Lightroom question?

[red delicious]

I'm editing some RAW files in Lightroom. After making some adjustments, I went back to get a closer look at the images and, after loading, the colors and contrast dim. It looks even worse than when originally imported.

Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to stop it?

[paul48503]

Try reset and try again.

[Sonny]

I could be wrong, but here it goes.....

The picture you see in LR is exactly the picture your camera sensor recorded. It's likely that you are used to seeing the preview on the camera display. That preview is not your RAW file, but a JPG which has been processed by the electronics inside your camera. Or, you may be using your camera manufacturer's proprietary RAW conversion software. That software has a post-processing advantage in that it can utilize proprietary 'secret' information embedded in RAW files, which is undocumented and unavailable to third party programs such as LR and ACR.