Having Major Issues with Adobe Bridge

Hey guys, I really hope you can help me with this, because it's causeing a huge rut in my workflow!

For some reason in Adobe Bridge. When I go through the images, just scrolling them, they were GREAT - I love the coloring and the skin tones are amazing. But as soon as I click on one to select it - BAM - changes COMPLETELY. I'll include two examples to illustrate this point:

Skin tone and contrast change:
Before I click on it:

If they are raw images, you have your Raw default presets set to something not optimized for that set of images. Open a RAW image, adjust it until it looks good, and then save those settings as your new default RAW values. If you're not dealing with RAW, then I can't tell you what's going on.

Are you looking at RAW files?

Initially it's showing the embedded JPGs made by the camera, then once you click it's showing the image done from the RAW with whatever settings you have as defaults. Take a look at the ACR FAQ (link in my sig) to work out how to turn off the auto bits (mainly auto WB). Then go into the RAW and change things to look how you want it to look.

If you're in CS3 you could turn on high quality previews, this problem will go away then as you won't see the embedded JPGs.

Another thing that might be happening is that Bridge takes a while to notice the embedded profile. If for instance the working RGB is sRGB and the images are AdobeRGB, they will be shown as if sRGB untill bridge reads the color spaceinfo.

So there's basically no real way to fix it? Whenever it has time to think, it turns out looking like crap? I'm obviously much happier with the first pictures. haha. I shoot in complete manual and they all look like the first pictures on the back of the camera....?! My monitors are calibrated as well.

I am definitely using RAWs...

Thanks, guys,

Ross

Under my preferences for Bridge - I have "Prefer Adobe Camera RAW for JPEG and TIFF files" checked and under "when Creating Thumbnails Generate:" I have checked "Convert to High Quality when Previewed"

rosselliot wrote in post #5380149
Under my preferences for Bridge - I have "Prefer Adobe Camera RAW for JPEG and TIFF files" checked and under "when Creating Thumbnails Generate:" I have checked "Convert to High Quality when Previewed"

I gave you the answer yesterday. Change that to "high quality" not "high quality when previewed".

Well, but that would only cause ACR to not show the "first" version (actually preferred by the OP), right?

One solution would be to get ACR to render the colors closer to what you like. Another would be to bypass ACR and use DPP instead...