Gamma

[glorybound]

I have previously mentioned that my colors, out of V-Ray/MAX, are very hard to control. I have to do so much Photoshop tweaking, which takes time. My workflow is like this:

1. open raw image (32bit) and layer my elements
2. export as a PNG (8bit) and do some more color grading - making my colors correct using layer masks

The 8-bit PNG and the 32-bit RAW look the same. The colors are way too bright in both. If I cut from the 32-bit, and paste into the 8-bit, the color is spot on (much darker.4545). If I want to return to the original color, I must change the gamma on the cut/paste to 2.2.

Am I doing something wrong with the gamma? My gamma is MAX's default.



I use PSD Manager to save my images and all the layers and elements.




What to do? Any ideas?

[sirio76]

Photoshop is rubbish for 32bit editing, there’s nothing you can do about it. Why don’t you simply use cryptomatte to perform color corrections? Is so much faster..

[glorybound]

I use cryptomatte, but I feel like I have better control in Photoshop. I can paste the actual color into a layer mask and play with blending mode to get it right.