ACES & Photoshop friendly workflows

Hey everybody. I found this post on my strive to use ACES in my workflow. For still images I want to use Photoshop for compostiting and thats how I came to this forum.

I am rendering .exr with Maya (Arnold) and don’t know how to implement the OCIO Photoshop Plugin in the comping process. I already use Exr-IO when I load my multilayer .exr files but I don’t know how to handle the different passes with the OCIO Plugin. Is there a way of handling 32Bit .exr passes in Photoshop without going down to 16Bit? I don’t want to merge all my layers and want to keep them as they are.

I tried the conversion of each layer from Input Space ACES - ACEScg to REC.709 like @ChrisBrejon showed earlier in this post but since I don’t have access to the levels adjustment layer in 32Bit, I can’t do much with the gamma correction.

Maybe someone found a way to fully use ACES multilayer-.exr in Photoshop?

Best Regards,
Kyan

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