Why is Photoshop showing images cooler than they actually are?

Hi everyone,
I work with Lightroom and Photoshop together, but when I open a file from Lightroom to Photoshop, the images look a touch cooler in Photoshop. At first I thought my colour settings must be off but they're the same in both Apps.
Even weirder, when I take a screenshot with Monosnap and look at the image in Finder, the colour looks normal... So it's as if Photoshop were showing me the image cooler but it's not changed at all.
Any ideas?

If there is a difference between Photoshop and Lightroom the most likely cause is a bad/broken/wrong monitor profile. This can affect different applications differently. To test this, set sRGB IEC61966-2.1 as monitor profile on system level, and relaunch the applications so that they can load the new profile:
There is normally no particular need to have color settings synchronized between PS and Lr. Color management works the same way in both of them. The source color space is remapped/converted into the monitor color space, and the end result should be identical whatever that source is.
Some other applications, however, aren't color managed at all, and just ignore the monitor profile completely.
To get a correct screenshot from a color managed application, assign the monitor profile first, then convert to sRGB.

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