eizo ColorEdge CS2420, which I hardware calibrated, so maybe that is the issue. Before that I was using my laptop screen and never saw color differences between Lightroom / Photoshop / inkjet print. Now I consistently see quite a huge difference in colors in Lightroom, while Photoshop still matches the print very closely. I have already turned off GPU processing in all applications, since by reading other posts I understood that it could lead to color differences between the programs.
Just for information, I develop in Lightroom, then open a .tiff copy in Photoshop for further edits, and finally soft proof and print the .tiff copy from Lightroom.
If anybody can help I would appreciate it. At the moment I'm very confused and thinking about soft proofing in Photoshop, since Lightroom is not reliable. But I would prefer to keep my old workflow.
Below the same image from Lightroom (top) and from Photoshop (bottom) (the one from Photoshop is correct as it closely matches the final print).
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When calibrating, make sure to set up Color Navigator to create a version 2.2 profile.
Lightroom is not compatible with version 4.2 profiles.
To set the profile version, start out by creating a new target. Highlight an existing target, and click Create a new target.
Go through the process until this screen appears, and click Customize profile. Then choose Version 2.2.
Having a separate monitor profile for web browsing shouldn't be necessary, and I can't really see that it would offer any advantage.
I also have an Eizo wide gamut monitor, and I have no problem with color in web browsers, as long as I use a color managed browser.
That means practically every browser, except Edge and Internet Explorer.
Firefox will in addition to being color managed also assign the sRGB profile to untagged images, provided it is set to Color management mode 1.
alephz wrote:
I read online that it is advisable to uncheck reflect black level in tone curve, which I am doing at the moment, always in order to minimize color differences. I'd like to know your opinion on the subject. The topic was not explained very clearly in Color Navigator's user manual.
I can't really comment on that, except I think it's been checked when I have calibrated.
In any case, it shouldn't make LR and PS display differently.
I'm using a profile with color gamut set to sRGB for everything except photo editing because otherwise the colors of Windows, such as icons, menus and so on, are otherwise very saturated, to the point that I find it difficult to look at the screen for long periods of time. I'm using Opera as a web browser and I can tell that with gamut set to native, colors of web pages are way too much saturated as well. So I find that setting the monitor to sRGB provides me with a better visual experience for browsing and normal usage of my PC.
I have a CX 240, which is also wide gamut, and I'm not seeing this.
Of course apps that aren't color managed will be more saturated, but not to the extent that it bothers me.
I also use the Opera browser, and most web pages look normal to me.
How exactly are you switching profiles? By using the buttons on the monitor, and going between Cal and sRGB?
To return to the original problem - when LR and PS display differently, it's usually because of a defective monitor profile, unless -
- you are using the monitor profile as a working space in PS (Edit > Color settings)
- have Proof preview turned on in PS
I noticed that the image from LR has a yellow cast.
Does the histogram also have a yellow or brownish cast in the gray areas, like this?
If it does, there is no doubt that the monitor profile is broken
I have a CX 240, which is also wide gamut, and I'm not seeing this.
Of course apps that aren't color managed will be more saturated, but not to the extent that it bothers me.
I also use the Opera browser, and most web pages look normal to me.
How exactly are you switching profiles? By using the buttons on the monitor, and going between Cal and sRGB?
I'm switching profile by using the contextual menu that appears when I click on the Color Navigator tray icon. I always stay in Cal mode. I would like to show you the increase in saturation in the Windows interface when using native gamut, but I could not find a way to do it 
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To return to the original problem - when LR and PS display differently, it's usually because of a defective monitor profile, unless -
- you are using the monitor profile as a working space in PS (Edit > Color settings)
- have Proof preview turned on in PS
I noticed that the image from LR has a yellow cast.
Does the histogram also have a yellow or brownish cast in the gray areas, like this?
If it does, there is no doubt that the monitor profile is broken
As I wrote, at the moment I'm not experiencing the issue anymore. After I removed Lightroom from the CC app, removed the thumbnail folder as well, and then re-installed it the color differences disappeared and have not shown up again. So I canot comment on the histogram having a yellow cast. I will make sure to post further information here in case the problem appears again. In any case I was not proofing in Lr nor Ps when the problem showed up and the working space of Ps is set to Adobe RGB. In theory I would agree that it can be the case of a corrupted profile, but then I cannot expalin why now I'm not seeing any color discrepancy between the programs anymore. Thanks for the help guys!
There's a Tone setting in the Advanced black&white dialog to control brightness.
Are you using the same setting as in Photoshop?
Interestingly, when I print the image to JPG from the print module in LR and open up the image in PS, is see exactly the brightess/contrast increase I see in the printed image (print adjustment of brightness and contrast is set to 0!!).
When I export it from LR (export function), and open up the image in PS, I do NOT see the brightness increas. It looks identical to the PSD file.
It seems like LR is tweaking the image even if all tweaking options are disabeled?!?
As seen in PS: The LR "print to JPG" is on the left, the LR "exported" image is on the right (which matches the original PSD file):
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