RAW's looking oversaturated

oO Stevie Oo · 12 Jul 2012 at 18:47

Hi

Does anyone else's raws look over saturated in Lightroom when they are first imported? I don't know if it's my camera or the lighting at the time or what, usually I just turn down the saturation abit but it's buggin me.
Monitor is calibrated.
Just wondering if there are any settings in camera or in Lightroom I can check, everything is set to sRGB.

Cheers

Devrij · 12 Jul 2012 at 19:43

I have the opposite actually. My RAW files tend to need a small boost. JPEG processing in camera comes out better, although the noise reduction isn't amazing even at its lowest.

James J · 12 Jul 2012 at 20:47

Check to see if lightroom has a RAW boost default option. Aperture has a boost and hue boost option, both which drastically change the RAW file upon import.

Derek W · 12 Jul 2012 at 20:54

When you import your images into lightroom you haven't left on a preset which includes a saturation boost?

oO Stevie Oo · 12 Jul 2012 at 23:10

Will check cheers
All the sliders are at 0 so I don't think the saturation is changed
It looks fine while the loading thing is there but then it changes lol

Nexus · 13 Jul 2012 at 00:09

I've still not used Lightroom much (Aperture user) but I know that with Aperture it loads a default RAW processing for the particular model of camera when you import photos. You can however tweak the RAW processing it automatically applies should you wish it to do something else by default. Does Lightroom do something similar and perhaps you have changed it?

pryere · 13 Jul 2012 at 01:08

It does sound like you have an import pre-set applied.

PistolPete · 13 Jul 2012 at 09:26

Devrij said:
I have the opposite actually. My RAW files tend to need a small boost.

This - I have to add a small touch of saturation (about 15 off the top of my head) and a small amount of sharpening (about 20)