Why does Lightroom show a color tint on my second monitor in dual-monitor mode?

Asked 6/28/2014

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I use a laptop with an external monitor. I adjusted the external display in its menu so it visually matches the laptop, but in Lightroom’s dual-monitor view the image on the second monitor shows a color tint. A black-and-white photo makes the problem especially obvious: it looks neutral on the laptop but tinted on the external display.

I also saw a Photoshop warning related to the monitor/profile. Recalibrating removed the Photoshop warning, but Lightroom still showed the tint. What could cause this, and how can I fix it?

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Try using a spyder 4 pro or another product with similar capabilities.

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This is most likely a display color-management/profile issue rather than a Lightroom-specific image problem.

From the answers, the most plausible causes are:

  • the external monitor needs proper hardware calibration/profiling, not just matching by eye in the monitor menu
  • the monitor ICC/ICM profile may be corrupted or unreadable by some software

What to try:

  1. Recalibrate/profile the external display with a hardware calibrator such as a Spyder-class device.
  2. Check the monitor’s ICC/ICM profile. If it may be corrupt, recreating or replacing the profile can help.
  3. Reconnect the display and reassign the monitor profile in the OS; one report said reconnecting through another display path made the tint disappear.

If Photoshop gave a profile warning, that strongly suggests the monitor profile was part of the problem. Lightroom and Photoshop both rely on correct display profiles, so if one screen is tinted only in color-managed apps, the profile chain is the first thing to fix.

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