Photos darker in LR than PS

I have my monitor set for the photos I tone in PS but I am doing a lot more event photography with large batches of photos that I never open in PS since I handle them in LR. I noticed my last group of prints was quite dark and when i compared the LR preview with the same photos in PS, I could see that the pictures look a lot brighter in LR. I need them to look the same. Any adice? Thanks!

They can only look the same when you make sure that PS opens the image with all the edits that are done in LR.
And even then they will look different if your color settings in PS are different from LR.
As for the latter, in PS under Edit > Color Settings choose <proPhoto RGB>.
To make sure that PS opens an image with all the edits of LR you have to open the image (from LR) as <Edit a Copy with LR Adjustments>.
If you open the image as <Edit Original> then the image is opened as it is on disk and none of the edits that were made in LR are applied.
This is so because LR writes the edits only into the catalog - unless you save the edits to file (in the Library module, under <Metadata>, <Save metadata to file>. Or keyboard shortcut Ctl. + S.
In<Catalog Settings>, in the <Metadata tab> you can also check the box <Automatically write changes into xmp.> .
WW

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Sara.Forsberg wrote:
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