In reply to Jens’ original post:
It really depends on the picture style you are using in the camera. I tend to use “standard” on my EOS 80D and 5Dmk4. This is in-camera processing which only affects the jpeg, not the RAW file, and your choice may well be different. However when imported into PL, you can choose to apply a preset. By default this is “DXO Standard” and in my case does indeed look slightly different - a little brighter and more contrasty, and a little warmer in tone. I can easily match this when I choose to, with a fairly subtle combination of sliders. To do this I use:
Exposure -0.20
Highlights -5
Contrast -10
Microcontrast -3
Colour: Tint +5 (= a little more pink), Temp -70K (= slightly cooler)
I have saved this as a preset called “Canon_like_colour” and can apply it any time, or I can make it the default if I choose to, so that every image loaded into PL is treated that way…you may need different settings of course.
Note that it is important to turn off the application of any preset to the jpeg images, if you want to see what the actual out-of-camera jpeg looks like without any modifications. To do this, use the drop down menu in PL:
EDIT > Preferences > General Tab > Correction Settings > For RGB images > option 4 - no correction
Bear in mind that DXO does not know what camera setting (picture style) you have chosen in your Canon 6D’s menu, and that each picture style can be edited by you, as a result there are hundreds of different possibilities. There are 11 picture styles plus 3 user defined presets, each has 6 parameters that can be changed, with 5 or 7 levels. So over 500 possible settings in the camera!
I have found that Photolab’s initial rendering of RAW files from my Sony RX100mk4 is very similar to the jpeg from the camera, but that is just a coincidence. As I rarely use the jpeg files, because they don’t have PL’s excellent optical aberration corrections, it is not relevant to me that they “look the same”.
Once you understand how to tweak PL to your own preferences you will find it very versatile. Good luck!