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Photoshop Beta 27.9 on Apple MBP M1 Max running OSX Tahoe 26.5.2

When I look at an image in Lightroom it looks as it should, however when I open it in Photoshop it appears very bright, as if a curves or gamma has been applied to it. If I open the “covert to profile” menu the preview looks normal. If I turn proof colors on it appears as it should. However with proofing off it returns to it’s very bright state. Same as with anything that shows a preview, preview looks normal. I tried Sony ARW raw files and tif’s, no difference.

It was ok on Friday, problem started with open today, July 13th.

See attached screenshots

Any advice on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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James318060693eri

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I have managed to find a way to resolve this which may help. Like many i have an HDR capable system, but it is always switched off at the OS level. With photoshop or beta opened, at the OS level i switched HDR on....problem dissapears 100%, no more saturation or contrast issues. Switch it back off at OS level, then it returns right in front of your eyes. Hope that helps, be interesting to see how many this works for

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Robert22856253yac5

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The error was fixed, but how did Adobe manage to ship a product with such a dumb, common error?

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Precious_Shimmerd09a

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I am having this problem still. I’m so frustrated. I’ve called adobe and spent over an hour on the phone with them. They did all that was suggested here and it still isn’t working on my end. I open a photo in camera raw/bridge and it looks great, then I open it in photoshop and within 2 seconds all my highlights blow out. Light pink dress loses all details and doesn’t even look pink. I’ve googled, I’ve read, I’ve checked and unchecked, restarted, and even bumped to a earlier version of Photoshop and NOTHING! It’s still there. I’ve downloaded the Beta version of photoshop off one of the suggestion and it works normal in there. To be honest I don’t even know what the beta version is? Is that a long term fix? I’m panicking on not being able to continue editing with all the work I have this season. Please help!

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CShubert

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Please share your system information: Help/System Info and we will try to see what might still be the cause for your issue.

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager

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CShubert

Community Manager

Hi everyone… please update to the latest Ps Beta: Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.10.0 20260802.m.3625 and confirm this has solved this issue.

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager

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Deepstare

Participating Frequently

Great! Quick question, can you tell us what they broke in this update? Would save a lot of time trying to find a workaround for whatever got screwed up in this latest release, thanks!

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CShubert

Community Manager

Hi all, the update is on the way - in the meantime, the most correct fix in the current build is:

Go to Preferences/Technology Previews
ENABLE `Precise color management for HDR display`
Restart Photoshop

The name of the setting sounds counterintuitive, but it should be ON at this time even when HDR display or images are not involved. This will allow you to keep GPU acceleration and get the correct color management of the document to display the same as before this bug showed up.

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager

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Deepstare

Participating Frequently

Why is it your “updates” are always in the other direction? Don’t you ever check your homework? Don’t you think this looks incredibly embarassing that you have to issue and update for your update?

Considering the price of Adobe software, are you outsourcing your work to some sort of call center?

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4Eye

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I also have this problem and my temporary workaround has been to export from Lightroom to Photoshop 2026 rather than the Beta version.

Hopefully a proper fix will appear soon.

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4Eye

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I also have this problem and my temporary workaround is to export from Lightroom to Photoshop 2026 rather than the Beta version. Hopefully a proper fix will come soon.

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S.Guenther

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Just spend an hour on the phone with Adobe, in preferences the default is to have the BOX checked to have my Mac do the graphics processing, if I un-click the box it defaults to PhotoShop and the RAW file load correctly

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