e.rose
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This has been making me insane for 2 days now.
Hopefully I can explain this clearly, but I'm starting to lose track of everything I've been trying.
If all else fails, I'll try to do it again and give a step by step of exactly what I'm doing and maybe someone can help me.
I have an image that I started out with in Lightroom. After doing some editing in Lightroom, I exported to Photoshop.
After doing some Calvin Hollywood trick to the image, I was satisfied with how it looked and then exported the image... only to find out it looked like a ROYAL mess in the JPEG.
It was less contrasty, much more grainy, the blacks were faded... it was just horrible all around.
At first I thought that maybe I had pushed the file information too far with my editing, so I went BACK to Lightroom... started all over again... did a less extreme edit and exported to Photoshop *again*.
Same crap happened.
So ignoring the fact that this file is no longer "retouched" because I got so frustrated with having to do it over and over and over again to get the same crappy results... and forget about how sh*tty the lighitng is (I'm terribly aware), here is what it looks like:
This is a screen shot of the image in Photoshop... it's still a .psd at this point:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8248/8...5df1eae1_z.jpg
Then after I saved that .psd and reimported into Lightroom, this is what the Lightroom preview looked like:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8090/8...55b1db54_z.jpg
Then when I tried exporting the .psd as a JPEG through Lightroom, this was the result:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8097/8...689da780_z.jpg
And just to see if maybe Lightroom was my issue, I went back into Photoshop... opened the .psd file, and exported from *there* as a JPEG and *this* was the result:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8386/8...44ee0613_z.jpg
It's the same exact thing as what Lightroom was exporting... NEITHER of which are what the .psd looks like open in Photoshop.
I have been going crazy trying to figure this out.
I checked my color space settings in Photoshop and they're all set to sRGB... unless there is some unknown colorspace setting hiding somewhere unknown to me...
After tinkering a bit, I realized that it was happening after flattening the image (which would make sense as to why the JPEGs look like that, but not the .psd, since Photoshop flattens the image before exporting the JPEG)... And THEN I realized... that if I flattened the image *without* the Calvin Hollywood effect, everything looked fine.
Then just to see what would happen, I deleted the layers for the Calvin Hollywood effect and simply merged the layers up into a new layer. After I did that, I did a high pass filter with the radius set to 5... and then set that layer to "Overlay".
When I then flattened the .psd file, after adding the high pass filter, set to overlay, the madness happened *again*.
So it has *something* to do with overlay mode.
And not only that, but I thought I'd try to get around it by doing what I needed to do, flattening the image, and then fixing the contrast issue with Levels, but when I flattened the image *again*, it went from looking fine to crappy again.
So it has to do with layers set to "Overlay" as well as any layers that were the result of a layer being set to "Overlay".
I hope this is making sense.
It's making me nuts.
What in the royal hell is going on?! I don't think I've ever noticed Overlay layers giving me an issue before, and now suddenly it's screwing everything up!
I don't know what else to try, short of reinstalling Photoshop... could that really even be the issue?
Hopefully I can explain this clearly, but I'm starting to lose track of everything I've been trying.
If all else fails, I'll try to do it again and give a step by step of exactly what I'm doing and maybe someone can help me.
I have an image that I started out with in Lightroom. After doing some editing in Lightroom, I exported to Photoshop.
After doing some Calvin Hollywood trick to the image, I was satisfied with how it looked and then exported the image... only to find out it looked like a ROYAL mess in the JPEG.
It was less contrasty, much more grainy, the blacks were faded... it was just horrible all around.
At first I thought that maybe I had pushed the file information too far with my editing, so I went BACK to Lightroom... started all over again... did a less extreme edit and exported to Photoshop *again*.
Same crap happened.
So ignoring the fact that this file is no longer "retouched" because I got so frustrated with having to do it over and over and over again to get the same crappy results... and forget about how sh*tty the lighitng is (I'm terribly aware), here is what it looks like:
This is a screen shot of the image in Photoshop... it's still a .psd at this point:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8248/8...5df1eae1_z.jpg
Then after I saved that .psd and reimported into Lightroom, this is what the Lightroom preview looked like:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8090/8...55b1db54_z.jpg
Then when I tried exporting the .psd as a JPEG through Lightroom, this was the result:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8097/8...689da780_z.jpg
And just to see if maybe Lightroom was my issue, I went back into Photoshop... opened the .psd file, and exported from *there* as a JPEG and *this* was the result:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8386/8...44ee0613_z.jpg
It's the same exact thing as what Lightroom was exporting... NEITHER of which are what the .psd looks like open in Photoshop.
I have been going crazy trying to figure this out.
I checked my color space settings in Photoshop and they're all set to sRGB... unless there is some unknown colorspace setting hiding somewhere unknown to me...
After tinkering a bit, I realized that it was happening after flattening the image (which would make sense as to why the JPEGs look like that, but not the .psd, since Photoshop flattens the image before exporting the JPEG)... And THEN I realized... that if I flattened the image *without* the Calvin Hollywood effect, everything looked fine.
Then just to see what would happen, I deleted the layers for the Calvin Hollywood effect and simply merged the layers up into a new layer. After I did that, I did a high pass filter with the radius set to 5... and then set that layer to "Overlay".
When I then flattened the .psd file, after adding the high pass filter, set to overlay, the madness happened *again*.
So it has *something* to do with overlay mode.
And not only that, but I thought I'd try to get around it by doing what I needed to do, flattening the image, and then fixing the contrast issue with Levels, but when I flattened the image *again*, it went from looking fine to crappy again.
So it has to do with layers set to "Overlay" as well as any layers that were the result of a layer being set to "Overlay".
I hope this is making sense.
It's making me nuts.
What in the royal hell is going on?! I don't think I've ever noticed Overlay layers giving me an issue before, and now suddenly it's screwing everything up!
I don't know what else to try, short of reinstalling Photoshop... could that really even be the issue?