I am trying to use fine contrast and microcontrast in the same way that I used to use texture and clarity in Lightroom Classic. I am finding that even very small adjustments in microcontrast cause too much saturation in some images causing horrible colour changes (bright green flecks on the back of a white throated kingfisher just ain’t right!!) and there doesn’t appear to be an easy way of correcting it other than fiddling around in the HSL panel to isolate and reduce it. This happens both in both global and local adjustments and it is driving me mad. I also don’t have the benefit of the advanced contrast settings in the local adjustments so I cannot try that although it doesn’t help in the global adjustment so I figure it won’t help in the local one anyway. Am I thinking about this in the wrong way or am I using these adjustments when I should be using something else? I just want to increase the perception of detail in the bird rather than the whole image.
I’m not sure how to understand what you’re seeing. Are you zoomed in sufficiently for the image viewer to correctly render colors and fine detail? Are you also using Soft Proofing to ensure that what you see is what will be exported? And what are your Color Rendering settings? (You can protect saturated colors there, too.)
Thanks for coming back to me - I had closed PL9 but re-opened it to try what you suggested and the problem has gone - maybe it was a resources issue as I did have Lightroom open at the same time. Now I can ‘t reproduce the problem!!! Which is good I guess 
I will try that color rendering setting if it happens again and will report back.
That’s a good and important recommendation … There’s no downside to having Soft Proofing always set ON - - That way you’ll be sure to have W-Y-S-I-W-Y-G.
Hmmmm…. don’t agree what that but thanks for the input - it’s an interesting suggestion.
As you don’t agree with the suggestion of having soft-proofing permanently on, could you please elaborate on your concerns? I don’t have this setting turned on myself, but wonder what your experiences might be. Thanks in advance.
Hi Mary - - See here for more details … Particularly, note item #4.
John M
Thanks John-M, that helps!
Neither do I. Yet I still mange to get prints that match what I see on screen.
Mind you, I do have a wide gamut monitor (100% Adobe RGB) that can be hardware calibrated and profiled and I never use PhotoLab’s print feature. I export a 16bit TIFF with and embedded Adobe RGB profile and then print that using either Affinity Photo 2 or an ancient version of Photoshop.