Hi Manfred - - The following comments and explanations may help …
- DxO’s Wide Gamut Color Space contains a “wider color range” than any display device is capable of rendering and any printer is capable of printing.
- Even so, it’s well worthwhile using the WGCS as DP’s working-color-space as it allows for more accuracy/nuance when applying the image corrections that you apply … just as it’s more accurate to work with a calculator that’s capable of more precision than, say, 2-decimal places versus one limited to only that.
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You note that most of your output from PL is destined for the interwebs … which works on the assumption that images are rendered to sRGB
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If you don’t have Soft Proofing (SP) enabled in PhotoLab then it will render the working image as best as it can for the screen that you’re using … which, I believe, for your MacBook is probably better than sRGB, but not as wide/complete as AdobeRGB.
- So, in your case; if you don’t have SP enabled then potentially you’ll be seeing (on your monitor) colors and details that are not reproduced when the exported image is displayed from a web-site.
– I say “potentially” because it depends whether the image contains colors outside sRGB
– I say “colors and details” because details that you see on your better-than-sRGB monitor may be obscured when colors are constrained to fit into sRGB - as displayed on a website.
- Therefore, for simplicity, I suggest you enable SP permanently (I have it enabled in my default Preset - as applied to all newly encountered images) … That way, you will always be seeing on your monitor the same result that you’ll see when the exported (to sRGB) image is displayed from a web-site = WYSIWYG !
- To be very sure of this approach, you should also have your Export-to-disk options set as follows;
… for consistency, to ensure WYSIWYG.
Continued below …
John M