Photoshop 5 had only one working space. All documents are treated as if they are in that space. If your PS 5 space is AdobeRGB, and you open an sRGB image without conversion, you're telling it "don't change the numbers -- treat it as if it were already AdobeRGB". But of course it's not -- it's sRGB, so you get oversaturated colors.
Photoshop CS keeps track of each document's color space separately. When you tell it not to convert the sRGB document, it keeps track of the fact that it's sRGB and displays it correctly. When you convert to the working space of Adobe RGB, it converts it and displays that correctly. You could use "convert to profile", and convert to any other space, and it would display *that* correctly. The only time you'll see an obvious change is when you take a document in a large gamut space that contains very saturated colors and convert it to a much smaller gamut space that can't represent those colors. In CS, the working space is just the space to which documents are converted when you say to convert to the working space. It doesn't affect the interpretation of any document that has another associated profile (as in PS 5). Russell =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
