Hi,
When importing EXR files into Photoshop, the exposure and colors don’t match/are off.
I use Exr-IO_2.06 to import.
Here you can see a comparison when I save the same render as a PNG:
Who can help?
Thanks
Properly the PNG is using any colormangement … and EXR does not (because it is a data format)… so you might have a look at some display settings/conversions??
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Thanks, in the colormanagement Filmic is on (contrast=none) and gamma set to 1.2. The PNG now looks good, but the exr doesn’t.
So if I undertstand you correctly:
If I wan’t to safe as EXR color Managment = Standard
Gamma = 1.0
That’s it?
The problem arises because most image formats do use some colormanagement and EXR simple does not. So you have to somehow add any colormanagement to the data which was imported via the EXR.
The next problems is which software does use what colormanagent and how “good” does it do this… additionally tweaking something like pre color system manual management parameter like gamma will…
So CM in all it historic versions is something like blackmagic… witchcraft… specialist accusing others to be unprofesional… whatever… 
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“EXR” is very-specifically not(!) “an image-file format.” Instead, it is a data-file format.
These files encapsulate floating-point numbers, precisely as they had been generated. “Exactly what you put into” these files, is “exactly what comes out.” (Either “one layer of numbers, or many.”) They are intended to be used within digital workflows.
If you now want to work with these "as an image," I suggest that you begin with the application (Blender?) that produced the file. Use it, first, to produce “an image file.” (So, it does things like “color management, etc,” using contextual information that only it could possibly know.) Then, let Photoshop manipulate the image from there.