Colour Space question: Which colour space is PhotoLab using as its "working space"?

[sankos]

@OXiDant

The question i have is is PL’s AdobeRGB cut out of the camera’s one and is the outer section(colordata which falls outside theAdobeRGB) “thrown” away? And not recoverable when fiddling EV and hue sat and contrast. Because if so then is prophotoRGB as base workspace indeed a much better choise. Because if data is lost by rawconversion in smaller colorspaces the clipped data gone if you use a small colorspace.

This is a question best answered by people like @wolf because I can only speculate. If the camera colour space got mapped just once to the working space at the beginning of the imaging pipeline (without some further re-mapping), and if the relative colorimetric rendering was used for the mapping, then PhotoLab would re-map the out-of-AdobeRGB colours so that in effect there were no colour subtleties preserved for those initially out-of-gamut colours.

@John-M

This is probably only an issue for “future proofing” tho (were there to be future technological advances), as we’re not likely to be able to see any difference in colour detail on our screens (according to my understanding).

Well I can see subtle differences for some colours outside of Adobe RGB on my pretty old wide gamut monitor (esp.in the yellow/red range).