4 Replies Latest reply: Dec 21, 2012 1:11 PM by PhotoGene47 RSS

    Black & White views where there should be color

    PhotoGene47 Community Member

      This is very wierd.  I have Lightroom 4.3 on a 64-Bit PC with Windows 8 Pro.   For the first time, I have experienced a vexing problem in Lightroom.  Last evening, I was editing some NEF files as part of a primary edit.  When I closed the program and backed up the catalogue, all was well.  When I opened the same folder today, they all were converted to B&W.  I looked in other folders and all seemed okay so I looked at the History panel of the photos.  It shows B&W Look 4 which looks like it could be a preset.  I can go to the prior entry and get rid of the B&W look but that is going to take quite some time with hundreds of views to correct.

       

      Does anyone know how this might happen and hot to quickly repair hundreds of images to the state prior to this preset?

       

      Thanks,

        • 1. Re: Black & White views where there should be color
          PhotoGene47 Community Member

          More information.  B&W Look 4 is what looks to be an Adobe preset.  I tried opening a backup cataglog and it loaded in color... but quickly, all the views were given the same preset.  There seems to be no way to stop it.  Why is this preset being automatically applied to my views when I have not even used presets lately? 

          • 2. Re: Black & White views where there should be color
            john beardsworth Community Member

            At some point you must have accidentally applied that preset. How many images are involved? After the step for that preset, do many of the images have other history steps? There are some ugly ways to step back with multiple images, but they're best avoided. So if your don't have many extra steps after the preset, you could just select all the images, switch on AutoSync, change all the images back to colour (V key) , then see if they look OK.

            • 3. Re: Black & White views where there should be color
              PhotoGene47 Community Member

              John, actually I did not apply any preset.  Upon opening from a backup, I watched each and every one of the images [every image in the NEF folder] being changed from color to the B&W preset as if by a ghost.  For some reason, the changes are being applied automatically.  I will try the V key to see if I can make the switch.  Thanks for that tip.

              • 4. Re: Black & White views where there should be color
                PhotoGene47 Community Member

                Actually, the V key seems to restore it to a "default" state which is not what is needed.  I performed the primary edits on most of the files and I do not want to start from scratch.  It seems my only recourse is to go to each file and click on the former history state and then save that state.  I still do not know how B&W Look 4 is being implemented but it does show up in Quick Develop after the file is converted.  This is strange and puzzling.