Werid Camera Raw CS red stuff?

I have a tiff file to upload with this post but obviously that feature has been diabled so I'm going to try and discribe this to the best of my ability. I have check memory cards, lens and cameras and narrowed the problem down to camera raw. I have upload all patches and new updates and still no fix. So, I open a file from bride into Camera raw.. its a dng file. There are several red areas all through the picture while its in camera raw and when I paint over some areas doing adjustments say on exposure the red will some times appear as I'm brushing where it wasn't before. I need help because this is making the mass pics I need to edit very difficult....

Yes!!! Just saw that and just figured it out!!! I'm so mad at myself that I didn't see that and put 2 and 2 together!! Ugh! Thank you so much!

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The issue of the reds in some raw files was recently discussed here:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3bb6a869.3c0530a0
It's long thread that boils down to something like this:
First, a caveat: there is no antagonism or criticism of any poster intended in my replies to this question. All my replies to posts on this issue are meant to stress that any differences between an ACR conversion and the conversions performed by the camera manufacturer's software may be normal, expected behavior.
If anybody prefers the camera manufacturer's conversion, that too can be emulated in ACR and saved as your own ACR defaults or preset(s). This has been covered ad nauseam here by others as well as by myself. Please do a forum search. If only my posts show up, it means the others have scrolled off already.
Here's the scoop:
Camera manufacturers, Canon and Nikon in particular, perform in-camera RAW to JPEG conversions designed to generate the over-saturated, over-contrasty and over-sharpened images that appeal to the masses.
Their stand-alone RAW conversion software also performs the same conversion to your RAW images.
Noise is also hidden by compressing the shadows so you don't see much of the noise inherent in the image.
In my experience, even the nominally "natural" default settings in these cameras and in the manufacturer's software perform these adjustments to the images, to a lesser but very real degree.
Adobe Camera Raw, ACR, on the other hand, comes with default settings designed to give you the most detail possible (even if this sometimes means revealing some of the noise hidden by the camera manufacturers in their RAW conversion software), as well as the most natural images.
This is only your starting point in ACR.
You can calibrate your camera to ACR and come up with your own settings to produce exactly what you want, including the JPEG-look of the camera manufacturer, and save that as your profile.
The key is to learn how to use ACR properly and to calibrate your camera to ACR.
CLICK HERE for some essential reading.
The ACR defaults are nothing more than a suggested starting point.
The color temperature won't necessarily match either.
These are not
"changes" to the raw file. All raw files are very, very dark, linear, grayscale image with no colors. There is color information included, from which any and all raw converters must create the colors in the converted image according to the parameters of the design of each converter.

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Why does CS6 Photoshop only open Red R3D movies files as 8 bits per channel ???
This is VERY disappointing , R3D movies should be opened through Camera Raw 7 as 16 bits per channel
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Steve

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the prompt reply. I understand what you are suggesting however in CS6 PS when I open a Red R3D file (on my windows machine)
photoshop opens the file as 8 bit/ch WITHOUT going through ACR, not offering the option of opening it as a 16 bit file in ACR.
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No easy fix I'm guessin' ?
Many thanks
All the best
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Perhaps it would be helpful if you'd post a screen grab showing the problem. I honestly can't tell from what you're writing whether you're seeing a bug or maybe you've saved some oddball Camera Raw Defaults.
Considering it could be the latter, have you considered setting the image development settings for that image to defaults, or even Resetting the Camera Raw Defaults (which will affect all images in the future)?
-or, if the above doesn't fix it-
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Thanks Benjamin! I just tried that & the highlights are showing up, but not like they did the older version I had. I've opened the same picture in both versions. In 8.8, it has to be drastically overexposed for highlights to show, but there is a ton of area where they don't show. In the 5.0 version, it showed immediately upon opening the picture. Is this the way 8.8 is supposed to be or is there something wrong with mine?

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Thanks for the reply but.... this message is directed at Adobe not you. With a program as advanced and complicated as Photoshop "trial & error" is NOT an option. As a professional I do not have the time to "figure out" the basics of the program, not to mention the depths to which Photoshop is capable.
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Yes, white balance is another possible reason for mismatch
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- the same will happen if you use WB dropper on exactly the same position in the photo by both ACR and DPP
- but, if you use the same temperature preset in ACR and DPP (for instance 5200 K), then white in ACR and DPP will probably be a bit different, because whitebalancing is performed in oposite direction now (ACR calculates RGB multipliers from that temperature and using color matrices in the profile)
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I then went to the organizer, which replaced Bridge? In Bridge, I read there is a command to open multiple files in ACR or use the cmd-R. However, I am not seeing an open in ACR command in the organizer, just open in editor. Opening multiple jpg files in the organizer stacks them into the editor, not ACR. And, typing cmd-R brings up Red Eye reduction, not Raw Editing.
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Thanks Terry! I’ve been using this for a few years and settled on the somewhat more flexible approach… As you mentioned, Bridge offers an explicit command to open a JPEG or TIFF in Camera Raw, which I do, but then with a press of Shift I can open that JPEG as a smart object and revisit CR controls for further adjustment at any time later in the process.

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Hi all, I am quite new to use RAW. I have raw files that I want to edit. Unfortunately, the moment I click on the raw files, the color changes.
Is there anything I should do to the color setting?
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The image is indeed rife with red color.
The fact that the embedded JPEG isn't quite as oversaturated with red as Adobe's conversion with the lowest color temperature of 2000 just says that Canon's conversions have more range at the low-end of the color temperature setting.
This is the color from the embedded JPEG. Clearly it's dominated by a reddish-orange color, though not as red as that from Adobe's software.
This is the color from Adobe Camera Raw's conversion at the (low-end minimum) color temperature of 2000:
This is the photo converted with Canon DPP using "click white balance" on the bridge beam on the left:
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-Noel

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Why read files in sequential chunks far smaller than we could? Why not 128KB or 64KB chunks for the DNG header read instead of 4KB? Why not at least 256KB chunks for the main DNG read?   Why not 32KB chunks for the Camera Profiles, if we're going to read them over and over at all?
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00:49:58.72 CloseFile A
00:49:58.72 Mess with Defaults\Preferences.xmp
00:49:58.72 CreateFile B
...               ReadFile B in 4KB chucks out to just past Offset 167,936
00:49:58.72 WriteFile B - write 11,187 bytes at Offset 780
00:49:58.72 CloseFile B
...               Mess with some Adobe\CameraRaw\Database CreateFile, ReadFile, CloseFile stuff for very little time.
00:49:58.72 CreateFile B
00:49:58.72 ReadFile B in 64KB chunks out to just past Offset 19,165,184
     00:49:59.12 The last ReadFile; essentially, reading at ~45.84MiB/s for 0.4 seconds
00:49:59:12 Start reading all the CameraProfiles\Adobe Standard\Canon EOS 50D xxx.dcp in 4KB chunks for 55-110KB or so: the order is Adobe Standard, Camera Faithful, Camera Landscape, Camera Neutral, Camera Portrait, Camera Standard,
    00:49:59.13 The last ReadFile for the profiles
00:49:59.13 CreateFile B
00:49:59.13 ReadFile B in 4KB chunks twice, at Offset 0 and Offset 53,248
00:49:59.13 CloseFile B
...               Mess with some Adobe\CameraRaw\Database CreateFile, ReadFile, CloseFile stuff for very little time.
    00:49:59.13 Last CloseFile on the above
??? CPU use, I assume
00:49:59.78 CloseFile B
    ??? The previous operation on B appears to also b a CloseFile. I assume I'm failing to interpret Process Monitor; I must have missed an operation.
00:49:59.78 CreateFile, CloseFile on Defaults\Preferences.xmp - Read Attributes
00:49:59.78 CreateFile Cache\Index.dat
00:49:59.78 ReadFile Cache\Index.dat in 4KB chunks then write it in 4KB chunks, about 24KB worth
00:49:59.78 CloseFile Cache\Index.dat
??? CPU use, I assume
00:50:01.40 CreateFile B
00:50:01.40 WriteFile B in 256KB chunks
00:50:01.42 CloseFile B
00:50:01.43 Another Read Attributes Create/Close set on Defaults\Preferences.xmp
00:50:01.43 CreateFile C
repeat pattern
Total: 2.71 seconds.
The sum of the two long ??? CPU segments: 2.27 seconds
The time not part of the two long ??? CPU segments: 0.44 seconds, or about 20% of the total for that file.
Of that, changing the main DNG file read from 64KB chunks to 256KB chunks could have reduced that 20%, to about .35 seconds. On a batch of 1000 photos, that's a savings of almost 6 minutes. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there, and pretty soon you're talking about real time.
Note that SQLIO, with an outstanding IO queue of only 1 (as this appears to generate), with only 1 thread, dealing with only one 4GB file, for 120 seconds, rates the SSD which stores the DNG's at:
4KB: 48.10MB/s
64KB: 173.85MB/s -- much, much faster
256KB: 222.95MB/s -- still significantly faster than 64KB
While my SSD doesn't take up much more time doing the smaller reads, slower or more heavily used drives will make the lower efficiency more visible to the end user, particularly for batches.

I don't know the specifics, but keep in mind this software is built to work on multiple completely different operating systems. There might be some "minimum common denominator" stuff going on.
-Noel

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