Color difference from LR to PS CC

I have the subscription for LR 5 & PS CC. When I send a photo from LR to PS for editing, the photo shows up lighter and more faded looking in PS than it was in LR. I need help to solve this problem. Thank you.

If you have a difference between Lr and PS, you have a defective monitor profile. Recalibrate, or if you don't have a calibrator use sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for now, until you can get your hands on one.
Choice of working color space doesn't matter. These applications are all fully color managed and whatever the source color space is, it gets properly converted to the monitor profile for display. Unless the profile is broken.
Here's how to load sRGB as default monitor profile in Windows (replacing the broken one):

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How can I make sure my photos are the same from my Mac to a pc.? I just opened up my disc to view my clients photos on a pc and the color is way off. I edited them using Lightroom on my Mac.

The usual method is to calibrate the monitors on both systems, preferably using the same calibration device & settings.

CS5 - Color difference between Photoshop and other programs

I'm running CS5.5 student edition on a brand new Asus Q500A laptop running Windows 8. i7 processor and a UMA graphics card.
I do not have calibration software; I'm using Calibrize for the moment and colors appear fairly true when browsing after calibration.
My problem is that overall colors in Photoshop appear more saturated than those in regular browser windows, particularly reds. I set up my computer to run the Win8 photos app and my desktop with Photoshop simultaneously and the color difference was immediately noticeable. I did a quick screen grab to show the difference; the inset photo is the one viewed in Win8's photos app, and the background is the exact same photo open in Photoshop.
This is the second install of this program. I originally installed it on a Dell Inspiron with a DuoCore processor (way out of spec, I know - that's why I upgraded!) and I seem to remember having this issue then, too. I found a way to correct it, but I don't remember how I fixed it and Photoshop is no longer on that machine so I can't look over my settings.
I have not changed the color profile in Photoshop. When installed it chose North America General Purpose 2 as default and I've left it there. I experimented with the other color profiles and while the color tone in Photoshop changes, there is still a difference when the image is viewed in another program.
Any help is much appreciated - I can't trust the program to handle color properly right now and until I can, I'm dead in the water.

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. When I view the image on another computer or my iPhone, the image views properly. It's my photography, from a tree in my back yard. I know how the image is supposed to look, and right now it doesn't look right in Photoshop.
On my previous machine, I am almost positive that it was saving as sRGB by default as well. I don't remember what color profile I was working in, but I know that I did not have a color profile/space error pop up on opening new images, nor do I have that problem on other images saved on that machine that I'm opening on the laptop.

ACR color difference with PS CS4

I tried a search and can't find a thread about what I'm seeing, so I'm posting in the hopes that others may be seeing the same thing.
I have PS CS4 and ACR 5.3 (latest patches) on a Windows XP Pro computer. I use Adobe RGB as my working space and profile my dual monitors with an Eye One Display2. I recently started experimenting with using ACR to edit tif files, but I noticed that while the image is loaded in the ACR window it looks quite different color wise than the Bridge thumbnail or within CS4 (after opening it as a smart object). The look in ACR is similar to what the same image looks like in CS4 with the ColorMatch profile assigned to the image (i.e. quite a bit brighter and lacking saturation).
Here's the weird things:
When I first open the tif image, it looks correct as long as the exclaimation mark is present on the preview window. Once the file is fully processed and that icon disappears the image color makes the dramatic change. If I then make no changes and simply open the image in CS4, then it's back to the original "correct" colors.
If I zoom in the ACR preview to 50% or higher, then the color difference is negligible if not entirely gone, but I can't edit an 8000x5000 without seeing the entire image.
Here's what I have tried:
Turned off all OpenGL features
Verified my monitor profile was being recognized by CS4
Ensured my color settings didn't get changed (preserve profiles is on, as well as ask on mismatch)
Tested them with an image that was a known mismatch and it asked what I should do as expected
I tried PS CS3 and ACR 4.x with the same result
Stripped out XMP metadata with Exiftool to see if that may have been an issue - it wasn't
I'm hoping someone else has an idea what is causing this or if it's a known issue. Any ideas or confirmation on what I'm seeing would be appreciated.
Craig

cssadobe wrote:
It doesn't matter which space is set, the display of the image is always the same in ACR.
Holy cow! If that's the case in your setup, you have a HUGE problem, Craig.
You should definitely see a big difference in the ACR preview when you set your ACR worflow options to ProPhoto RGB compared to either Adobe RGB or sRGB. If you don't, either your monitor is not accurately calibrated and profiled, or it's a lousy narrow-gamut monitor, or your color management is broken.
EDIT: It could be that the scan was not really made in ProPhoto RGB but was converted by the lab to that profile, in which case then, yes, you would see no difference because the true, original color space was and remains narrower and smaller than the lowest common denominator, which could well be anything, including Color Match or sRGB (and we all know what the s stands for in sRGB!).
cssadobe wrote:
Since PS CS4 created the tiff, the preview and the actual image data should be identical in my opinion. Would you agree with that? I don't know why PS would create a preview that was not identical in display characteristics to the actual image.
No, I would not agree with that. No reasonable person can expect a low-resolution, JPEG-like preview embedded in the TIFF to look identical to the TIFF. Information has to be discarded to generate the preview. But that's beyond the scope of ACR.
What I would expect is that ACR would render a better display from the original data in the TIFF than what the mediocre embedded preview can generate.
cssadobe wrote:
If I zoom in on the image in ACR to at least 50%, then the difference seems to disappear.
Well, duh! You only see the real image when you view it at 100%. The farther you get from 100%, the more information is either being discarded (at anything less than 100%) or made up, invented at greater than 100%. 50% is still not as good as 100%, but it's definitely better than the miserably low 8.7% view you were using when you made that last screen shot.
Seeing that you have severe problems with your display, as suggested by the first paragraph in this post, there seems to be no point in discussing in detail any of the discrepancies you mention, most especially at any other view that is not actual pixels (100%).
I'll have to read the thread again when I have the time to see if you have said when you calibrated your monitor last and how, what your color settings are, what monitors you're running, etc.
I validate the calibration on my monitors practically on a daily basis with a hardware calibrator puck.
But, ultimately, viewing a large scan at a dismal 8.7% you can't make any of the judgments you are trying to make.

Color Difference - Camera Raw & Nikon Raw NEF

Hello everybody
When i open a Nikon Raw file in Camera Raw (Photosop CC) I notice a distinct color-difference between the integrated preview image in the Raw file and the camera Raw standard.
I want to start with the exact same color how it came from the camera.
Refers to Nikon D300 or D800 in Raw / Nef format.
left, from Camera Raw 8.4.1 "Camera Raw Standard"
right, integrated preview from the original raw-file
Mostly i have the difference in Blue, it's too much cyan in there an looks not "natural"!
thanks for help

The third icon in from the right (looks like a camera) called camera calibrations is where the presets live that supposedly match that of your camera.
Even though you use those presets, you are not done. To match what you see in your camera, you must manually adjust the sliders under the basic tab until it does match.
What you see in your camera is a processed image, which is applied to a jpg only. The raw file is just that raw, no processing is done to it. Think of it as a negative. It is your permanent record of the image. Camera raw is then used to manually set up the image to your personal liking. Which does a better job the camera or yourself, is dependent on your skills. You can get details out of that raw file that the camera can not.
When you find you are placing the sliders in certain location more than once, then it is time to create a preset in camera raw that stores those settings. The more you use camera raw, more you can see when your own preset can be used (even as a starting point) and when it is time to do everything manually.
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I find this very odd, but now that I am using multiple program within the Creative Suite I am beginning to notice color differences. For instance, if I use hex: #200add in Photoshop it renders a different blue then in Illustrator or InDesign. Why is this? And how can I keep the colors consistent? It's not just with hex colors but with RGB/CYMK. Is there a way I can move my color specs from Photoshop to InDesign and Illustrator?
It's the same monitor, same file, same everything, but a different program renders a different color. I am also running CS5.5 on a iMac
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Hex color shifts appearance on screen depending on what source ICC profile is being used (or passed through to the monitor) and the monitor profile
in other words hex color on the monitor seems to be dependent on the profile (colorspace) it was set in and how different the monitor profile is from that profile (colorspace)
to keep it consistent in a Web browser, Convert your files to sRGB before setting a hex color before saving for web
acuracy is a different matter
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Editing HDR in Lightroom or stay in Photoshop? Color difference?

Once I merge files as HDR to photoshop from lightroom, I then set it to 32 bit. Then I can make all the edits in Adobe Camera Raw, after I hit save, it will then be in Lightroom as a .Tif file. But, what about if I merged to HDR in photoshop and didn't adjust anything with camera raw, and just hit save, then when I adjust it in lightroom, will it be the same? In other words, when I adjust it in Lightroom I know I'm adjusting a .tif file. Am I doing the same in photoshop or has it not became a .tif file yet?
Also, I noticed a massive color difference. I got the edit to look perfect in camera raw. I saved it, when I look at the lightroom version it doesn't look as clear, it looks like it has more saturation than I actually used, maybe even more clarity or sharpness as well. The colors aren't going together smoothly like on the camera raw version. What would I do to fix this?

My ACR 8.8 and LR5.7.1 HDR 32bit images look identical. This is probably due to your Camera Raw Preferences settings:
If set as above LR can't see your ACR settings. If set as below LR can see the ACR settings since they are saved in the TIFF metadata.
To see your LR settings in ACR you need to change your LR Catalog Settings. You can also set 'Automatically write changes into XMP, but I don't recommend that unless you also want to create XMP sidecars for all your raw file edits. You' can use CTRL +S key to save the LR Develop settings to the TIFF.

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Hi!
When I edit an image in Lightroom and then continue editing it in photoshop I see a major color difference.That also happens when I export an image from lightroom as a .jpg and then upload it to the web,colors look the same as in photoshop.Color space is set to sRGB in both PS and my monitor.
http://imgur.com/a/rxt1l

wooliudo wrote:
i'm asking it because it looks like your system's taking the wrong monitor profile, and it'll make a difference between color managed software like LR/PS, and unmanaged software like some browsers(IE before 9). And your PS color management setting seems wrong as well.
My suggestion is to try changing the working space to standard sRGB first and see if the difference disappears.
I changed it to standard sRGB and it's the same.
And as I said,the problem is not with photoshop,colors in PS are correct and they appear the same on the web but they are not displayed in lightroom correctly.
Also,B&W photos look more like sepia in LR.
http://imgur.com/a/r2Uyz
I should note that I had the same problem a few months ago and I solved it by changing color temperature in my monitor OSD from "warm" to sRGB but it's also sRGB now.
wooliudo wrote:
oh one more thing, make sure you haven't turn on "proof color" by mistake in PS. press ctrl+Y would toggle it.
It's off.

Lr vs CS3 color difference rendering on-screen

I edited an image in Lr1.1 and saved the metadata to file. When I view the same image in PS CS3/ACR there is a color difference. Skin tones are different. [Note: I have ProPhoto as the default CS3 RGB color space].
But wait... there's more.
Now when I export the image in Lr 1.1 (set to ProPhoto), that exported image when now imported and viewed in Lr 1.1 or PS CS3 look identical, and identical to the source/metadata file viewed in CS3.
What I see is that Lr1.1 metadata driven rendition is different from the same operation mechanized by PS CS3/ACR. The latter is identical to an export of the same data (to JPG/TIFF) by Lr 1.1.
What's going on?
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Lightroom uses perceptual rendering when drawing to the screen and hence if you actually have a monitor profile that exploits this, it will look different from Photoshop which always uses relative colorimetric plus the relatively hokey optional gamut compression.
If you are viewing images in any module other than Develop, then you need to be aware that the preview cache is generally stored in AdobeRGB (unless you turn the quality up to high) which means that colors outside the AdobeRGB gamut can get clipped to AdobeRGB before being clipped/mapped to the display which will generally result in different appearance than simply clipping/mapping ProPhotoRGB to the display. But this should only affect colors outside the AdobeRGB gamut.
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I'm kind of out of my league on color issues.
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He's telling me that if he prints the original front or back cover PDF
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When I open his front cover and the front cover from my PDF in
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Kenneth,
this is hardly an observable difference:
"RGB 243/203/70 in his original,RGB 243/203/71 in mine"
Downsampling should be switched off (instead of placing
by size 100% and using the old ppi value, that's just an
unnecessary complication).
The text by PhS was probably part of the raster image.
In such a case avoid any JPEG compression (e-book),
because this will change almost all colors just a little
even in large areas. Raster text will be garbled (your
observation).
"No Color Conversion and under Profile Inclusion Policy
I set Don't Include Profiles"
This is IMO correct for a reproduction, whatever
ingredients might be in the original page or in the PDF.
The only remaining sources for a color shift - visible
by comparing the two versions under the same test con-
ditions - are downsampling and JPEG compression, IMO.
Note: the question is not whether the two versions are
correct, but whether they are identical.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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Here's the scoop...
I'm experiencing color differences and sharpness of text and graphics - basically everything in video --- from one export to another.
In this circumstance, I screen cast Powerpoint with Camtasia. I export the video in Camtasia with these settings:
Quicktime - TechSmith Ensharpen Codec.
I import into Premiere, do my edits...then export H.264 Format --- with custom settings that match Camtasia Exports - frame rate, resolution...etc...
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I've compared in both Quicktime and VLC players
I've read that H.264 can produce color differences. I want an export that will maintain colors of Quicktime - TechSmith Ensharpen Codec at a data rate of around 1-2mbps. Have any suggestions?
Big Thanks

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Prior to posting, I forgot to mention I did adjust settings in GPU panel.
I've tested multiple computers now on various players (VLC, etc..), all with the same result --- the color difference exists on every computer. Final video's will be seen online, not a TV.
In light of this…what I've deducted is that - I still need to find an answer to my original question.
Is there an export that will maintain the quality and colors of Quicktime - TechSmith Ensharpen Codec at a data rate of around 1-2mbps?
Virtually none of the computers that people will be viewing these video's on are going to be color calibrated. It'd be comparable to the computers I've been testing on…
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Thanks again

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