Lightroom import defaults to adobe color, ignores preferences

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Can someone give me some help please - I’m losing my marbles here.

I have been trying to tackle imports into Lightroom for my OM1 Mk2 - basically lightroom does a terrible job of colour rendition but I have found that if I set the profile to Adobe Neutral then the auto settings become a good starting point & hence I have set this as a preset and put it in the preferences - it also allows me to disable the default sharpening that lightroom likes to apply and rely on PureRaw.

However, inspite of setting all my preferences to import with the profile I have stated, images from PureRaw always come in as Adobe Colour, all the other settings are fine but the import from PureRaw sets the wrong colour profile.

Is there somewhere I can change this please as really annoying.

I am using pureraw as standalone to process files so it’s not the immediate interaction between the two products.

I can see there is potentially a default behaviour of DNG happening but why is everything else working just fine?

Any pointers please?

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My Canon has a Color space setting. I keep it set to Adobe RGB. It also has sRGB. Is your camera possibly set a similar setting and it is being used by the software?

Ron

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Thanks for thinking of that but it’s the Profile on the Basic tab in Lightroom that is my problem.

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That’s fine - as long as you are aware;

  • Color Space settings actually apply only to JPG files

  • RAW files do not have a “Color space” - tho, they typically do store the setting applied by the camera, which may be used by RAW processing software to anticipate the user’s color space preference … such as when “As Shot” is applied.

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I see the same thing even though I use PR as a plugin in LrC. The RAW has the profile set to Camera Flat (Nikon). The DNG comes back as Adobe Color. The strange part is that there is a “amount” slider underneath the profile name.. There shouldn’t one there for Adobe Color. Plus this profile is the same as Camera Flat and is different from the “real”Adobe Color, which I selected manually. Not really sure what LrC is doing? Producing some kind a custom profile or naming issue? Anyway, at least for me, it doesn’t make a difference. Since I don’t do any processing in the RAW file, if I wanted to I could just reset the image. Camera Flat is set as my default. I did an experiment. I set the RAW file’s profile to Adobe Color and PR returned a DNG with the “real” Adobe Color. An issue with non-Adobe profiles assigned to RAW file?

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You can create a user preset in Lightroom that can be designated in Lightroom preferences to be used during initially import. This preset will also be used when the dng file is exported from PureRaw back to Lightroom. I have a preset that specifies the color profile and all of my editing setting zeroed out.