Color balance issue between LrC and Ps due to conflicting versions of Camera Raw

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MacOS 12.5

Creative Cloud says I'm up to date on all my apps:

Photoshop 23.4.2

Lightroom Classic 11.4.1

Camera Raw "up to date"

However, when I open a photo in Photoshop from Lightroom, I get a warning that the versions of Camera Raw are incompatible. Lightroom says it is using Camera Raw 14.4.1 while Photoshop says it is using 14.4.0.1121. If I open the file anyway, it looks fine in Photoshop, but when I save it back in Lightroom the colors are off.

The first file below (sample.jpg) is as seen in Lightroom. The second file (sample-edit.jpg) I opened in Photoshop, cloned a little grass onto the girl's shoe (but did no other changes), then saved back in Lightroom.

TheDigitalDog · Answer

See: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-mac-camera-raw-mismatch-being-reported-from-lrc-11-4-1/m-p/13042065#M280721

It is a known bug. 14.4. is the latest version of ACR for Mac, there was a .1 that is only a fix for one bug under Windows. So it seems LR is confused by this fact and at the time, I don't know there is anything you can do until LR is updated (or ACR for Mac). All the downloads manually for ACR are here: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html#12_x

Until fixed, just use the "Render using Lightroom' option.

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