Bridge 2020 is not able to preview EXR 32 bits correctly

Question

Bridge is not able to preview EXR 32 bits correctly. Previews are always very dark, like underexposed. Only if you zoom at 100% the display is correct. We already tried to purge cache, use software render instead of hardware, update all the drivers, etc Nothing change. We never had such issue with CC 2018.

Anyone has similar issue?

gary_sc · Answer

Just to let you know, unless you have a very very expensive screen, the vast majority of screens cannot work with much more than an 8-bit image. As such, most of the time when you're looking at a 16 or 32 bit image, without interpolation, you'll see a fraction of the data in the image and it may shift dark or may shift light or may shift in the middle. My guess is that by opening the image into Photoshop or ACR, you let the software learn and deal with the higher bit data.

At this point you are still LOOKING at an 8-bit image that behind the screen is a 32 bit image.

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