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Actually I do use noise removal (in ACR) religiously but with this set of images something was really wrong. I did notice that my "sharpening" was turned way up. That made a difference obviously in the overexaggerated grain in PS. It's definitely better now that I turned the sharpening down and noise removal up. There is still grain in the PS image though, but I did shoot at 2500 ISO. It looks a lot better though.

Zoomed out, there is a major difference- everything looks so nice and smooth in ACR. But yes, at 100% I agree the image in ACR and PS look identical

Two great points- I didn't even consider the RAM space needed for CS6 (thank you!) and now that I'm zooming up into ACR I'm thinking wow I guess not much difference?

Thanks for the tip- changing now. I have a PC desktop running Windows 10 and Photoshop CS6. It is over 2 years old, and has 4GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 398GB free out of 2000GB. The last time I shut down was earlier today. I rarely run a cleanup program.

Hi there, I'm wondering how come in my ACR my image looks perfect but when I "open" the image into CS6 it's ridiculously grain-y even after doing "noise reduction" in ACR . I never had this problem in older versions of Photoshop.

I fixed it. Downloaded the latest photoshop and followed this video, it worked. I will say from this day forward I vow to always use SRGB

Thanks for taking the time to help. I've read everything and tried everything it seems to no avail. I I have a PC desktop running Windows 10 and Photoshop cs5. It is over 2 years old, and has 4GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 428GB free out of 1081GB. The last time I shut down was earlier today. I rarely run a cleanup program.

Ofcourse I'm trying to screenshot bridge but if I pull that screenshot into photoshop it turns it red.

Well...Yesterday I was following some tutorial online that suggested using RGB. I also know that my bridge has been using AdobeRGB1998 for as long as I can remember and never had any problems?

Ok so this is interesting. I saved the image all wonky how It looks in PS then I wanted to save the ACR raw version (which looks fine to me) and I saved it, pulled the two images up side by side in windows picture viewer and they are identical (insert sad face) So to recap: they look fine in bridge but if I save an image from bridge (bypassing PS the image looks just as crappy as everything else does when pulled into PS) WHAT IN THE WORLD. Oh and as I'm viewing the image I've attached for you (viewing on the ask damien page) it looks totally fine (granted it's a raw sooc image that needs help) however it looks fine (not the weird saturated) on the ask damien site which is exactly how it looks in bridge (fine.) So this isn't even an accurate depiction of how messed up it looks in photoshop! WEIRD!!!!

Yep! They look great in bridge and then as soon as I open image in photoshop...BAM wonky color.

Jpeg's (with no ACR involvement) are looking awful too! Extremely red and saturated.

One screen and don't kill me but no calibrator. I haven't had any issues in 6 years and I know it's time to get one but literally 5 days ago I wasn't having this problem until I downloaded windows 10.