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jackdaw_1066
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August 23, 2011
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P: OCIO and ACES support for full support 32bit image editing

  • August 23, 2011
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In a similar way Affinity supports OCIO it would be great if Adobe atleast kept up. The plugin someone has made does not work properly and is far from ideal, it requires LUTs to be made for each possible combination, its not fluid at all and the result is often incorrect.

 

Full 32bit support is pretty vital in general for everything in PS

 

Photoshop is the industry leader and has been for years but if you don't keep up with the times you will loose your user base.

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    LewisMoorhead
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    September 5, 2024

    Fantastic news!

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    cody_cuellar
    Adobe Employee
    September 4, 2024

    Hi all! We're excited to announce we now support OCIO officially. Please take a look at our latest Beta, which includes official OCIO/ACES support and improved 32b tooling! The thread for info on how to use it and feedback can be found here.

      sacb0y
      sacb0y
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      January 2, 2024

      It's shameful photoshop is still behind on these things, without even any news. 

       

      I'd have fully switched to affinity if I just simply didn't like how the program worked. But I'm forced to use it for some tasks cause photoshop just lacks proper support. 

        D Fosse
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        D FosseCommunity Expert
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        January 1, 2024

        It only has 36 votes in three years. That's not much. Call everyone you know that needs this, and ask them to upvote. That's the only way.

         

        This is the official feature request channel, and upvotes will be registered.

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          Jomaro
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          January 1, 2024

          Still no sign of supporting OCIO/ACES?

            Carson Jones
            Carson Jones
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            October 16, 2023

            As a means of supporting a great many artists that use it, Photoshop needs to support OCIO / Aces asap natively.  The request has been put in directly to Adobe by several people in the past, including myself, but we're still not seeing it.  AE just implemented it.

             

            FYI - rendering out of Cinema 4D and with compositing and finishing work to be done in PS.  Should be as simple as rendering via OCIO out of Redshift and opening via OCIO in Photoshop.

              D Fosse
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              D FosseCommunity Expert
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              October 16, 2023

              As I've said before, I'm all for it as long as it doesn't interfere with standard icc based color management. OCIO is only used in the video community, which for Photoshop is a small segment of its total user base.

               

              OCIO works on exactly the same principles as icc color management, so there's no reason it couldn't be implemented. On the other hand, there are no advantages over icc color management, just a different set of reference color space and input/output color spaces adapted to common video workflows.

               

              The problem is that icc color management is at the very core of Photoshop, its whole architecture revolves around it. That's not a consideration in video apps, because traditionally, video hasn't used any color management at all. Video creators just calibrated their monitors to accepted standards, such as Rec.709 or DCI-P3, and that was close enough.

               

              The purpose of OCIO is to allow archival encoding in the large ACES color space, with output to whatever purpose appropriate. That's in itself a very sound concept, and again, parallell to standard icc color management.

               

              So I'm in no way "against" it. Just trying to put it into perspective.

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              Seb.James
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              November 21, 2022

              Just adding my bit... As Maya 2023 now renders with ACESCG as it's default with V-Ray 5, trying to composite up layered EXRs in the traditional method of adding the passes over each other to create the final beauty image [abuse removed by moderator]

               

              Can we please get an update to Photoshop sometime soon that really simplifies the matter? I'd like to be able to drop an ACEScg coloured EXR from V-Ray for Maya in to Photoshop, simply add the passes/elements together (with whatever tweaks I'd like to make), and export it without having to add in fiddly, and usually incorrect, colour correction layers to get the image in Photoshop looking exactly how it does in the frame buffer.

               

              Thank you.

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                Point Line
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                March 2, 2022

                Switch to afinity. Adobe is was good in the 20th century but they apartly can't keep up with current trends. 

                  matophmej84385528
                  matophmej84385528
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                  March 1, 2022

                  Hope Adobe will implement the OCIO in the future updats soon.

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                  petera74037225
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                  February 19, 2022

                  I've been in contact with people at Adobe a few months ago and they assure me OCIO support is currently being developed for After Effects and Photoshop. We have since seen 2 Photoshop updates, so when we see the implementation is still a mystery. Fingers crossed it arrives soon.

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