Lightroom JPG import problem.

Question

Hi,
I just downloaded the trial version of Lightroom. I have a Nikon D50 and I am using it in the highest JPG quality (or RAW when I shoot for special occasions) in P mode. I do now have about 1500 photos on my hard drive and because I just installed Lightroom, I want to import these to create my library.
The problem I have is the following. Sometimes, I specify the WB to create a warmer photo instead of leaving it on Auto WB. So, when I look on the camera LCD sreen or on the PC using a picture viewer (like FastStone), the photo is great. But when I try to import these pictures in Lightroom, the WB seems to alter and become much warmer. So the imported photo is yellowish and does not reflect what I shooted. Any of you know what is the problem and how can work around?
Note that I did not try to import a lot of photos, so maybe the problem is present on all my photos and not only the ones I specified a non-automatic WB setting on the camera.
I was shooting in JPG because it was more convinient for us at that moment (except for special occasions) but I will now only shoot in RAW because of Lightroom. I just don't want to declare my past photos "waste".
Thanks

Answer 1

Dany-
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<br />I won't be able to answer in detail on color management issues in general, but there's some good reading suggested in other threads.
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<br />As to what color space you should use for JPEGs as a camera setting- I use aRGB, and convert to sRGB if the pix are going to be shown on the web.
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<br />If you migrate to using just RAW, you set the color space on Export- to JPEG, TIFF, PSD, GIF.
<br /> As to how it looks on the LCD, I can't tell jack from that, either as to color balance or focus in many cases.
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