Why do my image colors look drastically different in Photoshop than Lightroom on two calibrated monitors?

Question

I am using Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CS5. I have two monitors, both are calibrated, (one is a better screen and more precise but they are very close.) When LR is open I can drag it from one screen to another and there is very minimal change in color. But when I export the image from LR as a psd or tiff and open that in PS, the colors are very *very* different from one screen to another, as well as very different from the image I am seeing in LR. Note that: * The image in LR has had adjustments made it to * Tiff files look fine from screen to screen in Preview * exporting as adobe 1998 RGB and Prophoto space causes the same problem.

Answer 1

I would color correct on the better monitor and not try and match with the secondary that is "close".

The difference can be slightly off program to program, but first make sure both files are in RBB, same Bit Mode (8 or 16) most likely 8. Decide what to adjust with, color balance or HSV, HSL and make notes. So after you make the adjustment you'll know the steps. Or a preset per adjustment layer is helpful too when making the adjustment through Photoshop.

Hope that helps a little.

I worked in a studio wher the IT techs came around weekly to do monitor calibrations. We all had two monitors with one assigned as the final color check. Being that the second could never match. (different brand, model or year).