Hello!
Last year my trusty iMac from 2013 crashed and I thought, lets buy a new Mac, because I always buy secondhand stuff. After working with B/W photographs for almost ten years I also dabbled into color again, so I bought a Mac Studio M2, an LG screen and a Spyder5 Pro.
Immediately I realised Photoshop was [cursing removed] my images. In ACR (Camera Raw) everything looks fine, I spent around 30min finetuning everything and then opening it up in PS, only to see my shadows are lifted/crushed/posterized. See image below, notice the difference in the shadows? Mind you, I am looking at this image on a calibrated Adobe RGB screen, I don't see the difference on my iPad, iPhone or old iMac monitors as well.
So.. I thought this must be something related to my new gear, as I've never had this problem before. I asked around on this forum, other fora, Adobe customer service, even spoke an 'PS-expert' I met in our store and a friend who is a professional printer came by. Adobe customer service never helped, which is a shame because I am paying Adobe for PS/LR for more than a decade by now 😞
In the end I also got an Mac Mini M2, a BenQ SW240 and a Colorite Display SL. I've tested on/with 3 different screens, 3 different Macs, 3 different calibration tools, 2 different callibration software. I re-installed every version of PS/ACR I could legally find, re-installed different MacOS and toyed around with every cable I had access to. The monitor profile is not faulty as it works [cursing removed] everywhere except for Photoshop itself. Affinity Photo, Affinity publisher, inDesign, Lightroom and ACR show me the exact same picture.
In the end I just use LR now as it almost the full package for professional photography apparentely.. (didn't touch LR since 2013). But it still bugs me out that I invested so much time and money on this and seeing other people on the interwebs struggling with the same problem and there is no diagnosis of what this could be and how to fix it.
I just thought I would post it again, in case somebody is also looking for a solution. I've hear multiple people and some studios migrating everything over to Affinity, because of this kind of bugs and no response from Adobe. I get that Adobe is just another company that puts profit first and is focussing fully on exploiting AI. And that, especially, as a studio you're eager to migrate to a new software made by a company that still has to prove itself, so they're willing to listen and help their customers. But yeah! Who knows, maybe someone is reading this and thinks 'dude, you just have to flick on this option in PS and you're problem is solved and you can stop critizing this poor company'
Anyways, if you're still reading this; hope you're having a nice evening and I do wish you a peaceful weekend!
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It's not Photoshop, it's a MacOS issue. Been reported many times. Incorrect black clipping is the common symptom, exactly as in your screenshot.
See this thread, which includes a simple procedure to determine what is the correct display of the file:
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