Lightroom 5.5 Color Over-Saturation in Develop (Normal in Library)

So I started running into this problem last night. Any photos hat have particularly bright spots, or a large contrast range form these patches of pure red, green or blue. It seems like red forms wherever the photos approach 'near-white', blue where it is 'near black', and I have yet to determine what causes the green (it is far less common). But this is across all of my photos. Even the old ones that I know are alright - have gone to print and have not been adjusted since. But this only happens when viewing the photo in develop mode, in library mode the photos always display correctly. I've attached images to demonstrate.
Develop mode:
The same photo in Library mode:
I don't know if you can see in the develop image, but the front grill is speckled with blue pixels, as well as inside the wheel hubs, this car's windshield, and on the windshield of the left-most car across the street. If I drop the exposure, the blue speckling becomes more prevalent (red splotches shrink). If I increase it, the red splotches grow (blue speckling decreases). This happens with daytime photos as well, but usually just with the reds, and occasionally the greens. I've yet to run into green splotches on a nighttime photo.
I use a Nikon D7100 exclusively at the moment. I always import to my computer using Lightroom's tool. I am on Windows 8.1 64-bit, using an nVidia (EVGA) GTX 760, 16Gb of ram, an Intel Core i7 3770k. I've already done a clean reinstall of my graphics drivers, but I stopped short of a Lightroom reinstall. The NEFs themselves display perfectly inside of Irfanview 4.36. I wanted to test to see if it was a general Adobe issue, or just Lightroom, but I also discovered that my PS CS4 is now refusing to open NEFs - "Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document". This could be a separate issue, or it might be related because they started happening at the same time - never had a problem opening an NEF from my D7100 in photoshop, but it's been a couple months since I've last had to go into photoshop to do editing for a shot.
The only other change I can think of is I ditched my second monitor in a recent move. But that one was my secondary monitor, going through a DVI-VGA adapter. It was old, flickered a little when displaying a darker image, and I'm pretty sure it's reds never displayed correctly. It was never used for anything more than hosting a library grid. And yes, I've checked my calibration of my monitor 24" Asus. The exact model number escapes me at the moment (ASUS isn't the best at labeling model numbers on their product), but it's a few years old.
Any thoughts?

You have the clipping indicators activated, red for highlight clipping and blue for shadow clipping.
Click the little triangles at the dark and light ends of the histogram to toggle the clipping warnings on and off.

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First I used Levels to adjust the black point to 12 which was where the histogram ran out of values at the low end, and then boosted the overall brightness using the gamma slider to where it looked ok but not overly bright. In this example I used 1.20. With a different sort of picture, you might need to move the white-point down to where the histogram ran out of values on the bright end but this picture had pure white already in it, so that wasn't necessary. The Auto Levels command actually does the black and white point adjustments but it overdoes them a little so I like using the Levels black and white point sliders to be more precise:
Next I did like how you brought out a little more detail in the highlights, so used Shadows/Highlights to compress the light values slightly, and also used the Midtone Contrast to give the textures of the image a little more pop:
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I left your sharpening except using a threshold of 15 as I stated, above. This image was quite blurry so it probably needed more sharpening attention using different radii and perhaps the other sharpening tool, but I didn't want to spend time with that since the most obvious issue at hand was oversaturation.
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Here is your original image opened in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) with all the toning adjustments at zero:
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Here are the Sharpness and Noise-Reduction settings I settled on after a few minutes:
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I see in this screenshot that I had the Detail slider set to 5, which was probably better than the 25 I used in the screenshot, above. The other thing to notice is the Luminance and Color sliders in the Noise Reduction area are set to reduce the tiny specs of noise and the green/purple splotches.
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http://www.adobe.com/lightroom/

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Lately I started to get this weird beheviour from LR 2.7. each time my monitor resumes from sleep all image colors become extremely over saturated. All other apps and computer desktop are just the same so it's only LR.
I use a wide gamut LCD (HP LP2475w) which is calibrated using iOne Display 2.
If I restart LR the problem goes away. This only started a few days ago just after I started uploading new photos taken by a new lens (Sigma 30mm).
Any ideas?
Micha

Hi
I can sympathise with how annoying this must be - and although I haven't looked into it myself, I do recall several other posts over the last 18months or so, with the same issue.
I can't dig out the exact posts now, but maybe the following might lead somewhere?
http://webkit.org/blog/73/color-spaces/
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302827
http://www.gballard.net/psd/golive_pageprofile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html
sorry I can't locate the threads I remember- I found one or two, but they were un-answered.

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I'm experiencing an issue where Safari shows images optimised for the web in a very over saturated form.
It is really driving me mad!
My MackBook Pro and 23" apple LCD are both colour calibrated using the Spyder2Pro colouromitor. I use those profiles for the screens and the colours are great.
Here's my workflow:
- My camera is set to use Adobe RGB 1998 icc profile
- I take images in RAW format and import them into Aperture (ver 1.5).
- When I have made any adjustments I export them from Apertue into jpeg format
- I have set-up Aperture to use the sRGB colour space when exporting images into jpeg format from Aperture (the images will mainly be used for the web which is why I use sRGB)
- I open the images using Photoshop and use the 'optimise for web' feature to keep the file size low
- I select the option that says 'embed icc profile'
- Photoshop then embeds the sRGB icc profile in the image
If I look at the image, it looks just fine in Photoshop or any other image viewing program. If I then open it in Safari it looks way over sturated.
I have tried everything and I just can't work it out.
I've even tried setting my monitor colour space to that of sRGB to see if it makes any difference, and it doesn't.
However, if I choose NOT to embedd the icc profile in the image, then Safari opens the image and it looks just like the jpeg when I view it within Photohop or any other image veiwer.
I can view the images using Internet Explorer on a Windows PC and they appear to be fine. I guess thats because IE ignores colour profiles where Safari will use them if they exist.
It seems Safari is reading the colour profile incorrectly in the image.
Can anyone tell me whats going on?

Hi
I can sympathise with how annoying this must be - and although I haven't looked into it myself, I do recall several other posts over the last 18months or so, with the same issue.
I can't dig out the exact posts now, but maybe the following might lead somewhere?
http://webkit.org/blog/73/color-spaces/
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302827
http://www.gballard.net/psd/golive_pageprofile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html
sorry I can't locate the threads I remember- I found one or two, but they were un-answered.

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