Bridge CS3

[Ben Rubinstein]

Just worked through my first job with Bridge CS3. I have to say that I infinately prefer it to LR for too many reasons, but I've come up with a strange problem.

I have the color management box ticked in the preferences. The previews for my RAW files are all fine. When I create jpgs from those RAW files via batching (open, sharpen, resize, save) for sending to the client, those jpgs in bridge have the wrong colour, brightness and contrast. When I open the same jpg files into PS they look fine. In Bridge CS2 they look fine.

I've tried deleting the cache, moving them in explorer to different directories, to no avail. It's annoying as hell not to be able to view the jpgs in bridge as they are so badly wrong!

Bridge CS3 is still pretty clunky, it takes a couple of ages to build thumbnails and often refuses to show them with changes made to the RAW file even when told to build high quality previews, with this job it refused to recognise half of the files as RAW files period until I moved them to another directory. Those things I can wait for a update for, the color problem is pretty serious though, any thoughts?

[One Frame at a Time]

Not using Bridge myself but maybe the view in CS3 Bridge is applying a color profle twice?  Try unclicking the color managment box to see the result?  

Best,

Paul

[Paul Sumi]

Just starting to work with CS3 myself.  Not sure if this is the problem, but am curious what color space is applied to your final image?  I'll see if I can duplicate your problem when I get home from work.

Paul

[Kirk Gittings]

I have the same issue. It doesn't matter whether the color management box is checked or not, thumbnails are contrasty, light, oversaturated. This did not happen in CS2 or CS3 beta and the images look fine when opened in PS.

On the other hand I do not find Bridge CS3 anywhere near as clunky as 2 or CS3 beta, on same machine. Mine works, loads and operates considerably faster.

Any progress on this guys?

[Paul Sumi]

Pom, Kirk,

I'm not seeing this issue with a Win XP box. Are you two using Macs?

Paul

[Kirk Gittings]

I am using both Windows XP desktop and a MacBook Pro. Same problem.

[Schewe]

I am using both Windows XP desktop and a MacBook Pro. Same problem.
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Do the jpgs have a color profile embedded? If there is not profile, Bridge CS3 assumes sRGB I believe. How are your Bridge prefs set regarding HQ Preveiws? I beleive that only HQ Previews are color managed...

[Kirk Gittings]

Do the jpgs have a color profile embedded? If there is not profile, Bridge CS3 assumes sRGB I believe. How are your Bridge prefs set regarding HQ Preveiws? I beleive that only HQ Previews are color managed...
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Adobe RGB 98, sRGB and CMYK all do it. I only use the quick thumbnails.

However, this is weird. It only happens on JPEG files that I have worked on since downloading.  A fresh jpeg downloaded looks fine but the thumbnail of a Jpeg I have worked on subsequently opens up initially fine and then a few seconds later lightens up and gets contrasty (though in PS the file will look correct). Some color profile is getting applied in Bridge even though I have the color management turned off.

[Kirk Gittings]

I just figured it out, though it makes no sense to me.

Under Camera Raw Preferences if I check APPLY AUTO TONE ADJUSTMENTS it happens regardless of the file type, BUT I also have checked in Preferences, Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEGS and TIffs (I do not remember setting this).

Anyway, APPLY AUTO TONE ADJUSTMENTS under CRP seems to be the problem. The other one doesn't seem to matter.

[tagor]

I just figured it out, though it makes no sense to me.

Under Camera Raw Preferences if I check APPLY AUTO TONE ADJUSTMENTS it happens regardless of the file type, BUT I also have checked in Preferences, Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for JPEGS and TIffs (I do not remember setting this).

Anyway, APPLY AUTO TONE ADJUSTMENTS under CRP seems to be the problem. The other one doesn't seem to matter.
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In CS3 you can use ACR to do adjustments to JPGs and TIFFs (in Bridge do a right click and you have an ''open in camera raw'' option). Since you configured ACR to handle them, it did the auto adjustment stuff.

-- Tilo

[Kirk Gittings]

You misunderstood me.

As I said Auto tone, on does it for all files whether Prefer CR for Jpegs and Tiffs is on or not.

[Kirk Gittings]

After a few days of heavy use, Bridge became corrupted and would not launch. I had to reinstall everything to get it to work. I know this is vague, but I don't know anymore. Any thoughts?

[Lisa Nikodym]

After a few days of heavy use, Bridge became corrupted and would not launch. I had to reinstall everything to get it to work. I know this is vague, but I don't know anymore. Any thoughts?

I had similar problems, but it started on my very first day of use.  I found that rebooting fixes it for awhile.

Lisa

[digitaldog]

Bridge is a bit of a train wreck with respect to color management and some of us have had issues with it not previewing the same as other Adobe applications. Not sure what's the cause and yes, you need the color management check box on or it goes out of its way to preview things incorrectly (at the benefit of more speed which is kind of silly). I don't know if this is a rare or intermittent issue as I haven't heard large numbers of people complain about this but you make at least the third person I know of who have reported this mess. My workaround is to not use it <g>.

[digitaldog]

FYI, maybe this is the issue:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/?1...9F@.3bc3d630/12

[craigfraser]

This seems to be down to your color settings not being synchronized, if you go to color settings in the  photoshop menu and ok the option your system should then all preview the same color settings in both bridge and photoshop.

this is how I i did mine in CS2, but will test my new CS3 and check the results

Craig