P: OCIO and ACES support for full support 32bit image editing

[jackdaw_1066]

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.

[D Fosse]

This is the official feature request channel. It will not be ignored. The more upvotes it gets, the more seriously they will take it.

[jane-e]

@D Fosse said,

The more upvotes it gets, the more seriously they will take it.

It only has 11 upvotes as of today.

~ Jane

[Jomaro]

This is the most wanted feature in Photoshop in the Film/VFX industry.

[petera74037225]

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.

[matophmej84385528]

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

[Point Line]

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

[Seb.James]

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.

[Carson Jones]

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]

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.

[Carson Jones]

OCIO is the (relatively new compared to icc) standard for post production and definitely isn't limited to video work.  I couldn't disagree more with your statement re. this.  CGI is a massive part of the post production workflow and is used in both stills and video projects.  Think about advertising renders that go to both video and print campaigns.  The goal here, much like the goal with icc colour management, is to establish a standard workflow across the board.  ICC has worked really well for a couple of decades now for print work.  The world has changed pretty dramatically in the last several years and video and print work and workflows should play nicely together and have compatible standards.  I agree that there's no reason why these two standards can't coexist.  OCIO in Photoshop would be a massive improvement to how things have to be done currently in order to get things to work.  It's a hack workflow that needs to mature asap.

[Jomaro]

Still no sign of supporting OCIO/ACES?

[D Fosse]

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.

[sacb0y]

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. 

[searslux]

I agree with Carson. Our Studio has an established workflow around ACES. We work in different render applications. OCIO color management is essential. I find it embarrasing that Adobe is years behind this. We do videos and stills. Having to go to photoshop is the worst. I make my edits in DaVinci Resolve or After Effects when possible. And thats the main reason. The other being Photoshop is an old piece of c....

[Cody Cuellar]

We're excited to announce we have recently released full native OCIO/ACES support in addition to increased 32b tooling in the latest Photoshop Beta! Check it out and let us know how it works for your workflows!

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta-discussions/new-feature-opencolorio-and-32-bit-editing...

[cody_cuellar]

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.

[Pete.Green]

Updating status

[LewisMoorhead]

Fantastic news!