Author Topic: Strange behaviour when exporting EXRs (Corona 4.0 issue?)  (Read 1624 times)

2019-07-05, 10:10:52

CASA_MT

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Hi Coronauts,

We have come across a strange issue when opening EXRs that have been rendered in Corona 4.0. At least it seems to be related to 4.0, as we had no similar issues before.

Descripton:

My task is to render a set-extension for a photographed set (large wood beams on the ceiling).
No problem so far: camera-matching, light-setup, shadow-cather - everything worked as always and Corona's IR makes it very easy to see if what I was doing acutalley feels right.

However, when I finally rendered the Hi res version as CXR, wrote the EXRs from the CIE and then loaded them into PS, they looked wrong colorwise. Not completely wrong, just a little bit off.

You can clearly see the seam where the wrong color of the EXR meets with the real image. The real image has a lot more red in it and seems to have a bit more punch:




No matter what we tried (writing EXR directly from VFB, using different PS-versions and setups, renaming CXR to EXR), nothing solved this problem.

The only "usable" workarounds are: using JPG (which is obvously not an option) or using the CTRL + C option from whtin the VFB in order to copy the image directly into the photo.

This is how it should look like:



The strange thing is: GIMP does handle these files very well.

So the problem might be related to Photoshop, but it is unclear in which way and since these problems only occured since Corona 4.0, there  also might be some causality on the Corona-side.

Has anybody come across a similar problem so far? It is really strange und we did not change any of our PS-versions or settings...

2019-07-08, 11:23:40
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rowmanns

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Hi,

Thanks for reporting this to us. From your description it sounds very similar to: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=23019.0 and https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=10126.msg64627#msg64627 which provides some tips.

We are already investigating this. I will do my best to provide some more information when I have it.

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2019-07-08, 11:48:57
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CASA_MT

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Hi rowmanns,

thank you for the reply.
For anyone who faces this issue:

A quick workaround would be to open the EXRs in GIMP (you can keep them at 32 bits) and then (by using CTRL + C) to copy and paste them into PS. For some reason this keeps the color and gamma intact.. it is really strange.

We tried exporting PSDs from GIMP and also TIFFs with layers but these ideas also did not work (still wrong color, always 8 bit and so on), so we settled with this workflow. In the long term this of course highly unsatisfying, but for now it at least works somehow...

P.S. Affinity also has this problem.