4 Replies Latest reply: Aug 2, 2007 10:39 PM by (James_Cleere) RSS

    Export in 1.1 is MUCH brighter

    hrh gracie Community Member
      In LR 1.1 I can take a jpeg, .psd, or raw file and color correct it. BUT, when I do an export to a jpeg the images are significantly brighter. No color shift, but brighter.

      Viewing the exported images in any tool I've tried shows the same significant brightness difference.

      Irfanview, the default jpeg viewer on windows, EVEN importing the image back into LR 1.1 its significantly brighter.

      Is this a built-in feature I missed? Some adjustment I don't know about? Or is there a problem?
        • 1. Re: Export in 1.1 is MUCH brighter
          hrh gracie Community Member
          I MAY have answered my own question....

          I installed CS3 and tried doing the same open/camera raw/process to get jpeg output. And THEY were also VERY bright when I brought them back into CS3 Bridge. So LR and CS3 are doing the same thing. So I opened a RAW into PS CS3 and saved it as a jpeg. Brought it back into Bridge and it was ALSO very bright.

          Went back and did the same thing in CS2 and everything was good. No VERY bright jpegs. Brought one of the jpegs created with CS2 into CS3 Bridge and it was VERY bright.

          And on and on with a lot of fiddling and trying to find some setting that'd be causing the odd behavior. FINALLY, by dumb luck I stumbled on the preference that does the "Apply auto tone adjustments", which was turned on. When I turned it off, suddenly all my VERY bright jpegs returned to looking like the original RAW they were generated from...... SO, that APPEARS anecdotally to be what was messing me up in Bridge......

          So now my question is if I"m in LR and I go through develop and an image looks the way I want it, is there SOMETHING I need to set in LR so when I do the export it doesn't change the jpeg? OR, is there something I need to set so LR doesn't change the jpeg when I synchronize the folder and bring the newly exported jpegs back into the LR catalog?
          • 2. Re: Export in 1.1 is MUCH brighter
            Lee Jay-7OQGJF Community Member
            Edit - preferences - presets - apply auto tone adjustments - UNcheck.
            • 3. Re: Export in 1.1 is MUCH brighter
              hrh gracie Community Member
              Good grief... As usual, once I know what it is, its easy......
              • 4. Re: Export in 1.1 is MUCH brighter
                I'm getting the same problem - exported files look way brighter than they do in LR. I don't have the auto tone adjustments checked so it can't be that. Any other solutions? Get the same problem whether I export as TIFF, JPEG, when using the Web Module and when Printing! The only way to see the photos outside of LR with the correct LR adjustments is by saving a slideshow as a pdf, which is far from ideal!