Thursday, August 18, 2011

How to prevent these automatic changes to images that are imported into Lightroom?

Question

When I open images in Lightroom for the first time, during the loading process I see images that look "great", but after a while Lightroom applies some automatic processing to these images that produces results that I then need to get rid of again.

I have no clue why LR does these things, and in preferences I have unchecked all automatic processing options – however this still remains.

How can I get rid of it? What is it, anyways?

Answer

When you take a picture on your camera, it produces a small jpg with the camera settings to act as a preview for the image. When Lightroom loads up, it first shows you that preview until it creates its own preview. After that it will show you its picture.

There's pretty much nothing you can really do about it. It stems from that fact that LR applies its own interpretation of the settings. About your only option is to tweak it back to the way you liked it, use a jpg straight out of camera, or use the software that came with your camera. Selecting a camera profile from the 'Camera Calibration' section of the 'Develop' module may help.

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