Author Topic: Color Profiles, PM View Doesn't Match Files Viewed in Photoshop  (Read 331 times)

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When I look at previews in Photo Mechanic, Photo Mechanic Plus Version 2025.1, build 8239 images are significantly less color saturated when compared to the same file open in Photoshop or in the Adobe ACR interface after I've made adjustment decisions to convert the raw file. I have Photoshop set to use Adobe RGB (1998). I have the color management turned on in PM. If I turn off the color management in PM clicking the gamma display icon at the top right of the preview window the mismatch is even worse. I don't know when this started. I've mostly been working outside all summer so color matching hasn't been an issue. I did a particularly nasty indoor job this week, north blue sky light coming through green tinted window glass and the problem was really obvious. I'm on an M2 Mac laptop in clam shell mode viewing the images on an Apple 27" Studio Display. Thank you in advance for any guidance.

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Re: Color Profiles, PM View Doesn't Match Files Viewed in Photoshop
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2025, 10:04:13 AM »
Followup. I converted a tiff made from Adobe ACR converter that was in the Adobe (1998) profile to an sRGB jpg. The .jpg and the tiff look the same in PM. But when I upload the sRGB .jpg to my website it now matches how it looked in Photoshop. Also when viewed on a 2020 MacBook Air and my iPhone it pretty closely resembles the Photoshop presentation. I realize that PM is not a program that one uses for color correction or exposure adjustment, but I don't remember it being this different from how Photoshop or ACR presents the file