I updated, now all my renders are 'washed out'. Help!

Corona Corona for Cinema 4D Help Required
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Hello. I just updated, now when I render the images out, the one that saves out does not match the one I can preview in the VFB. It’s all washed out. Can someone please, as a matter of urgency, tell me how to remedy this?

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Hi, we will need some more details, such as:

  1. Which version of Corona did you use when it worked normally?
  2. Which version of Corona did you update to?
  3. Which version of Cinema 4D are you using?
  4. How exactly are you saving your images so that they become washed out? (manually clicking the VFB save icon, automatically saving based on Render Settings, using Render Queue, Team Render?)
  5. To what format are you saving your images?
  6. Is it the same when you use both sRGB and ACES color management?
  7. Are you a Windows or Mac user?
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Hello
Corona 14 is fine. 15 went weird.
I’m on the very latest version of Cinema 4D
On a Mac
The images look okay in the preview but when they automatically save they’re washed out. If I save it manually from the VFB they look fine though.
Save to .tif usually but it happens to all formats I think.

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I have some follow-up questions:

  1. By “Corona 15” do you mean “Corona 15” or “Corona 15 Hotfix 1”?
    If you are not using Corona 15 Hotfix 1, please update to this version.
  2. When saving to TIF, what bit depth are you using?
  3. How are you starting your rendering? Are you opening the Corona VFB and using the Render button there? Or using the Render > Render to Picture Viewer option? Or some other way?
  4. You also didn’t tell me if you are using sRGB or ACES color management.

Ideally, we need to reproduce this. And in order to reproduce it, we need to know what exactly you are doing. If you could explain, in points, what your steps are, that would be great.

I tried the following and the image in the VFB and the saved one look the same, so I am unable to reproduce the issue so far:

  1. Create a simple scene
  2. Set pass limit to 5
  3. Set a valid output path
  4. Set format to JPG (also tried with TIF 8bit)
  5. Go to Render > Render to Picture Viewer (also tried rendering directly from the Corona VFB; I also tried setting both the Corona VFB and C4D Picture Viewer as the default frame buffer in Corona Preferences)

So I will need some more info.