Intressant klarläggande från Adobe
I länken till Adobes forum (post #2 ovan) har Mark Hamburg, en av Lightrooms konstruktörer (och Photoshops också för den delen) svarat på hur Lightroom och Photoshop hanterar skärmbilder och förklarat olikheterna i färghantering mellan programmen.
Photoshop använder Adobe Color Engine, ACE för färghantering, medan Lightroom använder operativsystemets färghantering, dvs för Windows är det Microsofts ICM och för Apple är det Colorsync. Detta dock bara för bildvisningen på skärmen. Mark tror detta i kombination med vissa skärmprofiler och bilder kan förklara skillnaderna som ses. Hans egna ord om ni vill slippa leta:
Mark Hamburg - 1:37pm Mar 14, 07 PST (#39 of 56)
Library v Develop v Photoshop: If you aren't viewing at 1:1 in all cases, you can see differences in high-frequency areas caused by differences in where in the processing the downsampling occurs and whether or not it is done in a gamma adjusted space. One really wants to resample in linear space, but neither the OS display logic nor the logic in Photoshop do so. Lightroom does so in Develop. It gets close in Library, but the last stage is handled by the OS.
So, let's assume we've dealt with that issue (though it can be pretty dramatic and convinced me that I don't want to resample images in Photoshop).
The second thing to be potentially concerned about is whether or not ICM is doing the right thing. We let Windows do the color management for the screen display because that provides more opportunities for the OS and the drivers to do both the right thing with the screen buffers and to better exploit GPUs. I don't know that this really kicks in in XP, but it ought to be a good long term choice given the effort Microsoft is putting into color.
ICM was also what RawShooter used with reportedly good results.
But it's possible that certain monitor profiles with certain images bring out real problems in ICM which may force us to go back to doing more ourselves potentially at the expense of long term compatibility.
Note that we do not use ICM for exported files. We only use it for screen display.
Mark
P.S. On the Mac, we're using ColorSync which actually turned out to be more accurate than the fast display path in Photoshop CS2.