Adobe Bridge - please help

[Olaf.dk]

I have an NEC 2190UXi connected to a Mac Mini Server. The monitor is calibrated using an Eye-One Display puck from Gretag Macbeth.

Thank you though, your question has spurred me to try something: I tried to do the same on my wife's PowerMac, whose display is uncalibrated. There, I don't see the same problem...

Could it have something to do with my custom-made monitor profile?
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Olaf

 

[Olaf.dk]

I tried to do the same on my wife's PowerMac, whose display is uncalibrated.

PowerMac is wrong, I meant MacbookPro (1 year old 13"; same processor, same versions of software).

 

[Olaf.dk]

Here is what I've found:

It turned out that it had to do with the Camera Raw preferences, and not the Bridge preferences.

In the Camera Raw preferences under the category of "Default Image Settings" I had "Apply auto tone adjustments" turned on. When I turned this off my jpegs displayed correctly in Bridge! I was thinking that this only affects the default settings when you open a RAW-file in Camera Raw. Instead of defaulting to "Default" in the Basics-tab, it opens the RAW-file with settings as if you'd opened it and then pressed "Auto" under the Basics-tab in Camera Raw. I couldn't see how this would have anything to do with the display of jpeg-images in Bridge, but it did!

Of course, turning off "Apply auto tone adjustments", the RAW-files also displayed differently in Bridge (without auto tone adjustments), so to avoid that, instead of turning off "Apply auto tone adjustments" I've chosen to "Disable JPEG support" in the Camera Raw preferences.

Now, RAW-files display with auto tone adjustments and JPEGs display correctly! (and I wouldn't use Camera Raw on JPEGs anyway).

For clarity, here's a screenshot of my Camera Raw Preferences after the problem was fixed:



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Olaf

 

[Mitrajoon]

Just curious as to why you would want to have "apply auto tone corrections" checked in the first place. That seems to me like using your DSLR as a point and shoot. Wouldn't you want to see the image as taken and then make whatever creative adjustments you think are necessary?

Please don't take offense, I really am just curious as to your reasoning.
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Jim
http://jmlphotography.smugmug.com/

 

[Olaf.dk]

Just curious as to why you would want to have "apply auto tone corrections" checked in the first place. That seems to me like using your DSLR as a point and shoot. Wouldn't you want to see the image as taken and then make whatever creative adjustments you think are necessary?

"Apply auto tone adjustments" only changes the default setting, and of course the preview. Once I open a RAW-file I always make my own adjustments and it almost never is the same as the Default or Auto settings.

I find that the Auto tone adjustments is better at showing the potential of a photo, as it tries to bring out the details in shadows and/or highlights, so I like to have the preview show this way.

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Olaf

 

[Jon-Nolan Photography]

This worked. Thank you soooooooooooooo much.

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Jon Nolan Photography

 

[Toermalijn]

Correct, if you have the creative suite, you just have to set the colour space ones and all the application will use the same colour space!

Edit-> Creative Suite Color Settings.

And yes this is in the Help files.