Bridge Freakout

Desperately need help with a crazy Bridge issue. I am editing a bridal session that accidentally got shot in jpeg (I forgot to switch back to RAW); I open in ACR, make basic adjustments, open in PS5, do my editing (actions applied), image looks great, save the edited version, go back to Bridge & if I open the EDITED version it is SUPER bright, not at all like the edited version looks. If I open it back in PS5, looks fine. If I go to my Finder (Mac user), find the image, hit the space bar & open a preview, looks fine. It's only in Bridge it looks crazy weird. I haven't changed any settings in Bridge. Help!

How do other jpgs look in Bridge?
How do the (edited) jpgs look if you open them in ACR?

Rene, someone in a photography Facebook page has been trying to help me with this & here's where we are: original jpegs (from this session) look fine (underexposed, but that's par for me) in Bridge. Edited images look super bright in Bridge & ACR. Look fine in PS or if opened through Finder preview. This photographer on FB is saying I need to reset the images in LR because I sent him the edited file & when he opened it in LR & reset it then sent it back to me & I opened it in Bridge it looks fine. I'm not sure how to "reset" images it just doesn't make sense to me since I haven't made any changes to Bridge.

If I open another edited session & look at those jpegs in Bridge they look fine.

Seems ACR is applying some settings to those jpgs and Bridge shows that? (Should be an icon in the top right corner of the thumbnail?)

To reset those settings (once you've found out where they came from ), select the image, ctrl+click and select Develop Settings > Clear settings.

I responded in red to your questions

kirkt wrote in post #16073804
When you say open in ACR - from Bridge, you open the image in ACR, right?
right

Then you make basic adjustments to the JPEG in ACR... and then what? You say "open in PS5" (Photoshop CS5, i assume). Does this mean the file gets passed from ACR into PS, or do you save the image from ACR to a new JPEG or TIFF and then open that file in PS?
Straight from ACR into CS5


From PS, after edits are applied, you save the edited version - as what? A JPEG? PSD?

Jpeg

When you say you OPEN the edited version in Bridge, are you talking about a preview of the image as displayed in Bridge? I don't think you can "open" an image in Bridge - you can use Bridge to open an image in an application, and you can use Bridge to preview an image.

I mean that I go back to Bridge & navigate from the folder with the original, unedited jpeg images to the folder with the saved, edited jpegs.


Maybe you can try purging the Bridge cache to regenerate the previews?

kirk

René Damkot wrote in post #16073785
Seems ACR is applying some settings to those jpgs and Bridge shows that? (Should be an icon in the top right corner of the thumbnail?)

To reset those settings (once you've found out where they came from ), select the image, ctrl+click and select Develop Settings > Clear settings.

How do I find out where those settings came from? I see a little icon in top right corner of the thumbnail but it doesn't do anything when I click on it. It's a gray circle with 2 triangles on it).

Michelle Brooks Photography wrote in post #16073818
How do I find out where those settings came from? I see a little icon in top right corner of the thumbnail but it doesn't do anything when I click on it. It's a gray circle with 2 triangles on it).

Highlight all those files, right click, Develop Settings, choose Clear Settings.

D Thompson wrote in post #16073920
Highlight all those files, right click, Develop Settings, choose Clear Settings.

Bless you! That did it! But I did not find out where those settings came from...sorry, Rene

Maybe you created a default for jpgs in ACR?
Normally, there shouldn't be any ACR adjustments on a jpg edited in PS