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Giuliana

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:33:35 PM8/3/24

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I've tried exporting in AVIF and JPEG XL, with all available color spaces, with no result. I've tried viewing the images in Preview, Safari, Chrome, and Photos, but they all look identical, i.e. a little too dim.

My display supports HDR and my photos appear really good in the lightroom but after exporting, they look dim with muted highlights. But when I export the SDR images, the exported images look exactly identical. So, the issue is with only the HDR exporting. Like you, I tried exporting in different formats and the result is the same. I was really excited that Lightroom brought the HDR update but it's frustating that the exported images look dull. I've been researching for a fix since the update dropped but my effortts have been in vain.

However after I export it, either via Lightroom Classic on my Mac where original files were, or via Lr on iPad, the exported files is far from correct when viewed using the iPad's Photos app vs. Lr iPad preview.

No Apple apps support HDR images correctly. Preview will attempt something but it will be wrong. All the other apps you mention will not display HDR images at all or incorrectly. This is just Apple being way behind the times. The only apps that will work correctly are Photoshop after you enable the "Precise color management for HDR display" in the Technology preview settings (and also the option to open HDR images in HDR mode in camera raw) and Chrome. Chrome should display the image identical to Lightroom. It does on my machine so not sure why it doesn't on your machine.

They're wrong. HDR images are not correctly implemented in Mac OS. It is also not correctly implemented on Windows by the way for the other poster's info. There you also need Chrome or Photoshop. Support for this is extremely spotty still.

Thanks for your response. Chrome is working perfectly for me. The jpg exports look exactly like they do in the lightroom app. So, it's reassuring that my JPG's contain the necessary info for displaying the photo accurately as it appears in lightroom. which Crome was able to decode.

But as you can imagine, Chrome is not ideal for photoviewing, especially if one has tons of photos. I found online that photo viewing apps which are "colour managed" will display accurate images as they appear in the lightroom. I've tried a couple of those but unfortunately they are not working. Weirdly, adobe photoshop and bridge are also not displaying the JPGs properly (I checked the settings they seemeed to be alright).

Jpegs with the HDR option turned on use a non-standard encoding that most apps, including interestingly Photoshop, do not understand and so you get a SDR display in general except in a few exceptions such as Chrome. Photoshop can read them correctly but only if you open the file through camera raw not if you open them directly which is indeed weird. So I don't think anything is wrong with your settings.. Basically no Photo app understands these files. The best options are avif and jpeg XL but again basically no programs understand these correctly either so there really is not much we can do right now. This is very much still in its infancy.

That's expected and the reason is that Mac Os and windows both do not support HDR formats correctly. Preview on the Mac will not correctly display them. The only option really is Chrome. The Photos app in the last mac os version does correctly display jpeg XL and AVIF, but preview still does not. Safari does not display it wel anywhere.

Until this problem is fixed by Apple, Microsoft, and google (android doesn't do it right either), you should stay away from editing in HDR mode except if you have complete control over the display of your images.

Unfortunately, there's not much Adobe can do at this point. Windows, Mac/iOS and Android need to catch up and add support to to their default image viewers to decode the JPEG+gain maps format so that we can actually visualise HDR images withought having to rely on Chrome/Edge.

I just tried exporting as an AVIF on my MacBook M3 Max and they don't look good at all...super washed out in the preview in Finder anyway...darn...was hoping this was the solution for me (and many others with the same problem). Thanks though!

Got the same issue. Looks like I found a workaround which requires Photoshop. From Lightroom, choose to edit the picture in Photoshop (the modifications still visible) and from there export it as JPG. Photoshop probably flattens the whole thing from there I guess, which is exactly what we would want in this situation!

To send it to Photoshop is not the same result. You have to export it as AVIF (HDR-Rec. 2020). On Mac in the finder it looks not very well, but that doesn't matter. After that you can open it in Photoshop and save it as you want. And now you have the same result as in Lightroom (with HDR).

After editing in Lightroom (HDR mode) I export photos as JPEG XL (.JXL) files using the P3 HDR color space. Next, I import the image files into Photos on the MacBook. (Other apps on the MacBook don't show the .JXL images properly, but Photos does.) I could add these files to a Photos album, but after synchronizing with the iPhone it turns out they are not viewable on the iPhone. However, I can export them from Photos as HEIC files, and then import the HEIC versions back to Photos on the MacBook. These images (having been converted to HEIC by Photos) can be added to an album and they do show up as HDR with nice highlights on the MacBook and iPhone.

Thank you, that's what I was looking for to display photos from my other cameras in the apple photos albums in HDR. Although it's completly ridicioulous that we have to use such a workflow and it isn't working right out of the box.

If you are referring to Lightroom CC (the cloud-based version), and if you imported your images using that version of Lightroom, then the images are stored in the cloud. Depending on how you had that version configured on the old computer, it is possible that copies were also being stored on the hard drive of the old computer. But I don't know how you had Lightroom CC configured on the old computer or on the new computer as far as that's concerned. If you are referring to Lightroom CC, then when you go to Lightroom.adobe.com you are looking at the same images that you imported to Lightroom CC. The exact same images because that website is pointing to the same cloud location.

Since you have the Creative Cloud photography plan, you can also install Lightroom Classic CC which enables you to import images and store them on your local hard drive(s) and choose to share collections of images to Lightroom.adobe.com. Those collections will be smart previews rather than full-sized images. You will still be able to edit them and share them. The advantage of doing this is that these smart preview collections will not impact your cloud storage allocation.

Creative Cloud Files is a kind of Dropbox-like folder that you get when you have a Creative Cloud account. It's separate from Lightroom CC cloud storage, so adding a photo to it won't make that photo available in Lightroom CC.

Creative Cloud can be used to share everything like a drop box. It gets synced to your PC wherever you choose to do that, the default is down deep in your user files. Unless LRCC, you can not switch off this syncing.

Lrcc is fine for jpegs and raws, and for most video. But if you had many clips that you have assembled in Premiere or else and want to share that control file, then you need to do it via the creative cloud. Likewise, if you had photos in your Premiere project, you can not share those via LRCC. I guess that is not your scope so it is of little importance. If you subscribe to a video plan, you get something like 100Gbyte storage. This storage Volume is also visible in LRCC then. Should you be interested in video, then this is a smart way to increase your LRCC storage volume.

I recently got very confused and had to reinstall Lightroom Classic. I had previously imported photos to other folders in the past, with a Creative Cloud account showing up in the Lightroom library too! This software is great, but can leave anyone flustered if they don't keep current with the ever-evolving Adobe programs.

I will then implement the order and organization of creating new albumns---one at a time---from the external drive and the Creative Cloud files. If I had just left everying in the disorderly mess that it was, I would have gone crazy.

I have a work CC account I've used for Lightroom CC, but I'd like to move to a personal account. What is the best way to migrate my entire Lightroom catalog (folder, albums, and all) to another account?

Can you clarify which version of Lightroom you're referring to: the desktop-based version (LR CC2015 or it's updated version LR Classic), or the new cloud-based version LRCC? One's easy to switch, the other's not so easy....

The problem in this instance is that whereas the desktop-based Lightroom catalog isn't connected to any specific Adobe ID, the LRCC cloud-based assets are. So I don't know of any easy procedural way to "migrate" the cloud-based assets from one Adobe ID to another. It might be possible to cobble something together by downloading all existing cloud assets into an empty LR Classic catalog, then switching to the new Adobe ID, starting LRCC and adding all the downloaded assets to it (or using the catalog migration tool in LRCC). Of course, it means uploading all assets again, but at least that way all the edit work done on the first ID would be saved (but not any keywords).

To be honest, I think the first port of call should be Adobe Customer Care, they might have thought of this possibility and have an internal method for switching existing cloud assets from one account to another, without any loss of work. Won't hurt to ask.