Lightroom color issues

[Animal]

I've been working in Lightroom mostly organizing some pictures, adding keywords for searching, etc etc. I've also been following along with some videos to get some pictures to look good.

Well, when I export pictures to jpeg, they look like total ass compared to what I see in Lightroom... wtf is going on? Here is what I'm talking about:

This picture is just a conversion from RAW to jpeg using Canons Digital Photo Professional. NO POST PROCESSING. (http://picasaweb.google.com/petelopez/BrookfieldZoo/photo#5100565161144782514)

This picture was post processed in Digital Photo Professional. The image is sharper and the colors more vibrant. Maybe not perfect but pretty good. (http://picasaweb.google.com/petelopez/BrookfieldPostProcessed/photo#5101398573778769554)

Finally, this picture was processed and exported in Lightroom. (http://picasaweb.google.com/petelopez/BrookfieldZoo2/photo#5102545222672620786)

For the best effect, open all 3 of those links in a new tab and switch between them. Digital Photo Professional gave me the most accurate image after conversion, what I saw in the DPP program is almost exactly what you see in that second image. In Lightroom, no only does my image look like total ass (with a yellowish overtone) but when I export it, it doesn't look like it does in Lightroom.

Seriously, what am I doing wrong?

[Animal]

Ok small update and some clarification after I have done some additional tinkering.

Digital Photo Professional, the exported Digital Photo Professional jpeg and the exported Lightroom jpeg look as I think they should. However, in Lightroom, all my images that I am working on have a yellow tint to them. It's a pretty large yellow tint also.

The problem this creates is that I can't edit the files in Lightroom since I have no way of knowing how they will actually turn out.

In short everything works fine except viewing images while in Lightroom. So, wtf?

[Sammie]

that is odd. I have not experienced that problem.
I have the full version and I know it gives me some options when I export, like file resolution and where to place the file.
Do you have options when you export? Have you tried tinkering with them?


My biggest problem is that my pics dont look the same out of my printer as they do on my monitor so I have not done a lot of printing b/c I dont know what is going to come out.
I need to calibrate my monitor and printer. There is some software available to do it, I just have not gotten around to ordering it.

[Animal]

Tinkered with all the options. I don't know what the hell is going on.

[Sammie]

do you get a resolution option when you export?

[Animal]

http://www.petelopez.com/lightroom.htm

I can't explain it any better than that.

[Sammie]

it almost feels like it is on an auto setting.

go back to your library tab, make sure there are no auto buttons checked. Then go back to your develop tab and make sure there are no auto tabs checked there either.

Next suggestion: post up in the lightroom forums or email adobe lightroom.

when i export a raw to jpeg w/o editing, it doesnt change the file at all

[Animal]

According to a user in the Adobe forums the problem was due to a corrupt monitor profile. I removed all my profiles from the monitors applet in control panel and it now displays like it should.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc6331b/1?@251.1PWkhKvZHDA@

[zero]

They make things to correct just those problems, like Sammie had mentioned. Every monitor displays things differently, and when you're in the business of printing things, you need colors to display on your screen exactly like they will print.

We have one of these at work for our graphic artist.
http://www.amazon.com/Pantone-GEU102-COLORVISION-Windows-Macintosh/dp/B00007IT9B

It comes with this little eye devices that attaches to the screen and reads colors that the program displays on screen, and it runs all kinds of colors and patterns. When it's done you get a monitor profile that should make all of the colors pretty accurate, unless you have a really bad monitor. That way you know what you see while you're editing images will print out exactly the same.

But unless you're doing all of this professionally, or are really serious about your colors, I'm not sure if it's worth all the trouble.

[Animal]

I'm not doing anything that requires that level of calibration. But if you looked at the link I put up, you will see that there was a SIGNIFICANT difference between what I saw in Lightroom and what I saw everywhere else. Deleting my apparently corrupt monitor profile (downloaded from Dell) from Windows cleared it up. Problem solved. However, I do plan on getting one of those calibration packages when I run into a little more money.

[Sammie]

thanks for the link. I'm definately going to make an investment into a calibrator but i have faired that well financially this year so all my big purchases (like a large format printer) are on hold. It may be a little while longer as I plan to go to Ireland and Holland next spring.

Glad you got it figured out AR. I never had to remove my monitor profiles

[Hae-Yu]

What about using the Adobe Gamma Loader to calibrate your monitor? It's free and works for me.

[Sammie]

Ill have to look into that. Thanks for the tip