Different Color "camera Raw - Photoshop
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Good morning everyone, maybe someone has already raised the question.
I received my new mac a few days ago and installed Photoshop, LRc and other apps. However, I noticed that the colors I see in PS are different when I open CamRaw. I checked all the settings of each component and they all appear to be the same. (I list them below).
- Raw camera preferences: ADOBE RGB
- PS color profile: Adobe RGB
- BENQ SW270C monitor set to ADOBE RGB
- Mac settings, monitor: ADOBE RGB.
- OS
- Monitor recently calibrated.
- I only have Single monitor
Am I missing something?
Has anyone had the same problem?
Thanks for any replies
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First of all, there is no reason to match all these profiles, and in fact you shouldn't.
- Set ACR to open in the color space you prefer, like Adobe RGB. This profile will be embedded into the processed RGB file ACR sends to Photoshop, and override any other working space you may have set there.
- The main thing in Photoshop is to have policies set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles". This is the only important setting!
- Set your monitor to Native, not any emulation like Adobe RGB. The monitor has its own native color space, and that's fine. It's not supposed to match anything else. Any preset will only limit its capabilities.
- Run the calibration software. When it's done calibrating, it will measure the monitor's color space in that calibrated state, and write a monitor profile that describes how the monitor behaves, in detail. It's a standard icc profile.
- This profile is automatically set as system default for that monitor. You don't need to do anything. When Photoshop starts up, it gets this profile from the operating system.
- Photoshop - and, independently, ACR! - uses this monitor profile in a standard profile conversion, from the source color space into the monitor color space. Those corrected numbers are sent to screen. This way, the image is correctly represented on screen.
Get all these ducks in a row first, then come back if it still doesn't look right.
EDIT: looking closer at the screenshot, there is something strange going on in the highlights. It's clearly the monitor profile, but it's not clipping; it looks like the whole tone curve is different, in all channels. The takeaway from that is that it's not a defective profile, it looks like the wrong profile. Which again brings me back to what I wrote above.

