White balance off in some preview pics?

[terol32598001]

Hi!

I have recently noticed, that in LR some of the preview pics turn blueish, like their white balance was somehow off. When I select a photo, it sometimes changes the image in preview, sometimes not. Sometimes the preview pic turns to normal when I select the next photo.

Any idea why this could be?

[DdeGannes]

I suspect that this is a Color Management issue, if your monitor has not been profiled & calibrated, using a hardware device, then it is possible it can display the preview differently than the rendered raw file.

The preview file is in AdobeRGB color space and the rendered raw file is a variant of ProPhotoRGB so its possible for the monitor to have a difference.

[terol32598001]

Hi! Thanks for your comment.

I have calibrated my monitor using my Spyder 4 -calibrating device. And this has only occurred after the latest update of the LR CC, never had this issue before. But yes, I feel it could be something to do with the colour management...

I took a closer look at the issue and it seems this only happens when I am in Develop -module, not for instance in Library -module. I don't know if this helps anyone figure out what's going on...

[Per Berntsen]

Library and Develop do use different internal working spaces, but images should still display identically.

When they don't, it's usually caused by a defective or incompatible monitor profile.

Version 4 icc profiles are incompatible with Lightroom - if you used version 4 for calibration, recalibrate, and set the calibration program to use version 2.

[terol32598001]

Ok, now that I think about it, this might have started around my previous calibration too...

But I don't know how the change the calibration version. I have made a question to Datacolor about that, though.

[Per Berntsen]

I don't use a Spyder, so I can't tell you where to find it, but the option should be available somewhere in the calibration process, or it might be a setting in preferences.

In Eizo's Color Navigator, it looks like this:

[Jao vdL]

It's a setting in the spyder app's preferences. Change it before you calibrate. It defaults to v4 I believe but if I remember correctly from when I used that calibrator it really is a v2 profile in a v4 wrapper and it should work correctly either way.

[terol32598001]

Thanks!

I can't find any version change option in the preferences. I'll see what Datacolor answers.

[terol32598001]

But definitely the issue is with the color profile. I changed the profile from Mac's display settings and the issue disappeared. Too bad I couldn't find any other usable profile either...

[Per Berntsen]

You can temporarily set the monitor profile to sRGB (or Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor), which will be good enough until you find out how to calibrate with a version 2 profile.

See http://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-change-my-monitor-profile-to-check-whether-its-...

[terol32598001]

I tried to calibrate my display again with Spyder 4 and by some miracle, the profile works again as usual! I don't know why though. Maybe it was LR's latest update or what, but after installing it and then re-calibrating the display the issue of "blueish" preview images is gone.