Lightroom trouble--help? - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/21/2009 07:56:44 PM · #1

So I just installed Lightroom, and to my dismay there's something up with the color. Everything I look at in the filmstrip looks awful, posterized, etc, with comparison to Bridge, which makes the shots look, well, as they actually are.

For comparison, Lightroom:

And the same in Bridge:

Anyone know how to fix this?

violinist123

Canon EOS-6D

01/21/2009 08:01:21 PM · #2

Can't see much of a diff at these sizes, but you can see lr is using 'default' develop settings. You can tinker with them and save a new default that closer resembles bridge. You can also download camera profiles for use in lr that work pretty well at approximating camera preview settings.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/21/2009 08:05:51 PM · #3

The pics are bigger than that--click 'view full-sized image' to see the whole thing.

Just noticed the same thing happens if I open these RAW files in Photoshop's camera RAW, but not if I open in Bridge's camera RAW...

violinist123

Canon EOS-6D

01/21/2009 08:10:54 PM · #4

I see. Go to Develop in lr, change the settings and save a new default. I set everything to 0 and use that as a default.

01/21/2009 08:15:30 PM · #5

I've tried that, but it didn't change the uneven transitions of tone I'm getting. Any other ideas? It can't be a color space issue, can it? RAW doesn't record color spaces...

01/21/2009 08:19:20 PM · #6

You know what it looks like? It looks kinda like these programs aren't taking the entire bitrate of the file--looks like if I had set the graphics card to 16-bit color instead of 32-bit. But only in these programs. hmmmmm....