Colour in ACR different from Bridge, PS, LR

Question

Hi All, seem to be in a bad run of luck with my set up this week!

I'm getting inconsistent colours from ACR, higher saturation than in Bridge previews, photoshop and Lightroom. Bridge, PS and Lightroom all look the same, if there are any differences between those three they are subtle enough that I've not spotted them.

Last time I had a similar issue to this it was a monitor calibration issue. I've re-calibrated, set to defaults, removed old profiles, but still encounter this issue.
I didn't change anything in PS prior to discovering this, other than GPU performance settings as I've encountered a crash issue there also. Not sure if these are related.

usually, the most obvious difference to spot is on the legs, where the saturation is already very high. hopefully the included screen captures show the issue. I've tried my best to keep the images the same size to avoid any other colour shifts.

I typically do all my colour and tone work in ACR so other than moving over to LR, is there anything that can be done to get ACR to match the rest?

LR is 12.2

PS is 24.2.0

Br is 13.0.2.636

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

ACR vs PS - miss

Bridge vs PS - match

ACR vs PS - miss

LR vs ACR - miss

LR vs PS - match

David Franzen at Work · Accepted Answer

You can try to uncheck the top two levels of GPU usage here:

(although I suspect they will already be unchecked).

At present, I don't think you lose a lot of basic functionality with GPU disabled in ACR. Enhance/super resolution most likely, maybe a few other things. In Photoshop the impact would be much bigger.

The problem is that more and more functions are moved to the GPU, and you will inevitably fall further and further behind.

I think this is a known issue with the the HDR Output (HDRO) technology preview on Windows in 15.2. I see the "HDR" button in some of the screenshots showing the problem. The bug occurs when the tech preview is on even when Camera Raw is displaying SDR images.

To see if the HDR Output tech preview is on, look at the Technology Preview tab in the Camera Raw Preferences dialog. Please try turning it off, turning GPU back on and next, and this is important with this tech preview, quit and relaunch Photoshop and Bridge; the tech preview does not turn on/off w/o a relaunch of the host app. With GPU on and the HDRO tech preview off on Windows, I don't think you will see the oversaturation. This will be fixed in a future release of the HDRO tech preview. I think turning off the tech preview is a better workaround than going back to 14.5 or turning off GPU.

Thanks,

David

TheDigitalDog · Answer

Short answer: Part of this is a Bridge issue and the color space of its previews. Been discussed in the past. LR/ACR and Photoshop, all correct. You might make a post in the Bridge forum about this.

The other thing to do is examine how your display profile is being created. Do not use Version 4 (V4) spec display profiles, only V2.

Lastly you must compare all previews at 1:1 (100% zoom) as they all subsample a bit differently. Previews in Lightroom Classic must be done this way in Develop module (other modules use a different preview architecture).

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