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I've set up Adobe photo shop to work in SRGB and I've set my camera to work in SRGB

This way I shouldnt get a nasty surprise when I Upload to the web. I cant work around something though, despite having my camera on SRGB when I import the photo from camera raw into photoshop it gives me the warning that the photo has adobe rgb assigned to it and it will convert it to srgb for working on.

What am I doing wrong?

Camera raw has no colour space. It is set in the raw converter. You need to change the default to sRGB.

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I've set up Adobe photo shop to work in SRGB and I've set my camera to work in SRGB. This way I shouldnt get a nasty surprise when I Upload to the web. I cant work around something though, despite having my camera on SRGB when I import the photo from camera raw into photoshop it gives me the warning that the photo has adobe rgb assigned to it and it will convert it to srgb for working on.

Ok then - just to expand a little on what Ian has already said. Whether you have set sRGB or RGB in your camera this has no effect when the camera is set to capture RAW images. The only settings that apply when shooting RAW are ISO and whether you are shooting in AV,Tv or Manual. There is much debate as to whether the White Balance settings plays a role but for all practical purposes you can forget this as WhiBal can be altered in Camera Raw. Whether you choose to capture JPEG or RAW images it is important to remember that the sensor only captures RAW data. A colour space (as set by the user) is only applied as and when the RAW data is processed into a JPEG in-camera.

Right then - you have chosen to shoot RAW and so you will be importing RAW data without a colour space into Adobe Camera Raw. You can set up Camera Raw Settings via the drop-down menu in Bridge or in Adobe Camera Raw itself - when open. Now the reason I have highlighted the word 'Settings' is because this is NOT the same as Workflow Options and is not to be confused with the options available in Photoshop itself.

You will need to open an image in Camera Raw to access/check the following settings. With Camera Raw open you will see a button at the top of the menu section which gives you access to Camera Raw Settings. These are fairly self explanatory and not relevant to your problem and so I won't list the options here. However, at the very bottom of the open window, to the left of the Open Image, Cancel and Done buttons something that looks a bit like a web link because it should be highlighted in Blue. Listed will be the colour space options amongst other things and it sounds as though here you will be reading Adobe RGB. If you click this link it will open the Camera Raw Workflow Options and these settings are not available anywhere else. The options available to you here are the Colour Space, Bit Depth, Size and Resolution that the finished image will be sent to Photoshop in.

So you can perhaps see that if you have your Photoshop working space set to sRGB but the image is being sent from Camera Raw in RGB because of the Workflow Options you will have a mismatch. It is at the moment you now send the completed RAW image data to Photoshop that a Colour Space (amongst other things) is first applied to the image.

Hope this helps a bit? By the way, if you really want to learn all about Camera Raw I can recommend you a book entitled 'Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS3' written by Bruce Fraser (the creator of ACR - now deceased) and Jeff Schewe. For a more visual learning experience then from the Luminous Landscape web site is an 8 hour downloadable video tutorial (3GB but downloadable in smaller pieces) all about Camera Raw presented by Jeff Schewe and Michael Reichmann. Cost about $32 which at todays exchange rate is fairly reasonable. Incidentley, I have no connection with either authors or products mentioned.

I'm pretty experienced now with raw and camera raw, I just didnt know that the colour space wasnt applied in camera!

Thankyou for your help.