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Monitor profile grey out photos in Lightroom

New Here ,
Feb 14, 2017 Feb 14, 2017

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Hi all,

I am a new user of Lightroom. I have this odd situation that when I import my NEF-files into Lightroom and then want to develop my pictures, that a grey film seem to cover my photo without any corrections made. It is visible when you turn on the Before/After Tool. Before looks much more grey than After.

I discovered that this occurs when my calibrated monitor profile is used. If I turn on my custom monitor profile Before and After look similar. I do not want to use this custom profile that came along with my computer. I want my screen calibrated so I can see what I am doing with my pictures. But I can't now in Lightroom. Photoshop Camera Raw is working perfectly fine.

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Community Expert , Feb 14, 2017 Feb 14, 2017

What I don't understand is why Lightroom uses a monitor profile instead of Adobe RGB for the Before feature?

Lightroom always uses the monitor profile, and it can also have problems with a profile that works fine with Photoshop.

A simple test to check if there is something wrong with the monitor profile is to set it to sRGB (or Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor) See http://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-change-my-monitor-profile-to-check-whether-its-corrupted/

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Feb 14, 2017 Feb 14, 2017

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Your calibrated profile is corrupted. Make a new one and test.

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Same thing when I calibrated yesterday (13 feb). Maybe my device is not working properly (i1 Display Pro).

Calibrating both my iMac and Macbook Pro with the same device...both this issue.

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Make sure that you are saving a version 2 icc profile when you run the calibration, and not version 4.

Version 4 profiles are not compatible with Lightroom.

I don't have the i1 Display Pro, but there should be an option somewhere to set the profile version.

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I am always using Version 2 so got that covered. Here are some of my settings in i1Profiler...

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What I don't understand is why Lightroom uses a monitor profile instead of Adobe RGB for the Before feature? iMac is a medio 2011 monitor.

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What I don't understand is why Lightroom uses a monitor profile instead of Adobe RGB for the Before feature?

Lightroom always uses the monitor profile, and it can also have problems with a profile that works fine with Photoshop.

A simple test to check if there is something wrong with the monitor profile is to set it to sRGB (or Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor) See http://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-change-my-monitor-profile-to-check-whether-its-...

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I would suggest that you turn off ADC in the profiler software and re-profile your monitor.

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Try this: Go into Preferences>Performance and uncheck Use Graphic Processor. Any better?

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

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