Welcome to the user forum, Don …
Given your obvious PL expertise, I’m surprised you haven’t been here earlier !
Yes - that’s an excellent practical demonstration of the “discovery” process that many of us have been thru. Once those different default renderings are understood, it’s all fine … but quite disconcerting before then !
At about the 21min mark you’re showing the impact of Soft Proofing on containment of saturated colours (the reds in your “pig-face” flowers).
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Soft Proofing is actually doing more than “simple” management of saturated colours - it’s also balancing the degree of detail to be preserved in saturated colours, using a DxO/PL-specific algorithm
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This PCD-algorithm is applied at the strength/intensity determined by the “Preserve Color Details” slider (with 50/50 default) … See Soft Proofing - Advanced Settings.
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Such that some (many?) of us actually have our default Presets set-up to have Soft Proofing activated at all times … because (in the case where the target is a display-device) the PCD-algorithm practically eliminates any need to fiddle about with HSL or Tone Curves, etc
In the “Exporting Comparison” section you mention the Intent setting choices - Perceptual or Relative;
- This is an anomaly in the User Interface (which, hopefully, DxO will fix soon - to avoid confusion)
- When the selected ICC Profile is a matrix-based /display-device profile then the Intent choice has no impact; it’s irrelevant (it should be greyed-out/disabled) - Instead, the PCD-algorithm is applied.
– See the drop-down help text …
… for more details
Now, in the Export to Disk dialogue, for the ICC Profile option, if “Same as Soft Proofing” is selected (and assuming Soft Proofing is activated) then the result you’ll get when reviewing the exported file will be exactly the same as the result you achieved and saw within PL … WYS-is-WYG.
Thanks for pointing us at your video, Don - I’ll be watching out for more … (And I just noticed this one).
Regards, John M
PS. You may find this interesting/useful; Colour Management in PL6
- Note, tho, that it’s the result of PL-user speculation/deduction … it’s NOT from DxO.