Green patches after using auto haze removal

So i tested the op's camera raw photo in photoshop elements 2019, the last pse version that allows one to open the camera raw file in the Adobe RGB (1998) color space and in 16 bits/channel running camera raw 12.4, depending on what camera profile is set in camera raw, you can still see the green areas in View %s below 50%.

 

 

By @Jeff Arola

And at 100%?

Several of my sunset photos exhibit the same after Enhance>Auto Haze Removal, but only if they are 16 bits/channel.

If converted to 8 bits/channel then no green with the Auto Haze.

By @Jeff Arola

Exactly. 

Three of us on the PhotoNet forums (one of three the OP posted this 'issue' on) have been dealing with this for almost a week. 

It's not GPU or a display profile, the first area we suspected. It's simply some overlay preview that only shows up in 16-bit images and disappears when zooming in. It's not in the data. 

I've thrown half a dozen different raws at this after downloading Elements 2023, but I can't make it happen for me. 

The one attribute we saw with the raw supplied by Frans was it was 3 EV underexposed and then greatly brightened using Exposure along with some other edits and then ended up in sRGB from Adobe Camera Raw 'lite' used in Elements. At this point, there's no issue (other than massively under-exposed and over-processed sRGB). Only after running Haze Removal (auto or otherwise), does the green overlay appear at default zoom but goes away after zooming in. 

I saw a really odd redraw from the 8-bit per color processed raw in the Haze Removal dialog on the same image. All this is outlined and shown and shown on the PhotoNet forum posts already provided. 

There's no real issue here! Yes, there's some odd green overlay at a few zoom levels. The real problem is how it shows up (at least, for the one raw we three could make it show) on this very under-exposed and over-developed image. 

If I had to venture a guess (which I hate doing) and based on some testing by John on that forum, this overlay matches the clipping overlay one sees in Adobe Camera Raw. It is almost like after Haze Removal, the OOG overlay (that doesn't exist in Elements) somehow appears. It could be some stray Photoshop code, but this is a guess. 

Someone might be able to file a bug report, but damn, it's tough, at least for those of us on the other forum to come up with images ourselves that show this. Maybe you can provide some. But in the grand scheme of things, this 'issue' is benign. That we can't get Adobe Camera Raw "lite" to give us a rendering encoded into Adobe RGB (1998) seems a much more critical bug to fix and supply to customers. 

The green overlay disappears when zooming in. Nothing seen at 1:1.

Hi Greg. Funny thing is yesterday it worked fine, today it doesn't, without any changes that I'm aware off. I use PSE 2021 and Windows 10.

Another funny thing that started a couple of weeks ago, when I start up PSE, a screen pops up that asks me to sign in; never had this before. When I decline to sign in, the screen goes away and I can use the program without any hitches that I'm aware of.

Elements has limited capacity to edit in 16 bit.  This may be one of the limitations. 

By @Greg_S.

It's his document (which I got a copy of). Why I have no idea, I've opened more than half a dozen 16-bit images, in various color spaces and tones ranging from 0/0/0 to 255/255/255 and can't reproduce the green overlay that I DO see in his odd PSD. It isn't in the image data. Zoom in, it disappears. 

Something wonky in the image, what and why it shows this, still not clear. 

Disabling GPU makes no difference. And with his 8-bit per color doc, and only that document, the Haze dialog goes nutty too: