ACR color space

I'm shooting in srgb but acr is opening the images in rgb. I just updated to cs5 and dont remember having to convert to srgb in raw. Any help?

Click the "blue url" underneath the image in ACR. You can choose sRGB there.

RAW files are not color image files, therefore they have no color space. The conversion to a working space is part of the process of generating a rendered image (tif, psd or jpg) so the camera space setting only refers to jpgs that the camera makes. Every RAW converter has to be instructed to do its own conversion to a working space and in ACR the choices are sRGB, Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB. Probably your previous ACR was set to sRGB and since that was what you wanted anyways you weren't aware that it could be changed. Now you can either find the setting in ACR and put it on sRGB or continue to let it output another space and then convert to sRGB in PS, although a double conversion doesn't make much sense if it can be avoided.

Thats the thing, I could have sworn I had it set so whenever I open a raw file it automatically used the srgb colorspace and not rgb.?

It uses the last used setting AFAIK.

Bob Hasty wrote in post #12369592
Thats the thing, I could have sworn I had it set so whenever I open a raw file it automatically used the srgb colorspace and not rgb.?

I'm not clear as to what you are seeing -- when you say the Raw file "opens in rgb" where are you seeing this?

In ACR, underneath the photo in the center is the clickable link to change it to srgb. Before I set it so all my photos shot in srgb opened up in acr as srgb, not rgb.

And you are saying that the link shows something other than Adobe RGB, sRGB or ProPhoto RGB? Mine (CS3) also has a Color Match RGB, but there is no "plain" RGB.

Is it possible that yours is set to Adobe RGB but you are just mistaking that for "plain" RGB?

In any case, it's simple to just click that link and set it to sRGB -- do work on a photo and click Done or something other than Cancel and the new setting should "stick".

ACR remembers your color profile per camera. Click the blue link below the image and choose the color space you want. As people have said raw images have no color space, it's just data at that point.