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

[Florian Kainz]

Ray,

I would recommend using fnordware's ProEXR plugin.

Florian


address@hidden wrote:
> 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