Lightroom introducing tint to images

[Greenninja]

While importing images to lightroom last night I noticed that the white balance is introducing a tint - usually between +4 and +13 on the tint bar. Images are RAW and mostly shot with AWB.

It's seems to have been doing this forever, but I've only really noticed this recently with a certain preset I created. I'm concerened that I've got used to it now as some older images seem to suffer if I set it to zero.

Lightroom is running pretty much out of the box with no customisation to it.

Just wondered if anyone has as similar issue or knows why or even if this is normal.

Lightroom 2 BTW.

 

[Richard King]

its normal

 

[zulupentax]

I use LR3 and it does the same.
I think it has to do with the default settings which adds some sharpening as well

 

[Greenninja]

Cool - I was a bit worried I'd maybe set a default setting to something unusual.

 

[dalex_257]

While importing images to lightroom last night I noticed that the white balance is introducing a tint - usually between +4 and +13 on the tint bar. Images are RAW and mostly shot with AWB.

It's seems to have been doing this forever, but I've only really noticed this recently with a certain preset I created. I'm concerened that I've got used to it now as some older images seem to suffer if I set it to zero.

Lightroom is running pretty much out of the box with no customisation to it.

Just wondered if anyone has as similar issue or knows why or even if this is normal.

Why do you think its an issue? The WB cannot be set by colour temperature alone. WB (under the hood) is a set of multipliers applied to R and B channels and as such single colour temperature settings does not map well into all possible combination of them. The temperature slider sets the average value for R and B channel multipliers and tint sways that value between R and B. The tint set to 0 does not therefor mean neutral - it means average for whatever temperature was selected.

The alternative raw converters like RPP on Mac do not offer the temperature/tint controls at all for example but directly the R and B multipliers (well Green as well but that should not be tweaked really).