New in DxO PhotoLab 6.1

[Egregius ([Greg] (Micro 4/3 + Win11))]

@OXiDant

how do i know it’s too much or too less?
Does it “turn off” when i adjust the image so the red mask,which tells me there are colors outside my export iccprofile, goes away?

No. You have to use your eyes to discern what is enough, not too much. The out-of-gamut warning indicators don’t change as you adjust the protect saturated colors slider in Soft Proofing. And I find they don’t reliably indicate what is truly out-of-gamut anyway.

Fortunately, this only pertains to matrix based ICC profiles (display profiles) and the automatic setting (a checkbox in the export options, equivalent to 50 on the Soft Proofing slider) is supposed to be sufficient to protect saturated colors:

I work on a sRGB monitor and I export my images using the sRGB color profile: why do the exported images look different compared to what I see on screen while editing? – Help center (dxo.com)

That might in fact be the case, but that doesn’t mean the actual rendering will be what you want:

New in DxO PhotoLab 6.1 ... Specific to Wide Gamut WCS & Soft Proofing

For academic purposes, here’s a demonstration of the effects of the “Protect Saturated Colors” slider in Color Rendering vs. the “Protect Saturated Colors” slider in Soft Proofing. The sample I’m showing is rendered with Color Rendering set to: Category - Generic renderings Rendering - DxO camera profile (E-M1MarkIII) Intensity - 60 (This Intensity setting blends the discovered DxO camera profile with the “Natural color” profile that is equivalent to Intensity=0.) Here’s what I start out wi…