Lightroom3 exporting colors are whack

[StunGunAshley]

yea, I whack.

I am having serious trouble with the colors lightroom is exporting. I recently shot my niece's baptism, and the lighting in the church wasn't optimal, so I knew I had some LR tweaking to do. Luckily, I shot in RAW and jPEG. This was my first real go around with RAW, and after editing, I was actually happy with the results... until I exported them to jpeg. What looked great in LR looked horrible in the exported files, everyone was dark and reddish. I tried all 3 colorspaces (sRGB, AdobeRGB 1998, and ProPhotoRGB) and they all looked bad. I even tried tiffs. So thinking it was something to do with the RAW conversion, I just sat here and edited the original jpegs, till I again was happy with what I saw in LR, but it still exported crap. I'm using beta2 of LR3.

Has anyone else had this problem? Am I doing something wrong? I don't claim to be a LR expert. Please help!

Thank you!

[zona5101]

Check all the boxes in your export window to ensure there is nothing funny going on there. Sounds like you have already tried the color setting and the bit depth is at (8?) If after all that and you're looking at them on the same monitor, I would consider a mismatch in the settings of application you are using to view them post processing. This is a complete guess as I haven't experienced what you describe.

[jsherp]

This may be a dumb question, but have you messed with the white balance at all? I find that my D5000 shoots a little hotter than I prefer when I use the "Auto" whitebalance setting. I have glued a gray piece of paper to a thin slat of wood to carry in my gadget bag so I can now use the "Preset" setting for the white balance, and change it as the light changes during a shoot. Take a look at adjusting the white balance in LR. You might be able to get the reddish tinge out by going a little cooler.

[hynek]

Which viewer do you use? When having discrepancies between LR and exports, it's a matter of color management most of the time.

To make it short: IrfanView sucks (no color management), FastStone is okayish (converts embedded profile to sRGB), XnView seems to work fine. When in doubt, have a look at it in Photoshop or ViewNX.

You also may have instaleld a strange monitor profile.