The full workflow is...

1) Install an old 32-bit Daz Studio on your PC. 4.12.x 32-bit is suggested, though perhaps earlier if you also want to use other older plugins.

2) Install Photoshop CS6 32-bit on your PC.

3) Download and install the official 32-bit DAZ Photoshop Bridge installer from your purchases list at the Store. This should still be free, and requires a 32-bit Daz to be present on your PC. The target folder is...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Plug-ins

4) Also install the latest 64-bit Bridge to your regular Photoshop (e.g. CC 2018) and latest Daz Studio.

5) Load Photoshop CS6 32-bit, launch its 32-bit DAZ Bridge (Top menu / File / Automate).

6) CS6 should auto-launch the latest DAZ Studio 4.20.x 64-bit, rather than the old 32-bit. It then seems that the 32-bit CS6 plugin can happily talk to the latest Bridge script/camera in the latest 64-bit DAZ Studio. It's all script-to-script talk now, and bit-parity on the .exe's no longer seems to be a problem.

7) Test "Update" and "Autoupdate" in the Bridge's UI, and they should now work perfectly - which they don't in 64-bit. Importing an iRay render into Photoshop also works fine.

The workflow for then setting up matched backdrops ('backplates') in both Daz and Photoshop is...

1. Launch Photoshop. Open your target Background as a layer, and optionally make it an unlocked layer (Right-click layer, "Layer from Background").

2. In Photoshop, File / Automate / Daz 3D Bridge. The Bridge panel loads. Give it time to auto-launch your Daz Studio 64-bit. If using iRay for rendering then you probably need a fast render (ideally no more than 60 seconds), so now's the time to drop a superfast render preset on DAZ.

3. In DAZ, now run this free helper script, which you will have copied and saved as a .DSA script file...

// Helper script for the Photoshop Bridge for DAZ. July 2022.
// Set the variable needed to work with a backdrop in the scene
var oBackdrop = Scene.getBackdrop();
// Show the user the Backdrop loading panel, for their pick
oBackdrop.showOptions( MainWindow );
// Then make Viewport ratio match the Backdrop picture ratio
oBackdrop.adjustRenderAspectRatioToMatchTexture();
// Set render settings to match dimensions of the Backdrop
oBackdrop.adjustRenderDimensionsToMatchTexture();
// Set the Backdrop to be visible in the Viewport, but not in a render
oBackdrop.visibleInRender = false;

4. This launches the Backdrop picker in DAZ. Just tick "Active Backdrop" and then "Browse". Choose exactly the same Backdrop picture you already have on a layer in Photoshop.

5. The script then continues, auto-matching Viewport ratio and render dimensions to the new picture, and setting the Backdrop to be invisible in renders.

6. You now have the same sized and matched 2D backdrop in both tools. Render direct to Photoshop!

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Subject: The Bridge to Photoshop has been blow up.