ACR is Darkening Photos

Ok, I upload my photos with Canon's Digital Photo Professional. I preview them there, so I can write down file numbers to edit in PS CS5. I then open them in Bridge. As the files are opening, you can see each photo darkening from first to last. Comparing them side by side, with the same file (DPP vs. CS5 Bridge), The exposure has dropped somewhere between 1.5-2 stops. I'm quite sure this is a color/monitor management issue, and that is something I know little about. What info. do I need to give, so I can remedy this? Thank you in advance for your help with this!

I think I may be one of the folks D Fosse is referring to when he says "some people".
It's not always clear to Photoshop / Camera Raw users that there's not just one rendering that can be made from raw camera data. In fact, there are a virtually infinite number.
The important thing is that Camera Raw's default rendering IS DIFFERENT from that delivered by the camera or the camera maker's own raw converter.
This is to be expected.
Since I have always liked Canon's interpretation of the color from my camera (Canon 40D), have wished my default conversions could start with that color, and I made it known on the forum, a very knowledgeable Camera Raw forum member named Vit Novak was kind enough to generate a Camera Raw profile for me that actually did make the colors from Camera Raw match those from DPP.
This pleased me very much, and actually solved a major complaint I had - that Camera Raw conversions with the Adobe profiles yield somewhat lifeless skies and poor transitions into overexposure.
But you should know that we then proceeded to improve things...
To make a long story short, he provided a better profile that actually solved some problems with the Canon color, and I set some Camera Raw settings to other than center-scale. I now get images that aren't *quite* the same as the camera/DPP color - they're better.
Looking back, I realize that we followed Adobe at least part way down the path they took in deciding not to try to emulate the color made by cameras and other raw converters, but to provide defaults that they feel are better.
I think what you really want to do, in embracing Raw shooting, is to develop a set of Camera Raw defaults that give you what you feel is a pleasing starting point. Understanding why we see what we see is a good first step in developing defaults you like.
-Noel

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You should really try some of the better adjustment tools, but you can probably cure the problem by resetting your preferences as described in the FAQ.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ef4a07f/1
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I was hoping someone else would jump in -- I don't use Facebook, and so can't offer advice there except to say that you are likely correct that you can't move Images out of Projects after they are in a Facebook Album (iirc). A quick search of the forum should turn up useful Facebook-specific information.
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HTH,
--Kirby.

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You've used too few words.
However, I'll make a couple of guesses:
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No matter what I try when I open my pictures in photoshop, they look different than they did in ACR. I have gone throuhg all the color settings and even made sure to synchronize my settings between the two. Still, when I open an image that I've edited in camera raw into photoshop it looks different. Sometimes this is very minor, but sometimes it is enough to ruin an image.
Any ideas?

John,
This should not happen.
I can only speculate that you might somehow have some Photoshop default color settings out of whack. Just speculating, but assume that your default RGB profile is Adobe RGB. Then assume that your settings say, Convert to Working RGB under Color Management Policies. All this with no warnings set.
Now if you open the image with ACR in Pro Photo RGB it will be converted to Adobe RGB when it gets to Photoshop. Some colors may be altered if they are out of gamut in the target space. Depending on your conversion options, these changes may be visible. With other profiles such as sRGB vs aRGB the differences will be much more subtle.
If you have off selected under Color Management Policies, you can expect all sorts of bizarre behavior.
Nothing else makes sense to me.
Cheers, Rags :-)

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Balance is important if you want to make the most of your $800. Perhaps the Tom's Hardware builds would be a good place to start.
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When you sign in to Adobe.com with the user ID and Password your using in the Creative Cloud and Photoshop does this link https://www.adobe.com/account/my-products-services.html show that the account has a subscription?
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(2)
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I just received the following from the Apple Aperture Forum :
Exporting Images to an External Editor
Aperture provides an easy way to transfer images to another application for changes and then bring the revised images back into Aperture. You can specify an application as an external editor in the Export pane of the Preferences window. For example, if your image editing sometimes requires one or more of the specialized tools available in Adobe Photoshop, you can select Photoshop as your external editor. You can then select an image and choose Photos > Edit With > [application name]. Aperture makes a new master and version of your image and opens it in Adobe Photoshop. After you make your changes and save the image, the revised version automatically reappears in Aperture. The external editor doesn’t change the original master.
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When you’ve finished modifying the image, audio, or video file in the external application, save the file.
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Your video card is fine.
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