@swmurray I must apologise for my testing which failed to do what I have traditionally done which is to go back at least one major release of PhotoLab and see what it used to do.
That is particularly pertinent in this case because both DP and XD have undergone “upgrades” DP to DP3 and XD to XD2s.
Sadly, DxPL have taken the easy path of deprecating what might have been some people’s go to feature/function with some bright new shiny version and with noise reduction that appears to open up a “can of worms”, more memory required more artefacts or less detail etc…
So let me add DP and DP XD to the equation (amended to provide the same colour space)
and the loser is … DP3, by 3 counts to one.
@zkarj I am puzzled by the “inconvenient” bit and stand by my statement that colour should not be changed, certainly not as dramatically as in this case
I sort of agree but is that really the case here.
My concern is not this particular case but any “subtle” or not so subtle change can make a profound difference to the image, in this case “profound” only if you pixel peep but in my case, with the trees, not so difficult to see.
Bought with the use of more resources, i.e. time and processing power.
In this case the lower “powered” model seems to remove colour, in the case of XD 2s it preserves colour in the case of the Phalarope and actually adds colour to my images of trees.
Ultimately the training of the models needs to encompass more varied images or the compromises that the implementers need to make need to be (re-)evaluated.
How many other “mistakes” are there in the algorithms, sorry AI, going undetected?