photoshop question:
 

guys I use adobe bridge to edit my pics...in jpg. I am not going to shoot raw. the issue I'm having is in the preview in bridge the images look really hot/bad wb/blown skintones...

I go ahead and run the batch knowing I will just pull the images back up and run them again if need be however when I look at the images after rendering they look great...

what am I missing? any thoughts on why the preview render looks so bad?

Might want to check the Color Representation properties for your images. Depending on what you have set in the camera it should either say sRGB or Adobe or Uncalibrated. That may make the difference in how the images display in Bridge.

Also have you tried the mini-bridge interface? I don't usually edit my large .jpg images as I normally intend to get them perfect out of the camera. But when I do I find it most efficient to use mini-bridge in PS CS6 to browse to the folder containing the images I want to work on and double click the thumbnail to open up each image individually, edit it and hit Ctrl-W to close it (and select yes to accept changes) before moving on to the next. The images look correct both in the thumbnail & opened up in the editing display. Of course if you are batch processing images, you can just edit one image that way and then create an action and run it to apply it to the rest.

I use adobe bridge as the file browser and edit in ACR, then save the edits out ...

thing is this a new issue with bridge... not sure what the deal is but in my experience adobe products are a bit 'unstable' ...

I edit all my images for two reasons 1. I shot completely flat in camera and must add contrast and sharpening and 2. I look at every image I shoot and always have.

thank you Jim

Are you on a PC? I use Lightroom instead but you may want to check your settings in Bridge. It sounds like it is not reading the color profile embedded in your JPGs.
There should be a color management menu that allows you to use native windows or the embedded profile. Also make sure your Windows (if indeed you are on a PC) is set to read embedded profiles as well. And of course if your monitor is not calibrated then its all a guess anyway.

If you are on a Mac I have no idea, but it could be a similar situation. :2 cents:

thanks Jay, yes PC and a new issue that cropped up 2 days ago... darned adobe... I'll look and see if the profiles changed... it's okay after saving the files out and opening then again but on first pass I'm not getting a true reading of the exposure or color..

ya sounds like the wrong color profile is being used for sure