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Eigil Skovgaard
Inspiring
December 31, 2022
Question

Colors differ from ACR to Bridge

  • December 31, 2022
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An image edited in the ProPhotoRGB colorspace in ACR suddenly looks desaturated in Bridge. It's a pain in a lower body part, as I use Bridge as a show room. 'Preserve embedded color profile' is on in Preferences, so I don't understand this discrepancy.
The only difference from normal procedure is - that the edited DNG file is an output from DxO PureRAW 2 (based on an ARW file). The problem doesn't exist - or is less prominent with the ARW files edited directly in ACR.

Please open attacehed examples.

Best,

Eigil Skovgaard

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TheDigitalDog
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
January 1, 2023

One other item to note (and again, I'm not a Bridge user nor find it very useful but heck, it's free). 

The previews appear to be rendered in sRGB. 

I'm on a wide gamut display; maybe you are too. 

Here's ProPhoto RGB image previewed in Photoshop, correctly of course, next to Bridge. 

When I soft proof the ProPhoto RGB image in Photoshop to sRGB, it matches Bridge. 

In conclusion, Bridge isn't designed for viewing the full color gamut of whatever it is displayed outside sRGB. 

At least in Lightroom Classic, all previews outside Develop use a JPEG preview in Adobe RGB (1998). 

Bridge, not so much. 

But this has nothing to do with Dx0 or tagged rendered images. It appears to be a preview limitation of Bridge.

Previews = sRGB no matter the original image color space. 

 

Note: the screen captures above don't show here the full effects of the differences because everything is funneled into sRGB to post here. You can download a TIFF in my wide gamut display color space and open it in Photoshop, and the differences are now much more visible. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bv2dxgf4i8oppl0/PSvsBridge.tiff?dl=0

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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Eigil SkovgaardAuthor
Inspiring
January 1, 2023

I would like to send you a DxO DNG provoking the saturation discreapancy - and a Topaz DNG showing very alike color rendering in ACR and Bridge. If it can help, I'll put the files in my dropbox and place a link here?

D Fosse
Community Expert
D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 31, 2022

A plugin has its own color management independent from Photoshop. So it sounds like a DxO problem.

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Eigil SkovgaardAuthor
Inspiring
December 31, 2022

You can call it a plug-in, but is it? The ARW file has been loaded into a standalone DxO software, and noise has been removed. The output DNG is placed in the Bridge managed repository from which it was loaded via Bridge into ACR as a normal raw file. The editing colorspace in ACR was ProPhotoRGB, which the image from ACR shows. The desaturation occurs when the image is opened in Bridge.

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