Blown out colors in acr

hi,
every time I open a picture in camera raw the colors are blown out as shown in here
when I open the image in photoshop everything looks alright...
Can anyone help me with this?

Other than the fact you've got highlight clipping turned on, I don't understand what you are talking about regarding blown colors...the colors look normal. If you are refering to the red clipping indicator showing red in the highlights, just turn clipping off.

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Blown out images in ACR 6.7

I previously shot with a Canon 5D and had no problem using ACR.
Now, I purchased a Mark III. The histogram and flashing white highlights are perfectly exposed on camera. (And also in the Canon software). When I open in ACR 6.7 everything is totally blown out. Why? All updates are current for ACR and Photoshop (CS5). Help!

Your ACR tone settings seem like the normal defaults for Process Version 2010. The PV2012 in CS6/ACR7+ or LR 4+ have an automatic slight highlight compression that can’t be turned off, so would look better, and then the toning controls in PV1012 are superior according to most people.
I don’t have a 5D level camera, but according to the manual, ALO is on the second of four setup pages under the Camera settings tab, between ISO and WB. See page 144 in the PDF of the manual available, here:
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_5d_mark_iii#Brochu resAndManuals
There is also Highlight Tone Priority that underexposes in the camera to preserve highlights, then digitally boosts the ISO on darker areas, to even out the exposure. If your pictures were too dark coming into LR that would be the problem but you’re having the opposite issue.
Are you judging your on-camera-screen exposure using the camera’s histogram or just by eyeballing the LCD rendition of the picture and lack of highlight warning blinking?
The Picture Style in the camera can also affect things and if particular colors are being clipped that can be the ACR camera profile you have selected.
Basically turn off everything in the camera that fixes things for JPGs or is some sort of brightness, contrast, or color customization beyond neutral settings (because those affect the in-camera preview, Canon-produced JPGs, but not raw files), and then perhaps set your camera profile in ACR to Camera Standard and see if things match better.
It is possible that your new camera has more dynamic range and ACR isn’t dealing with it any differently than your old camera but you’ll see more things clipped.
Without having the camera and raw files in ACR to play with, it’s hard to guess what might be occurring.
I would recommend updating to the current version of PS, which is either CS6 for $200 before the end of the year or CC which is $20/mo, $10/mo-first-year, to get the newer PV2012 toning model, or buy Lightroom for less than $200 and use Edit In Photoshop with LR Adjustments (rendered into TIFs on the way into PS).

Correcting blown out COLORS

I am just about to finish a film I've been working on for quite a while, and have noticed that in all the shots with a certain hat my friend happens to love, there's a weird circle of pixels surrounding and covering the hat, and the color distorts.
an screenshot of what Im talking about:
http://web.mac.com/austinlemoine/collectivefilms/Blank_3.html
Does anyone know an easy way to correct this before I premiere it?
Cheers,
Autin

Desaturate it in Color Corrector Numerical and then adjust other parameters if needed.

Blown out colour..

Hi all
Quick question i hope someone can help me with! im vey stuck now... at work we have a powermac g4 quiksilver and today, all of a sudden at 4.30pm upon restart the colour has become very bright and almost blown out to the point that the brushed metal windows have become white in places! the monitor settings havent been altered in any way.
We have now swapped monitors in the studio and this problem still occurs. I have also created a new account and that displays fine! bingo! i think weve fixed it... but i swap back over to the old account and the colour becomes blown again..
Whats the deal? is this fixable, surely its something simple or a corrupt file?
Any help would be a appreciated.
Thanks, James
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I had a similar experience and it drove me nuts until I found the obscure solution.
It is possible that Universal Access has been turned on and the display settings have been altered. This happened to me without me being aware of it; either I inadvertantly hit the key combo or a bit got flipped.
Go to System Preferences --> Universal Access. Under "Seeing" there's a slider bar for Enhanced contrast. It should be set to "normal", but I'll bet yours is somehow set higher.
The clue is that a new user account didn't display the blown out color. Of course, if you don't think to look in Universal Access, you'll never find the solution. I really wish Apple had cross-indexed this part of Universal Access to the Displays panel.
Hope this helps!
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When I open images in Photoshop CS6 they are completely blown out and color posterzation like appea

When I open my images in Photoshop CS6 they appear considerably blown out - none of the foreground has color and detail seen here-but you can see a posterize like appearancin the sky. The same thing is happening in Lightroom 5.

The work files are tiffs 16 bit - anything that opens in photoshop has the
same look -jpg,psd etc. My images are printed as digital C print by a lab.
I haven't intentionally changed anything since yesterday when I was editing
images. The appearance is the same in Lightroom where my digital image are
stored. I also have scanned film image that open in adobe camera raw.So
whatever is happening occurs both in Photoshop and lightroom.
You suggest a monitor setting, worth exploring, but could a monitor issue
affect only photoshop/lightroom doc.
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8750 Color Problems - posterized edges / blown out only on photo paper

I have an 8750 printer. It worked great for a while. Printed quite a number of glossy 11x17's from photoshop no problem for a big office presentation. Didn't use the printer for a few months, then when I went to use the printer, the colors started having real problems, giving a posterized look. So first I bought new cartriges, no improvement.
I went throught the cleaning and testing cycles. Now it is not completely posterized any more but the highlights are completely blowing out and turning white and orange. But only on photo paper, on regular plain paper the prints are perfect. It seems to me that this is a software or firmware problem. I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers.
Tried and tried, using small images, selecting different paper, resolution, color controlled by.. options and using many brands and types of photo paper. One time it came out perfect on a small 2x3 test, thought it was fixed, went and printed same image, same settings from photoshop full size and the blown out highlights came right back. Printed on plain paper and again print was perfect. Tried every setting imaginable, including the full DPI but no difference. Also tried printing straight from Windows default picture viewer, same problem. Also put a 500mb flash card into the slot (for printer RAM?)
Ran cleaning after cleaning and test after test. The test page comes out showing good, but randomly sections of the fine color strips at the top are completely missing, using the print test protocol from the printer's control panel. Any ideas are really appreciated. Otherwise this is an expensive piece of ewaste. Help me solve this problem or the printer gets it!!
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comparison of images on plain paper versus glossy paper can be seen here, I cannot figure out how to imbed image in post
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Message Edited by Vistet on 07-12-2009 12:20 AM

Blown out levels when rendering in Color

I'm encountering a very strange problem in Color, one which I have never had before. I'm attempting to color correct a small number of clips, about 5, all in DVCPRO HD format. Once in Color, the initial levels mirror those in FCP, both in the viewer and my external monitor. After doing some very basic color correcting in the Primary In and then attempting to render the clip, the levels are completely blown out. I've even tried rendering the clips without color correcting, and I get the same result. Even stranger, after attempting to render a clip, this blown out look is automatically applied to the other clips, even though I made no changes to them and did not attempt to render them. Has anyone encountered anything like this? Color has worked fine for me up until now.

and it is just a .mov file
That wasn't what I asked for. I asked what format your source footage was.
It sounds like you need to revert back to 1.0.2. Download this app to remove Color, then reinstall from your original disc: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_remover.htm
If you need the Color 1.0.2 installer (which is no longer available for download on Apple's site), then email me for information on where to download it from my archive.
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Filters for Blown out camera and color shots for CS5

What are some good filters to fix blown out camer and color shots in CS5?
Thanks,

Hi Bill, Here's the link the of the blown out footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lxJJN2PgqM&feature=youtu.be
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Well, a few Effects, that might help - a little, would be Curves, Levels and Shadow & Highlight, along with the Three-way Color Corrector. However, the success will depend on the footage. Can you post a Vimeo, or YouTube example, as once one sees what you are working with, they may have other ideas. Good luck, and welcome to the forums, Hunt
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Blown out footage - Color Correction fix-it tips

I'm dealing with some DV footage that was shot about three or four stops open, daylight exterior, so everything is pretty blown out. Using the 3-way color correcting filter certainly helps take things out of the 'illegal zone', but it makes the skin tones glow (like bad chroma video) and leaves patches of white space on foreheads and upper arms. I am editing two camera footage, so matching the footage the best I can is important. I understand that color correction has it's limitations (especially on FCP) and bad footage is bad footage, but I just wanted to open up a topic for tips and tricks on how one might solve this proablem, or at the very least, improve upon it.
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At 255-255-255, overexposed photosites carry no information.
You can adjust some of the mids and blacks but the highlights are completely gone.
Period.
The only cure is to know when and how to use auto-exposure and when and how to turn it off. Knowing how to control a camera is one of the things separating photographers from snapshooters.
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Clips rendered in After Effects appear blown out in Color.

720p DVCPRO 23.98 project from FCP has graphics rendered in After Effects (same codec) in sequence.
They appear fine in the FCP project. All the properties of the graphic clips match the same settings as the footage that was shot.
Once in COLOR the clips rendered from AE appear blown-out, washed-out...
Any ideas why or how to correct this?
thanks!

There is also a problem with Big-Endian-ness being flip-flopped with dpx files incompatible with some external graphics processing software. This has the feel of some sort of scaling misinterpretation.
Shake was broken (in Quicktime) for anything above 8-bit for a long time before that finally got fixed about 6 months ago. All of a sudden (after the FCS2 introduction and Quicktime update) all we got out after a seemingly normal render (showed up fine in Preview) was a big noiseball of something that looked vaguely like it might be the outline of the original media. Its curious that FCP previews it "okay"... did you indicate the recompressing software? Compressor?
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Image from LR in blown out more in Bridge Camera Raw

Hello, thanks for reading...
I was just about to post this question, when I think I stumbled upon the answer, but I am not sure... so I decided to post anyway, for input.
After completing adjustments to my .cr2 (Canon 30D) images in LR 2.2, I decided to check my images in Bridge (CS2) Camera Raw, since my client uses that program. The highlights in my images are definitely more blown out than they appear in LR. I determined this by viewing the image with the highlight clipping turned on, and could see much more clipping in Camera Raw. I have turned off automatic tone adjustments in Camera Raw preferences. I am on an 2.4 ghz Intel iMac running 10.5.6, 4 gb ram.
What I finally noticed is that in the Camera Raw "work flow options" I had sRGB EIC61966-1 selected as the color space. When I switched it to ProPhotoRGB, the clipping was nearly identical to LR clipping. My client goes to print in Adobe1998, but that color space setting showed more clipping than LR. With ProPhotoRGB being the LR space, is this causing problems for my client?
I will be the first to admit that the topic of color space confuses me... any suggestions? (Besides the obvious, "read a book/ take a class/ suffer like the rest of us" suggestions...)
Thanks again, Jerry

Most welcome, and good luck.
If you do not get help in the Bridge Forum (do not know who the MOD's are there), please do not hesitate to ask that the post be Moved, to say the Adobe Camera RAW (ACR), or Photoshop Forum. That is easy for a MOD to do.
However, in your specific case, I could see three likely candidates for the post.
Still, Bridge Forum is a great place, and you should get help quickly. If not, just let one of us know, as we stand ready to help you, best we can.
Hunt

Fix for Blown out footage?

Hello all.
I have to edit some footage shot by a cameraman who was basically clueless and did not know how to operate the iris on the camera... All of the people shot, look like ghosts.. the footage is very blown out...
I know there is no true fix to make the footage look 100% better, but there has to be some tweaking I can do...
I was just wondering if anyone has any experience repairing blown out footage and what exactly (filters, adjusting, etc.) they did to make it look somewhat better...
And suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks.
Justin

Justin,
More than likely, if the footage is way over exposed, there's no information there on the tape to actually do anything with. Try using the 3 way color corrector to see if you can do anything with brightness and contrast.
What was it shot on? Mini-dv? Betacam Sp? The better the quality format, the more information you may have laid to tape, which will help. (Better color sampling=More information to tape=better color correction ability)
Also, if that doesn't work, depending on the subject matter, you could possibly thinking about making it a really funky video. Thats usually not the best option, but if its a music video or something along those lines you might could tweak the color, to make it all purple or all green or something crazy, and/or do a negative effect on it. Or really funk it up with a old film look and stuff. I'm just throwing out suggestions. I hate doing that, cuz its usually way overdone, and I would consider it the very last option if you can't reshoot. But usually, if it looks like crap to begin with, you've got nothing to work with but crap.
Hope that helps,
Chris

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Highlights are blown out beyond recognition. Saving books ( pdfs to jpegs) - complete nightmare, can barely see the photo
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You can see a vague outline of some of the picture but its like the luminence or exposure has been taken up 50 points.
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Saving books ( pdfs to jpegs) - complete nightmare, can barely see the photo
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Saving a jpeg - doesnt work - again highlights blow out picture beyond recognition.
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Disappointing.
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Hi, I've been banging my head against a wall til the early hours of the morning trying to work out why the encoding of my H264 mp4 is behaving how it is. Can anyone shed any light on whether this is normal behaviour, or a bug?
Basically, I've been trying to render to a 1280x720 mp4 H264 file from an After Effects Quicktime (100 animation) mov, I've tried various presets and was getting a colour blowout, colours becoming far brighter and more neon. I tried all 3 profiles, and all levels. After many many trial and error I have worked out that a file that is of the dimensions 720x576 or below will have a very close result to the source file, anything above that will have inaccurate blown out colours.
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