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: Lightroom 2 Colour Management


Dangerphoto
08-16-2010, 11:32 PM
Hey guys,

I uploaded an image onto flickr, viewed it in both IE and Firefox...

IE: This image was more dark(saturated) than what I saw in LR2 but is similar to what I actually shot/previewed on my SLR.

Firefox: This image was similar to what I saw in LR2, the image is a lot brighter than what I actually shot. ie. black looked dark brownish.

Is there a way to turn off the colour management that LR2 has on, because I am having a hard time with developing some pictures.

Thanks in advance,

Shin.

Senna4ever
08-17-2010, 01:11 AM
Too many variables to say what is actually going on here.

- DO NOT go by what you see on the screen on the back of the camera! Read the histogram instead.
- is your monitor calibrated?
- what colourspace are you working in?
- It may just be the differences in the browsers.
- Can you post the image?

Dangerphoto
08-17-2010, 09:26 AM
I know my monitor is not calibrated.
The colourspace I think I am working in is sRGB. But I played around with the camera calibration...which was set at ACR 4.4...and changed to to portrait camera. This slightly changed it to look properly.

I read that IE is currently still not colour managed, but when I have my image viewed in IE; it is how it looks like on camera.
On the other hand, FF seems to have colour management and changes the look of the image.

Here is the photo I was speaking of:

1.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4901930616_9aca14fa99_b.jpg

2.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4901927348_75b153a7b2_b.jpg

In image 1, I used the "print" module to print to file; this is also what the view is like in LR2. The photo to me seems brighter than the original from camera. ie. The blacks look Brownish.

In image 2, I used the "export" function to jpeg in sRGB format. This photo is closely similar to what I see in the camera.

Also, I viewed this on both IE and FF; on IE the 2nd image was correctly coloured but in FF the 2nd image is still slightly brownish.

dutch
08-17-2010, 10:10 AM
Its probably your monitor color profile.

If you goto your color management options in windows set it to srgb or similar.

in vista:

display settings -> advanced settings -> color management

Dangerphoto
08-17-2010, 11:02 AM
Finally!! LR2 has corrected its colouring!

Thanks alot jason and dutch!