IMO it's a lot better to have an sRGB to Linear VOP node since your workflow is likely to want to spit out an sRGB texture from Photoshop/3D Coat/whatever, having to convert that each time you save is painful.
So you don't use .rat files ?
IMO it's a lot better to have an sRGB to Linear VOP node since your workflow is likely to want to spit out an sRGB texture from Photoshop/3D Coat/whatever, having to convert that each time you save is painful.