Here’s What To Do When Lightroom Darkens Your Photos – Rick McEvoy Photography

When you open a RAW file in Lightroom the first thing that you see is a JPEG preview. Once Lightroom has processed the data in the RAW file the JPEG preview is replaced by the RAW file. The RAW file is unprocessed, so appears darker, flatter, duller and with less contrast. Lightroom is not darkening your image, it is displaying the unprocessed RAW file.