Hey everyone, I need some help,I've been looking for the answer but I can't find it or Figure it out. So I got lightroom 2.0 the other day. When I open Raw pictures to look at them in lightroom something isn't right. When I click the picture in the bar bellow it pops up bigger and lets me view it, For a few seconds it looks perfect, amazing colour. Then a little blurb will pop up saying "Rendering Preview" After its done doing that,the picture loses quite a bit of colour,it goes down a lot and doesn't have as much colour in the picture. What is wrong,and what Can I do to stop this from loosing colour after Redering Preview?
Thanks!
Joel
So I figured it out with this batch of 400 shots,I chose one photo, After the colour was dropped, I played with the settings a bit(still new to lightroom) and got the colours the way I like em, Then Selected all of the photos and Synced the settings to all,Worked great,Thanks everyone
Adobe is also previewing a new profile system that works with LR2 and ACR 4.5. It's available at http://labs.adobe.com and is called DNG profile editor but it works with raw files.
Adobe has profiles to match Canon and Nikon converter output. It's pretty cool.
This is by far the most asked question and I'm still surprised it isn't stickied or the main post somewhere.
It's simple. RAW files have an embedded preview jpeg. Even though you are shooting RAW format in your camera, the initial view you see in LR is the embedded jpeg. The same goes for the image thumbnail you see on the LCD screen of your camera. That's not the actual RAW file but it's the smaller preview jpeg that is inside the RAW file that you are seeing. The colouring and rendition of that preview/jpeg is based on the picture style that is set in your camera. When LR renders the image it's actually rendering or 'loading' a preview based on the actual RAW file.
Since true RAW files don't have any processing done to them the image 'drops' and becomes a bit flatter. That's because you are losing any sharpening or saturation & contrast settings that were applied to the jpeg preview.
Why doesn't this happen in things like DPP the software from Canon? Well that is because DPP is a Canon software and is programed to understand the algorythms that were used in the camera picture style. When DPP loads the RAW file it applies the same processing to the RAW file so you get the same look instead of dropping to the proper and unprocessed RAW.
Can you do the same thing or replicate this in LR? Yes and yes. There are two ways, you can either create a custom preset of processing parameters that match what your picture style is doing (saturation boost, contrast boost, sharpening and etc). Apply these settings to one photo then save it as a preset. Then when you import files into LR there is a toggle that allows you to select that this preset be applied to every image as it's being imported. You can make the preset to look anyway you want.
The second way is through Camera Raw 4.5 camera profiles from Adobe Labs. This only works with Lr version 2.0. It is not backwards compatible with version 1 of lightroom. These are camera calibration profiles created by Adobe to best mimick the preexisting camera picture styles from most manufacturers. You can download them for free and have them loaded in LR. When you view images after import these profiles can be quickly chosen and applied to one or multiple images. There is a video tutorial tip on this today from lightroomkillertips.com http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/video-camera-profiles-for-lightroom/
Does this make sense? I hope this helps.
Just remember, it's not that something is wrong, Lightroom is just doing what it's supposed to be doing.
