Lightroom exposure vs CS3 exposure.......

[Jay_Thomas]

I am currently trying a trial version of lightroom, as two photographer friends are raving about it to me, and have found in my first trials that when I process an image to look like I want it to in LR, and then open it in CS3, the image consistently looks darker in CS3 and requires me to bump the curves up a little bit. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? When I brought this up to one of the photogs that recommended it to me he said he had experienced the same thing but thought that maybe it was just him. I like what I have seen from LR in a short time but, for a lot of jobs, I would prefer not to go through CS3 for every image after processing everything through LR to start with.

[AndrewRodney]

Sounds like your color settings in Photoshop are not where they need to be. What color space are you exporting out of LR and are you preserving this upon open in Photoshop? The two previews should match.

[Aaron Winters]

Agreed the two will match unless something is not set correctly and it is most likely a profile issue.

[John_S_Chapman]

Jay

Just exported several images from LR to PS and they match fine. I tried exporting with different colourspaces to the ProPhoto that LR uses, but provided I got PS to use the same space, no problem.

I would have thought that unless you've changed things in PS it should use the same colourspace as LR. I've also tried changing the the various rendering parameters including discarding the the embedded ProPhoto profile. Whilst this does make things a bit darker it also reduces the saturation to give an almost monochrome result.

Are you on a Mac or PC? Do you have a monitor profile set?