JPEGS Overexposed in Bridge but are actually OK

Question

Using ACR 6.2 & Bridge CS5 (v4.0.3.9)  After the most recent update  I started noticing that various jpegs & tiffs are really overexposed when viewing them in Bridge.  If  I open the file in Camera Raw or Photoshop it displays properly.  I can even open the file in Camera Raw and just hit the "done" button and then go back to bridge and the file will display properly.
Not sure aht is causing it and I have a quick fix to open the file and close it but its a pain in the butt.  Is anyone else experiencing this?  I'm assuming its an issue with the most recent update because it just started happening after I did that.  It appears to only be a display issue and the actual files are ok but its troublesome when numerous files are displaying like they have been way overexposed.
Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix permanently fix it?

Answer 1

dfranzen adobe Employee wrote in post #7:
"Until a fix is available for this bug, please try the following workaround. After cropping the JPEG in the Camera Raw dialog, select "Export Settings to XMP" from the fly-out menu in the Camera Raw dialog, then click "Done".
Since you are looking into this ACR-crop-overerxposure problem, can I ask that you you also consider the overexposure problem discussed in the thread entitled "ACR 6.3RC still makes Bridge display some TIFFs & JPGs overexposed" in this Camera Raw thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/745757?tstart=0
It seems to me that these problems are more than likely arising from a similar or possibly related cause, and fixing one may well have an influence, but not necessarily a "corrective" influence, upon the other.
In this current "ACR-crop-overexposure" thread ("JPEGS Overexposed in Bridge but are actually OK"), I experience the same, but also additional, issues as the OP and other the posters, with the same versions of Ps and Bridge, but ACR 6.3RC instead of ACR 6.2, installed.
In summary, these issues occur with ALL my JPGs and TIFFs, whether colour or B&W, whether native from the camera (Nikon D700 and  Canon EOS 300D) or scanner (16-bit TIFFs from a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED and an Epson Perfection 4990), whether or not the JPG or TIFF has ever been prior-processed in ANY version of ACR, and even any JPG or TIFF produced at any time (intermediate or final) during an editing session where that image is "derived" from a raw file (NEF or CRW), a PSD, or a TIFF.
1. Opening in ACR hosted by Bridge from Bridge (Ctrl+R), Crop, Done, back to Bridge:
(a) - thumbnail displays roughly 1 stop (possibly more - difficult to estimate sometimes) overexposed;
(b) - thumbnail displays the Crop icon (only - not the edited in "ACR icon") in top right corner;
(c) - Develop Settings/Clear Settings: clears the crop, clears the Crop icon, but overexposure remains AND, WITH A COLOUR IMAGE, the Reds are oversatured - sometimes heavily so;
(d) - Develop Settings/Previous Conversion (immediately following (c)): eliminates the overexposure, restores the ACR icon (but NOT the Crop icon), does NOT restore the crop, AND, WITH A COLOUR IMAGE, the oversaturated Reds remain.
2. Opening in ACR hosted by Ps from Ps (File/Open As/Camera Raw), Crop, Done, back to Bridge:
(a) - thumbnail displays NO overexposure, AND, WITH A COLOUR IMAGE, the Reds are NOT oversatured;
(b) - thumbnail displays BOTH the Crop icon and the ACR icon in top right corner;
(c) - Develop Settings/Clear Settings: clears BOTH the Crop and ACR icons, clears the crop, BUT, the thumbnail now displays the 1 stop overexposure;
(d) - Develop Settings/Previous Conversion (immediately following (c)): eliminates the overexposure, restores the ACR icon but NOT the Crop icon, does NOT restore the crop, and colour images continue to display NO oversaturation of Reds.
None of the abberant behaviour outlined 1. and 2. above occurs when ACR 6.1 is installed in place of ACR 6.3RC.