Post Editing Digital Photos in Lightroom
When Post Editing Digital Photos in Lightroom, I start by developing a clean image first, for which we created a preset. While the color intensity still shocks me a little… although I have found how to level that down, I am always amazed at the amount of detail that it brings forward if compared with the initial picture. That definitely is a great plus!
However, I have identified a problem that I haven’t solved yet; here it is… and it applies – in different degrees – to all pictures I export from Lightroom into Photoshop CS4 (in my case): a remarkable color difference!
How can this be? What am I missing here?
Above you see the screenshot of a picture – in Sepia – in Lightroom.
Post Editing Digital Photos in Photoshop
As I need to resize the picture for a specific purpose, I export the Digital Photo directly from Lightroom for some Post Editing in Photoshop.
What a surprise: see the difference in color! The golden touch has completely faded, some grey has sneaked in that was non-existent on my Sepoa picture above, and even the sharpness has taken a blow.
What has happened in this process… on this passage?
The Influence of Backgrounds
Being conscious of the Influence of Backgrounds – black, white, grey or any other -, I was wondering whether my eyes are being fooled? Or my mind? Or both?
In Lightroom the background is of a dark grey, in Photoshop it is light grey – could it make such a difference in the perception of a color?
Not believing this could be the case, I still had to investigate this issue; after all, I had spent precious time in Lightroom, I was happy with the result… and I did not want to start all over!
So here is the exported picture in Photoshop on the same fond – a darkish grey – as in Lightroom! And have we found an answer to the problem? Unfortunately not yet… but I am determined to solve this mystery. . .
Photo Media Stock
If anyone out there knows the answer, please comment! It’s only in persisting on finding solutions to problems that we evolve… I would love to have this one answered!
Images are so important in Website Publishing – and that’s what we are focusing on right here and right now; Printed matter comes at a later stage as I am concerned. For the time being, I focus on getting the quality of digital photography right – be it Landscape Photography or Architecture Photography as in this example in a magnificent private garden in Noordhoek, South Africa – in order to supply good Stock Photography for our new website: Photo Media Stock.
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Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.
