Images appear too saturated in Camera Raw
When I few images (whether they be RAW files or jpgs) in Camera Raw, they appear very oversaturated.
I've been trying to tackle this as a color profile problem with my PC, as I have had some issues getting the right calibration in the past and did find some issues with Windows assigning my monitors with the wrong number. I'll also be the first to admit I don't know 100% what I'm doing. But I can confirm I've reset color management profiles, as well as changed my color profiles numerous times as part of testing (to always the same result: changing my PC's color profiles did not change the oversaturated look in Camera Raw.)
So after endlessly searching and trying just about every solution I could find, I finally tried reverting Camera Raw from version 16+ to version 14.1 (downloaded it here: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html)
And it fixed the problem. When using Camera Raw 14.1, I get a very brief flash of the oversaturated color, but then it goes back to matching what the image looks like in my Photoshop workspace, allowing me to work and adjust colors accurately within Camera Raw.
But while this does fix the oversaturation problem, it doesn't help that there are features within Camera Raw 16+ that I really like and want to use that are not available in 14.1. Using this solution, I've lost a lot of use I had for Camera Raw in the first place.
So... what do I do? The original problem cropped up during a period when nothing had knowingly changed on my PC, but I do have auto-updates for Adobe Creative Cloud running. This small version test also seems to imply the issue might be somewhere within Adobe's software, but I feel like I've changed every single related setting 100s of times to no avail. I even recently tried Adobe's Cleaner Tool with a fresh reinstall of Bridge, Photoshop, and Camera Raw, and that did not change anything. And just to say, I've also tried earlier versions of these products, and somehow they didn't fix the problem, either (and, still, even if it did work, I'd lose lots of great features doing this.)
Any ideas? I feel like I've already read and followed just about every thread relating to this topic, but maybe someone knows something I haven't already tried.
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