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Camera RAW 16.1 sRGB Colors Don't Match sRGB workspace in Photoshop 25.3.1 Windows 11

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December 30, 2023
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Following updating to the current versions, opening a Sony ARW file in camera raw set to sRGB displays the colors as oversaturated (not color managed). Immediately opening the file, with no edits, in photoshop displays the colors correctly (workspace: sRGB) on a windows 11 HDR-on system.

If I apply Camera Raw as a filter to the image in PS, the colors are once again oversaturated/incorrect when displayed in ACR.

Enabling/disabling GPU acceleration has no effect on this issue.

I did not have this problem in November. I'm not sure which Dec update broke for me.

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Correct answer ps4vde00

Since people are still finding this issue, this is what I do:

Before starting photoshop, right-click on your desktop, choose "display options." Switch "Use HDR" to off. Your windows desktop colors will now look over-saturated, but when you open Photoshop, both the workspace and Camera Raw should correctly color-manage the image (assuming your windows color managements settings are correct). When you're done editing the image in Photoshop, switch "Use HDR" back on.

Hope that helps!

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ps4vde00AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Since people are still finding this issue, this is what I do:

Before starting photoshop, right-click on your desktop, choose "display options." Switch "Use HDR" to off. Your windows desktop colors will now look over-saturated, but when you open Photoshop, both the workspace and Camera Raw should correctly color-manage the image (assuming your windows color managements settings are correct). When you're done editing the image in Photoshop, switch "Use HDR" back on.

Hope that helps!

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ticketcasey

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Thank you! That does seem to be doing the trick at least in the couple of images I tried tonight. This only recently started happening to me (I have a Dell XPS as well) and I have been pulling my hair out over it!

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ps4vde00Author

Inspiring

glad it helped!

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ticketcasey

Participant

I have the same issue currently and it's driving me crazy!

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ps4vde00Author

Inspiring

OK, I think I've found the cause of the problem. This works as of the current version of PS/Camera RAW.

My system had "Use Windows Display Calibration" checked in Color Management --> Advanced. Unchecking it has restored Camera Raw to the desired behavior. Thank goodness!

Note that to get at this checkbox, you have to click "Change System Defaults" and then choose the Advanced tab from there. Good luck!

D Fosse

Community Expert

In other words, and to keep it simple: Photoshop color manages correctly, ACR does not. ACR is apparently using the wrong monitor profile.

We need more info about your setup:

What calibrator are you using?

What type of monitor (standard gamut or wide gamut/P3)?

Multi-monitor setup or single screen?

It would also help to see an ACR/PS side by side screenshot.

The workflow option for color space in ACR is irrelevant. That has no bearing on how it displays the image, only how it's encoded for sending to Photoshop. The color space set in ACR will override your working space in Photoshop, so the PS working space is also irrelevant.

What you see on screen is the result of the conversion from the source color space (linear ProPhoto in ACR; sRGB in Photoshop) and into your monitor profile.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

The workflow option for color space in ACR is irrelevant. That has no bearing on how it displays the image, only how it's encoded for sending to Photoshop.
By @D Fosse

Doesn’t it, though? If you open ACR settings while watching the ACR image preview, the histogram, and also if you enable the clipping warnings, the image preview in ACR does definitely change as you change the workflow color space, and the clipping points change.

What I notice in the original question is that the Windows 11 system is described as “HDR-on.” That would make me go back and check the HDR settings in both ACR and Photoshop. For example, is the image in HDR edit mode in ACR, and if it is, in Photoshop is the Technology Previews setting Precise Color Management for HDR Display enabled, and is that setting working properly in Windows 11? (Last time I heard, it was a little iffy in Windows, but don’t know personally because I’m using a Mac)

D Fosse

Community Expert

@Conrad_C

In this case I decided to simplify to get the point across. Yes, Camera Raw soft proofs to the color space in workflow options.

But the overriding point I wanted to get across was that the color space setting is not the issue here. The monitor profile is. I didn't have time to explain all that.

But yes, HDR is a wild card. I didn't consider that.

(edited for a little more clarity... 😉 )

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