I've Lost Confidence in DXO Photolab 8 Due to Auto Over Saturated Colors

What I also pointed out is that DXO has written about the newer DXO WG as a wider “working color space” than the Classic and in my opinion it is the color space we have chosen for our monitors when profiling them at the calibration process, that is our real “working color space” and not either “Classic” or DXO WG" for that matter. What WG is given us is just a better way to handle the colors “Classic” was too narrow to handle before and that became a necessity when Adobe RGB ceased to be the only alternative besides sRGB. The existence of Display P3 and the success of Apples phones and computers has been overlooked quite a few years but we had to get an end to that. The days when Windows had over 90% market share on computers and Apple around 5 are long gone and sRGB totally dominated on computers. Maybee the development of DXO WG is made to narrow after all when it is so common these days to show our pictures on TV-screens too. The next step might be to streamline that flow with a support for even wider color spaces like the ones in some modern TV sets than the ones we have today in monitors and Photolab.

Hi Jeff - - I’m just checking that you saw and fully appreciated the answers to your (implied) question;

Are you capturing RAW files or JPG images with your camera ?

  • If just JPGs then you’re missing out on a lot of ability to correct and improve your images … as enabled by PL when used with RAW files.

  • If you’re capturing RAW files then the data therein is not “in Adobe RGB”, even if that’s your camera setting … as explained by @stuck here.

Also note: If you’re capturing RAW files with your camera set to Adobe RGB (for JPGs) then there’s a potential “gotcha” when exporting your images from PL - in that you need to specifically assign/select your desired target ICC Profile … Otherwise, if you leave this setting at its default, it will export to an Adobe RGB target (which may not be what you need or expect).

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Thanks for your concern.
I do shoot RAW
I do use ICC profile for my paper and printer.
I am not able to find how detailed OMD images are when shot in Raw.
Until now I did not understand that the save format from camera is only for JPEC
Knowledge is power
Thanks.

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If your camera is set to Adobe RGB you will probably have to change that for pictures destined for screens and even change these files manually in postprocessing to suite display on screens. To use Adobe RGB-files on screens will at leaste in my world result in uneccessare yellow and red color casts.

This might be one of the most common misstakes most people have done I guess.

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