Ok, here you can see my struggle. On the left its the picture out of the vfb and on the right you can see whats the pictures look like if i open them in photoshop.
I don’t know Windows but your screenshot shows the image in some finder/ explorer or whatever it’s called. That is most likely not able to show colors “correctly”…
Just as a general question, why do you need a exr / 32bit in PS workflow? Unless you do heavy comp work or you work in a color managed team… this is “overkill”.
PS is still not the “right” place to deal with 32bit files… even AE is a better place…
I do all my tone mapping in the VFB and then save a .cxr as a “master”
For additional retouching in PS, I export a psd or tif with all tone map baked in.
Just make sure you convert early on from linear profile to whatever you need at the end (probably sRGB)
For color workflow in general:
At the end of the day it’s irrelevant what the image looks like on your monitor - what matters is what it looks like for your clients / end consumer. Yes, impossible to know… but very few 10bit/ Adobe RBG monitors out in the wild..
80-90% of my work is for real estate agents and it’s been a long time that I have seen my work printed. Most of these listings are viewed on a mobile device so I gave up on monitor calibration, color managed workflow and all that. My proofing monitor is now a iPhone and a iPad because they seem fairly consistent in their color calibration otb.
Of course this only applies to a one-man-show, if you work in a team you want to be on the same page…
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