Bridge De-sat's images as the open? WTH?

[SeanH]

Noticing that as I scroll though images in bridge (CS3/Mac) that the image changes in to a less saturated version of what I saw when I first scrolled to the image.

You can see the computer "Catching up" to that image (creating the preview) or at least the changed preview, and when it does it knocks a lot of the saturation of of the image.

This is a fresh install and I haven't changed anything.

Ideas?

[René Damkot]

Bridge will at first display the built in thumbnail of a CR2 (including "in camera settings" like picture styles, contrast / saturation settings etc), and later update with it's own rendering. Which will be different, and depends on the defaults you've set in ACR.

Also, bridge will assume the default color profile (as set in PS color settings), untill it actually reads the metadata. If your default space is Adobe RGB, an sRGB image will look much too saturated at first. That might account for a difference in jpg, psd or tiff images.

[SeanH]

Thanks.

99.9% are JPG's. Is that still what is happening?

ACR is at it's default settings, color setting are set to the "North American General Purpose 2"....Srgb.

[René Damkot]

If it's happening to jpg's then it's not ACR, but the color space I'd guess. However I might be missing something here, since I find it strange, as you've set sRGB as default.

What color space are the images in?

[tim]

CS3 works on JPGs so the same process applies. Reset your defaults. Check the ACR FAQ (see my sig) for how.

[blinded]

The color change is weird. If it's not Raw, ACR should be using the "embedded" profile (check under calibration).