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We are  a  professional imaging organization,  photoshop and lightroom experts (well, at least to our clients we are ..LOL)     We have been battling two very troublesome problems they seem to have been present in every version of LR3 we've used and its getting to the point where its costing us a lot of time so we'de like to address  it if we can.    I suspect its in the  code,  but perhaps its something more obvious...
For starters, here is our workflow:   1>  Import to DNG,  2 > Adjust  3>  Export as PSD ProphotoRGB    
We then do our creative work on the images and  use layered PSD files for our intermediate archives (DNG are the originals as shot).  We use Photoshop to size, sharpen and export to final sized JPG  for agency submission.  
That said,
Problem #1>    When we  open the PSD files in photoshop (after exporting from LR3)   they are ALWAYS  dimmer, in fact,  we have to go into levels on each and every image and bring the far right slider over to where the  histogram curve starts so that we can recover the luminance.  In other words, if you are looking at the levels histogram in Photoshop,  there is a flat spot on the right hand side.  We end up moving the slider over to pick up the low edge of the "bell curve".      In some cases, this flat spot is severe.       NOT GOOD, we lose shadow detail doing this and quite honestly its  real PITA in terms of time wasted.   
We notice in general, that even within the same color space, images do not look the same in Photoshop as they did in Lightroom.    That is an issue, they should at least look very close.  
Problem #2>   When applying an Auto Tone (in develop)  to an image initially  we understand what its doing - setting white and black points -   but in just about  every case,  it applies WAY TOO MUCH contrast.   Again, we always have to slide the contrast slider over  to bring it within our tastes.    We wrote a preset to zero the contrast  but we should not have to do that ?   Is there a way of shutting the contrast off in Auto Tone ?    Its very annoying...
So anyway, we love LR3, but those two issues are severely limiting our workflow...     any ideas, hints or other suggestions ??
Thanks,
Mark

We notice in general, that even within the same color space, images do not look the same in Photoshop as they did in Lightroom. That is an issue, they should at least look very close.
I agree with Jeff. Other forum members who have posted with this issue have had a corrupt or incompatible monitor profile. Issues that can cause this are hard drive file corruption, defective calibration puck device, and using monitor calibration software that creates ICC v4 monitor profiles. LR has issues using ICC v4 profiles and it is suggested to always use ICC v2.

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