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- All pages checked against the v0.7.1 tag and its release assets; verified: bumped to 0.7.1. - Install: 32-bit Windows (x86) installer and portable build; pre-0.6 upgrades keep their install folder. - Import: Recently Deleted photos are restored by default; progress shows in the activity stack. - Edit: HDR button next to B&W. - Export: JPEG XL Effort and Progressive, lossy JPEG XL colour space note, Add to Apple Photos on macOS. - Lightroom import: activity stack progress and stopping with its X. - Raw troubleshooting: Adobe RGB fix now released, monochrome picture style tone, EOS R5 Mark II C-RAW decodes, Leica DNG and dark scenes still open; drop "import again" (duplicates are skipped). - docs/user/CLAUDE.md is a regular file instead of a symlink. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title: Raw photos look dull or washed out
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description: What to do when a raw photo looks flat, grey or desaturated in LightCraft compared with the camera JPEG.
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order: 20
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verified: 0.7.1
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---
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Update to the latest LightCraft, then select the photo and choose **Photo** > **Reload from Disk**. Colour handling for raw files changed a lot between 0.4.0 and 0.7.1, and several flat-looking Sony and Fujifilm cases are fixed. Some Leica DNGs and dark, muted scenes still look dull.
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## Symptoms
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- A raw photo looks flat, grey or desaturated as soon as you open it.
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- The preview or thumbnail looks right, but the opened photo does not.
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- Blacks look lifted, and the shadows look grey.
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## Fix
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1. Check your version in **Help** > **About LightCraft** (on macOS, **LightCraft** > **About LightCraft**). If it is older than 0.7.1, install the [latest release](https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/releases/latest). See [Install LightCraft](../getting-started/install.md).
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2. Select the raw photo and choose **Photo** > **Reload from Disk**.
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3. If it still looks dull, adjust it by hand in the **Edit** panel. See [Edit a photo](../guides/edit-a-photo.md).
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4. If you think the starting look is wrong for your camera, report it with the original raw file. See [Get help with a problem](get-help.md).
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## Why this happens
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LightCraft develops a raw from the sensor data and tries to match the look of the camera's own JPEG. How well it matches depends on the camera model.
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- **Sony ARW:** on 0.5.0 and older, some Lossless Compressed M-size files had lifted blacks, and an A7 II file lost most of its colour. Both are fixed since 0.6.0. Some files still fall short on in-camera Dynamic Range Optimizer shots.
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- **Dark, muted scenes:** LightCraft applies only part of the camera look to them, so they can start duller than the camera JPEG. This is not fixed in 0.7.1 ([issue 865](https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/issues/865)).
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- **Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Sony A7 IV:** reported dull on 0.4.0 and fine on 0.6.0.
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- **Leica DNG:** these files carry a colour matrix but no tone curve, so LightCraft shows them darker and flatter than the camera JPEG. This is not fixed in 0.7.1 ([pull request 807](https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/807)).
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- **Adobe RGB:** if the camera was set to Adobe RGB, 0.6.0 and older read the embedded JPEG as sRGB and matched to a too-dull target. Fixed in 0.7.1: LightCraft reads the JPEG in the colour space the raw file states.
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- **Black-and-white picture style:** a raw shot in a monochrome picture style started about 1.3 EV darker than the same camera's colour shots. Since 0.7.1, LightCraft takes the tone from the camera's black-and-white JPEG.
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## A soft picture after zooming in
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If a large raw looks soft right after you zoom in, wait a few seconds. LightCraft first shows the fit-size picture enlarged, then renders the zoomed area from the full-resolution raw and swaps it in. On a 61 MP file this can take a few seconds. If it stays soft at **Zoom 100%** (**View** > **Zoom 100%**), report it.
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## Still stuck?
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Ask in [Discord](https://discord.gg/artcraft) or open an issue in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/issues).
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