PL9 - Edit preview differs from film strip AND exported jpg

[est-1985]

Hi all,

I’m seeing a strange issue in PhotoLab 9 where the main edit preview does not match the exported JPEG.

The exported JPEG, the filmstrip thumbnail, and the move/zoom navigator pane all match each other. However, the main image in the edit window looks noticeably different, flatter/less saturated and with different colour, especially in blues/cyans.

I’ve tested the following:

• Exporting JPEG with sRGB IEC61966-2.1

• Soft proofing enabled with sRGB IEC61966-2.1

• Soft proofing makes no visible difference in the main edit window

• Turning Preserve Colour Details off does not fix it

• Changing DeepPRIME to Standard, or turning noise reduction off, does not fix it

• The exported JPEG still matches the thumbnail/navigator rather than the main edit preview

So it seems like the export itself may be correct, but the main edit preview is showing a different render to the thumbnail/export making it hard to edit as you want to.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a cache/GPU/display setting that can cause the main preview to render differently from the export and thumbnails?

I’ve attached a screenshot: left is the PhotoLab edit window, right is the exported JPEG.

PL9 version 9.8.0 version 46
Computer is a Mac mini M4 Pro

[stuck (stuck [Canon, PL9+FP7+VP5, Win11+RTX 5070 12GB RTX])]

@est-1985

Exporting JPEG with sRGB IEC61966-2.1

My guess is that the software you are using to view the exported JPEG is not applying the sRGB profile because it is not reading / acting on the metadata tags that PL uses to indicate the JPEG image is in sRGB.

[est-1985]

That’s the thing though. The JPG viewed in Apple’s preview app matches the thumbnail in PL9 in the image browser and the move/zoom panel. So PL9 is rendering that edit in its interface, just not in the main image edit view.

[stuck (stuck [Canon, PL9+FP7+VP5, Win11+RTX 5070 12GB RTX])]

I can’t comment further as I’m on Windows, but flattened colours does sound like a colour management failure.

[Wolfgang ([ Win11, PL9, FP7, VP5, Nik8 + 3.3 ])]

@est-1985

However, the main image in the edit window looks noticeably different, flatter/less saturated and with different colour, especially in blues/cyans.

Did you try with e.g. 50% and 75% zoom level and do the images then look different?
Otherwise I can’t help you with Mac.

[est-1985]

Sadly looks the same at whichever zoom level. I’ve raised as a ticket with DXO but if anyone else has experienced the same I’d appreciate knowing.

Thanks.