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djeyewater
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September 6, 2018
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Colours different in ACR from Bridge & PS

  • September 6, 2018
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My question is slightly different from previous ones. Colours show the same in Bridge previews and Photoshop, but are much more vibrant in ACR. I have two monitors, the main one is a 10bit wide(ish) gamut, the other a standard sRGB. I only see the strong colours in ACR on the main monitor, on the sRGB one ACR, Bridge and PS all display the same. Both screens have been calibrated with an i1 Pro.

In the image below the wide-ish gamut monitor is on the left, the sRGB on the right:

My Colour settings in PS are set to monitor colour, so PS always asks me whether to use the current working space or the image profile (aRGB) when opening images. I always choose to use the image profile, but have also tried discarding the profile and converting it, which makes no noticeable difference.

In ACR, if I change the output profile to the monitor profile then open in PS, it doesn't make any difference - the image in PS appears the same (i.e. less saturated than in ACR).

So I am not quite sure where my issue is - if ACR is displaying images with the wrong profile or PS and Bridge are? And what to do about it?

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    Correct answer D Fosse

    djeyewater  wrote

    My Colour settings in PS are set to monitor colour

    Don't ever do that. That will get you into a lot of trouble down the road. Set it to "preserve embedded" and don't change it again.

    The problem here is an old bug (Adobe and/or OS is hard to say) - which causes ACR to sometimes use the wrong monitor profile in a dual monitor setup. It's been reported in the feedback forum, but I don't know if anything came out of it.

    The only fix I know of is to change display assignments in the OS, so that the ACR window is on the main display.

    I use single monitor setups, so I can't reproduce it. But there have been many reports here and in the PS/ACR forums, for quite some time.

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    September 6, 2018

    djeyewater  wrote

    My Colour settings in PS are set to monitor colour

    Don't ever do that. That will get you into a lot of trouble down the road. Set it to "preserve embedded" and don't change it again.

    The problem here is an old bug (Adobe and/or OS is hard to say) - which causes ACR to sometimes use the wrong monitor profile in a dual monitor setup. It's been reported in the feedback forum, but I don't know if anything came out of it.

    The only fix I know of is to change display assignments in the OS, so that the ACR window is on the main display.

    I use single monitor setups, so I can't reproduce it. But there have been many reports here and in the PS/ACR forums, for quite some time.

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    djeyewaterAuthor
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    September 6, 2018

    Thanks very much for the help. Swapped the order my monitors were plugged into my graphics card and ACR is now displaying the images correctly.

    I've also changed the settings from Monitor colour to Adobe RGB and the settings to preserve as you advise.

    Thanks again!

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