Bug: ACR 18.5 preview color saturation does not match Photoshop 2026 beta 27.11 canvas preview on Windows 11

Question

Environment: Photoshop 2026 Beta (27.11) Windows 11, NVIDIA GPU render only

Hardware calibrated custom ICC monitor profile.

Symptom: Colors look less saturated in Camera Raw18.5 dialog.

After click "Open Image" enter Photoshop, canvas preview is More saturated.

The exported image file is correct, same as in ACR.

What I have tried:

1. Windows: HDR & ACM auto‑color‑management OFF, unchecked "Use Windows display calibration" in colorcpl.

2. NVIDIA Studio driver installed, DDU clean reinstalled. Nvida Driver Version: 595.79/610.88 (both tried)

3. Photoshop GPU setting: Draw mode = Basic, disable GPU Composition & OpenCL. Problem still reproduces.

4. ACR performance GPU set to Limited.

5. Color space workflow options are consistent(sRGB).

6. Formal Photoshop 2026 beta(27.10) does NOT have this bug on same machine.

Workaround: Fully disable Photoshop GPU acceleration, preview becomes correct.

rowly23 · Answer

This sounds like a Photoshop 27.11 beta GPU/color-management regression rather than an issue with the exported file, especially since 27.10 works correctly on the same system.

The fact that disabling Photoshop GPU acceleration makes the ACR and Photoshop canvas previews match is a pretty strong clue. I would report it to Adobe with the exact 27.11 vs 27.10 comparison, ICC monitor profile, GPU/driver versions, and the fact that the exported file itself is correct.

As a temporary workaround, keeping GPU acceleration disabled seems reasonable if accurate color preview is more important than GPU performance. Hopefully Adobe can reproduce it and fix the preview pipeline in a subsequent beta.

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