Iliah Borg said: << Why? Much depends on what the goal is. Sometimes (often in my case) steps others consider unnecessary are necessary, and help avoid complexity. Without stating the goal and recognising goals can be different no protocol can possibly work.>> I was referring to having to convert from sRGB, AdobeRGB or ProPhotoRGB to one's working space of choice after having opened the image from Lightroom to Photoshop - because Lightroom only currently offers these options. So the current offering may be simpler, but it leads to more actions required (and so is more complex and more error-prone). If Lightroom (as I'm sure it will) allowed BetaRGB, for example, to be specified as the editing space for Photoshop (as ACR does), that extra conversion in Photoshop would not be required. Robert