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Same image displayed in PS and LR, different color

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I have one image file : tiff (Adobe rgb 98) , and displayed it simultaneously in PS and in LR.
This image was not processed on my own computer, so I just read it from a windows folder for PS, and import it in LR without any processing.
In LR, the image displayed is the 1:1 preview, looking the same in library or develop mode.
In PS the color parameter is 'keep embedded profile'.
When i switch from PS to LR, the difference is quite obvious, in PS the colors are warmer, reds are more visible , more saturated.
The screen is Eizo hardware calibrated ;
PS is using the screen icc profile defined in windows, for LR i guess it should be the same ?
And similar result with another image file jpg , srgb
Any idea where the difference is coming from ?

( LR 15.5.1 and PS 27.10.0 )
 
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Test whether the color profile assigned to the display is incompatible with LR:
http://www.lightroomqueen.com/artic...nitor-profile-to-check-whether-its-corrupted/

If using sRGB as the display profile, you see the same colors in in PS and LR, that indicates that something about the previous display profile was incompatible with LR. It may be that Windows Update replaced that profile with a bogus profile (something Windows is prone to do), or perhaps the profile is a v4 profile (which isn't always compatible with LR). In Eizo's Color Navigator, go to Preferences > General and set Version to 2.2 instead of 4.2.
 
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John , Johan,
Thanks for your suggestions.
I will try anyway with srgb as monitor profile, but I don't think the Color Navigator' profile , which is V2 , is the problem.
Looks like the PS bug.
Thanks !
 
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A last related question.
Displaying an Adobe rgb image in PS means converting Adobe rgb (keep embedded profile) -> monitor profile
The same in LR : converting adobe rgb -> prophoto (melissa) during import and then converting to monitor profile ?
If this is correct, is it possible to produce a visible difference ?
 
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LR always preserves the photo's original pixel representation and embedded profile in the photo's file on disk. In Develop, LR / Camera Raw converts the photo on the fly internally to Melissa RGB for the purposes of editing (but it never saves that back to the photo's file). In Library, previews are generated and saved in Adobe RGB in the preview cache (but not written back to the photo's file).

To display on the screen, LR translates the Develop / Melissa RGB and the Library / Adobe RGB representations to the display profile on the fly.
 
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