Stephanie Simmons

Good question. The ones I'm referring to are edited. Like I mentioned above, I checked some of the other edited raw files that the jpgs are matching, and they aren't doing this. I opened up one of tonight's session since those haven't even been looked at yet, let alone edited. I see the histogram shift after about a second or two, but nothing darkening.

Well poop. I just checked one of the ones where the Raw file + Jpg match and it doesn't do this. The histogram doesn't change at all and nothing darkens. For the ones that are affected, the Bridge image looks like when it first opens but the jpg is saving like what I see after 10 seconds. I literally have no issues running Photoshop at all. It never lags or is slow. Is that really what seems to be causing this? And if so, will just moving the scratch disks and Bridge cache fix it or am I looking at something else?

I just checked. Yes, it's on Always High Quality.

Or I took a short video of me clicking back and forth through them since it really shows how they shift more but can't figure out how to upload it here. Can I upload videos here?

Okay @Damien Symonds kids are to bed. Ran the Glary Utilities and cleared up quite a few errors. Checked scratch disks for Photoshop and Bridge cache folder. Both are on the C driver. Apparently I have an empty solid state drive so I'll get those things moved. I took a screenshot, but saw something interesting in ACR and it was the first time I caught it. About 10 seconds after the Raw file opens in ACR, the histogram changes and the picture darkens but none of the settings change. When I close it and go back out, the image in Bridge looks like the original image that opened before it darkens. I opened a couple of the different affected files and they all did this. 5-10 seconds after opening, histogram shifts towards the black end and image darkens. Can you see the difference in these two? When you click back and forth it's obvious but I'm not sure how much you can see here. Her skin is darker, the greens are darker, and the sky is slightly grayish in the jpg.

Yes I've tried working with the affected files repeatedly and same result, no matter what I do where the others are completely fine. I've even tried raising the exposure and saving again to see if it would match, but still darker. I have multiple hard drives on my computer, including a separate one where I store all my files and pictures, and 2 solid state drives as well. The question asked for the main hard drive so I only listed that one. Is that still an issue? I've got to get my kids to bed but give me about 30 hour or so and I'll run the program you recommended.

@Damien Symonds yes. Sorry I had to run out for a session. I have tried saving the raw file directly in ACR as well as opening it up in PS and saving there. Both times were the same result. The jpg was darker than the raw file. Also I answered the questions: I have a PC desktop running Windows 10 and Photoshop CC. It is over 2 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 31.5GB free out of 118GB. The last time I shut down was last night. I have never run a cleanup program.

I'm viewing them in Bridge. However if I open the raw and the jpg both into ACR, I can see the difference there as well.

Hey Damien! I'm having issues with my files in ACR. I looked back through my sessions and it appears this has been going on for about 6 weeks now. It seems to be happening about every other session, and randomly throughout the sessions. If I do my raw editing in ACR and then save as a jpg, the jpg is noticeably darker than my raw file and I can't get them to match. I've checked more times than I count. ACR is set to srgb. PS is set to srgb. I checked when I save and it's embedding the srbg color profile and if I check the metadata, it's showing srgb color profile. Any ideas on what could be causing this? Adobe customer support was no help and told me to switch to Adobe RBG. Google just keeps saying it's a color profile issue.