Color difference between Luminar Neo, ON1 Raw and Photolab 9?

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Hi,

I have Photolab 9, ON1 Photo Raw and Luminar Neo. When I open the same panasonic S1RII raw file in all those apps, it looks the same in Luminar and ON1, but it looks substantially diferent in Photolab. I have an image of a windmill with a sunrise behind it, and in Photolab 9 it looks a lot more red and dark compared to the other 2, who have a more yellow and brighter look. I have tried looking for a way to maybe change the colorspace in Photolab 9, or some other reason for this, but cannot find anything? Does anybody know why this happens?

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Have a look at the default preset PhotoLab is using for RAW files. You might need to change the color rendering settings and possibly some other settings and make a new preset for PhotoLab to use (in Preferences).

If you’d like help from the community here, upload a sample RAW file for us to play with in those same applications. Even better, include the .dop sidecar file that PhotoLab creates to include the adjustments that are being applied.

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I recommend to set PL’s default to No Correction.
My favourite setting is this:
A01 - Default vertikal.preset (7.6 KB)

Use it and change it as you please…and remember that the default preset is only applied when PL sees an image for the very first time.

Other than that, every app implements its developer’s idea of how an image should look. Normally, the goal is to get close to how OOC jpeg files look. Nevertheless, this look depends on the picture style selected by the photographer.

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because they use open source for camera profile, while DxO makes it’s own. i also had Exposure software which was AlienSkin before and had the same colour rendering as Luminar and ON1.

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Thanks all for the answers. I guess I will have to work with it as it is. I dont believe one to be right or wrong, but in the particular case I preffered the other 2 starting points.

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Here is the image with the accompanying files.

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Have a look at what the differences will be when changing the gamut to classical. Or wide gamut and color rendering on.

George

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Where do I find this option? I cant find it in prefferences?

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custumize->color

George

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Let me know the result.

George

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I found the option. Strange it cannot be set as a default, but I guess they want us to use their dxo wide gamut.

Changing it to “legacy” makes the difference with Luminar and ON1 less severe, but still very clearly visible. I have read up a bit on this “dxo wide gamut”, but I would have to disagree with the statement that this wide gamut provides the most natural colors. In my case, the sunrise was clearly more yellow, and DXO makes it a lot more red.

I guess I will just have to deal with it and make adjustments where necessary.

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The more away the working color gamut is from the destination gamut, the more out of gamut colors.
It is not the red color that’s oog, it are the other 2 colors, on the low side.
Check also the color temperature.

George

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