[Openexr-user] Photoshop Plugin importing as RGB/16 bit

[ray]

I'm working on a project that is rendering 32bit floating bit EXR files out of 
3DStudio.  I'm then compiling these frames in After Effects in a 32 bit 
floating point composite and it's all working fine.  The problem I'm having is 
that I also need to composite some scenes in Photoshop CS4, and the default 
Photoshop EXR plugin is tossing out any data from the image that has a 
transparent alpha.  I found the Photoshop plugin on the OpenEXR website and had 
hopes that it would do what I needed.  Thankfully it knows how to handle the 
alpha channel properly, but unfortunately the plugin imports the image into a 
16bit integer document and any value above 1.0 is clipped.  I can't use the 
exposure adjustment to access the over bright details.  Because of these import 
problems I have to run each image through After Effects and do the exposure 
processing there, then export an image to Photoshop.

Can the maintainer of the OpenEXR photoshop plugin please recompile a new 
version that imports images into a 32bit document and maintain the full color 
range, or provide exposure controls in the plugin?  Also, I could use a 64bit 
version of the plugin for the 64bit version of Photoshop.

Thanks,
  Ray Collett

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Technical Director; Newlands & Company Inc. www.nc3d.com
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