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Camera RAW 16.1 sRGB Colors Don't Match sRGB workspace in Photoshop 25.3.1 Windows 11

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December 30, 2023
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Following updating to the current versions, opening a Sony ARW file in camera raw set to sRGB displays the colors as oversaturated (not color managed). Immediately opening the file, with no edits, in photoshop displays the colors correctly (workspace: sRGB) on a windows 11 HDR-on system.

If I apply Camera Raw as a filter to the image in PS, the colors are once again oversaturated/incorrect when displayed in ACR.

Enabling/disabling GPU acceleration has no effect on this issue.

I did not have this problem in November. I'm not sure which Dec update broke for me.

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Correct answer ps4vde00

Since people are still finding this issue, this is what I do:

Before starting photoshop, right-click on your desktop, choose "display options." Switch "Use HDR" to off. Your windows desktop colors will now look over-saturated, but when you open Photoshop, both the workspace and Camera Raw should correctly color-manage the image (assuming your windows color managements settings are correct). When you're done editing the image in Photoshop, switch "Use HDR" back on.

Hope that helps!

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ps4vde00AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Since people are still finding this issue, this is what I do:

Before starting photoshop, right-click on your desktop, choose "display options." Switch "Use HDR" to off. Your windows desktop colors will now look over-saturated, but when you open Photoshop, both the workspace and Camera Raw should correctly color-manage the image (assuming your windows color managements settings are correct). When you're done editing the image in Photoshop, switch "Use HDR" back on.

Hope that helps!

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ticketcasey

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Thank you! That does seem to be doing the trick at least in the couple of images I tried tonight. This only recently started happening to me (I have a Dell XPS as well) and I have been pulling my hair out over it!

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ps4vde00Author

Inspiring

glad it helped!

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ticketcasey

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I have the same issue currently and it's driving me crazy!

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ps4vde00Author

Inspiring

OK, I think I've found the cause of the problem. This works as of the current version of PS/Camera RAW.

My system had "Use Windows Display Calibration" checked in Color Management --> Advanced. Unchecking it has restored Camera Raw to the desired behavior. Thank goodness!

Note that to get at this checkbox, you have to click "Change System Defaults" and then choose the Advanced tab from there. Good luck!

D Fosse

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In other words, and to keep it simple: Photoshop color manages correctly, ACR does not. ACR is apparently using the wrong monitor profile.

We need more info about your setup:

What calibrator are you using?

What type of monitor (standard gamut or wide gamut/P3)?

Multi-monitor setup or single screen?

It would also help to see an ACR/PS side by side screenshot.

The workflow option for color space in ACR is irrelevant. That has no bearing on how it displays the image, only how it's encoded for sending to Photoshop. The color space set in ACR will override your working space in Photoshop, so the PS working space is also irrelevant.

What you see on screen is the result of the conversion from the source color space (linear ProPhoto in ACR; sRGB in Photoshop) and into your monitor profile.

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ps4vde00Author

Inspiring

Here's a side-by-side of a random image opened in photoshop and also an ACR window applied as a filter to that same image.

System is a Dell XPS laptop with an OLED wide-gamut display. Windows 11. No 3rd party calibration software. Running the manufacturer's monitor profile, with windows --> system --> display --> "use HDR" = on

This setting ensures that windows explorer and non-color managed apps correctly display sRGB content on my laptop's wide-gamut display. Prior to the latest (?) PS update, I did not have this issue with ARC showing oversatured colors/not matching the PS environment.

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touchoffaith89

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I've not seen any other reports of people experiencing this, but thanks for posting! It's nice to know there's at least one other case.

I haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling PS from scratch. That would probably be a good thing to try.

The workaround I'm using is either using my hardware-calibrated monitor, which takes the job of color management away from Windows/Adobe (best), or, when I want to work on my laptop screen, using DWM_LUT to apply a 3dLut to my Windows desktop. You can search for how to do that on the DisplayCal forums. It's not a perfect solution, but it's a lot better than nothing.

Here is another thread where someone was having this issue recently:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/images-appear-too-saturated-in-camera-raw/m-p/14387913
They ended up going back to a previous version of Camera Raw and it fixed the issue as far as the images not looking the same in ACR and PS. However, you lose the ability to use the new features, which I use often. I tried that and ended up going back to the current version and we're back to the images not matching.

The others I found that have had this issue were from the past few years and its hard to tell if the issues ever got resolved for them.

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