Colour spots in develop

in develop in lightroom 5. some of my images have colour spots, for example a photo with the moon in the corner shows good in the navigator screen but the main working screen shows a red mark in place of the moon. any ideas?
other images of the moon with black surround, when enhanced/white balanced, turns alot of the black a bright blue from the outer edge in.
i have a Mac.

You have your Highlight and Shadow clipping warnings turned on. Hit the J key to turn it off or click on the triangles at the top right of the Histogram in the Histogram panel.

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Marcin S wrote:
Thank you for you helpful replies. Now I know a little bit more about it. But still, this is not completely clear to me.
My main question is: when exporting a photo, does Lightroom convert to a profile or assign a profile?
Both.
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I can only add, that those 3 photos which I exported to JPEG with 3 different colour spaces, they look different when viewing outside of Lightroom, ie. IrfanView. But when importing those JPEGs into Lightroom, differences are extremly slight. Is that because Lightroom operates in ProPhoto, which covers all colour spaces which I used, and other programs work in sRGB and those photos differently?
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When you export a photo from LR, it converts to the colour space you select (e.g. sRGB) and embeds the appropriate profile in the exported file.
If your monitor were calibrated and profiled, and you view with a colour-managed viewer then images should look pretty much identical no matter which colour space you export in. (W7 Photo viewer is colour managed, the XP equivalent isn't, Mac s/w generally is. IE and Chrome aren't properly colour managed, Firefox is for all images, Safari is for images with embedded profiles. Other viewers vary.) With colour-managed viewers, the only difference should be with very highly saturated colours outside sRGB colour space (and then only if your monitor can display those colours).
LR is colour managed. If the monitor isn't calibrated/profiled then I think LR assumes the monitor has a colour space equivalent to sRGB (which is generally roughly right but won't be accurate). Internally LR uses ProPhoto RGB colour space in develop module, but uses Adobe RGB in Library, and previews are stored in Adobe RGB. However, the colour space LR uses won't explain why other viewers show things differently. It's simply that LR is colour managed (which means it converts to/from the image colour space), and I guess the other viewers you're using aren't; they just throw RGB data at the screen without converting.
Is it worth calibrating and profiling your monitor? Quite possibly. Does the colour and brightness vary with viewing angle as you move your head from side to side? If so, it may be TN technology, and perhaps not worth profiling. If it looks reasonably stable with different viewing angle then probably yes.

What is a keyline? I need to create one for a die cut job.

My press printer who is die cutting a job for us asked me to create a keyline for the die cut shape. I do not know what this is or how to do it. Is it just an outline of the shape that needs to be cut or is there more to it? How is this done?
Thanks!
Ashley

sishamDSS wrote:
Yes just an outline of the shape you want cut, but create it with a specific colour (spot) so it appears on a different plate when separated.
and set it to overprint so it doesn't knock out your print colors.

Pictures quality

It is strage but I can not obtain very good pictures quality after iMovie slideshow export. It is codecs independent. Bad quality is visible in dark parts of photo for example water surface in shadow. There are colour spots instead of soft shadings. It makes iMovie useless for semiprofessional presentations. It looks that pictures are simplified before they are transferred to codec.
Have you got any ideas about it?

I did a lot of experiments about that.
My final conclusion is that there is impossible to obtain good quality slideshow made of camera images with iMovie (even HD resolution), really surprising !!!
It looks like iMovie imports pictures and at the same time simplifies them to have real time speed edition and playback possibilities. Unfortunately export option does not take original pictures to make rendered movie but takes this simplified version and I think that is the reason why final movie slideshow has terrible spots visible in dark parts of pictures (regardless of the sorce picture format, codecs, resolution options, bitstream etc.). In my opinion it is software bug.
Am I wrong?

Colour spots in develop

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