Every photograph with a colour-mixer saturation edit now renders differently:
a raised band is stronger, most of all on muted colours.
The mixer matched bands and judged saturation on scene-linear values, and
scaled chroma by the same factor whatever a colour started at. Against the
photographer's earlier exports of two looks (~90 photographs, their raws, by
encoded hue), a sky band raised by 58 there lifted muted sky blues about
2.1×; here the mixer gave 1.15×, and less in the muted tones that carry most
of a sky or a shadowed snowfield.
Bands are now matched and saturation judged on display-encoded values. A
raised band pushes muted colours hardest and tapers to nothing at full
saturation, at a gain of 3.0, which at the same value lifts muted sky blues
about as those exports did. Lowering saturation still scales every colour
alike. Hue shifts work on the same encoded colour; luminance still scales in
linear light.
The bundled presets that use the mixer, and those whose colour was tuned
against the default rendering, are rescaled to the amount of colour they
had: Vivid 1.30, Vivid warm 1.30, Vivid landscape 1.38, Vivid, strong 1.45,
Vivid portrait 1.15, Punch 1.12, Blue sky 1.08, Deep blue sky 1.12, Polariser
1.26, Blue sky, golden land 1.13 — mean CIELAB chroma over the default
rendering, on 30 raws from the library. Negative values (skin protection)
are left as written.
On the default rendering, Vivid added 22 % more chroma than the rendering
itself, and Punch 5 % — less than the photographer's earlier exports show
with no look applied (14 % over ours) and well below their everyday look
(27 %). Each preset's colour values (vibrance, saturation, the mixer's
saturation bands) are now scaled together, tone values untouched and
negative ones — Vivid portrait's skin protection — left as written, until
the preset measures: Vivid and Vivid warm 1.30, Vivid landscape 1.38, Vivid,
strong 1.45, Vivid portrait 1.15, Punch 1.12. Measured as mean CIELAB chroma
over 30 raws from the library, as a ratio to the default rendering.
The view transform's second curve is the DNG SDK's published reference
rendering — the ACR3 default curve applied by RefBaselineRGBTone — so
it is the "DNG Reference" curve in the panel, D21 and the code, not a
name borrowed from another product. Comments and docs that justified a
choice by another editor doing it ("as their Amount", "so a
photographer arriving from it finds the name") now give the actual
reason. The Vivid presets no longer describe themselves as reaching
for another editor's look; they are DarkRoom's own.
Factual mentions stay: which program wrote the library's DNGs, what
was measured against, and preset import. camera-profiles.md gains §15,
on starting a photograph from the edit it already carries.
Measured after building them, on four of the library's 6D DNGs: Adobe
Standard's tables lower mean saturation by 3-9 % at defaults, and the
look at 200 % lowers it further. The 6D's look table scales saturation
by 0.925 in its darkest value rows; it was tuned to sit under Camera
Raw's default RGB tone curve, which DarkRoom does not apply, and the
dark-tone desaturation is what is left without it. On _MG_9080 the
Lightroom preview measures 0.49, the matrix alone 0.38, the profile
0.35.
So the spec's "that gap is most of why the same file looks flatter"
was wrong: the gap is tone. The tables stay — they put each hue where
Adobe put it — and the spec, D20 and the Vivid file now say so.
"Stronger camera look" is removed: a stronger Adobe Standard look is a
less saturated picture, the opposite of its name. The Vivid presets,
measured at 0.40-0.46 on the same frame, are what answers "more
colourful" today.
Five looks for "more colourful than the default": Vivid, Vivid strong,
Vivid landscape, Vivid warm and Vivid portrait. They lean on vibrance,
which lifts muted colours most and holds skin back, and use saturation
sparingly on top; landscape and portrait work the colour mixer's bands
so foliage and sky get richer while skin does not. A sixth, Stronger
camera look, pushes the camera profile's look table to 175 %, about the
step from Adobe Standard to Adobe Vivid, and only moves vibrance where
a photograph has no profile.
All change only what they name, so they keep a corrected exposure or
white balance, and the shipped-preset tests bound every key and value.
Blue sky, Deep blue sky, Polariser, and Blue sky with golden land, in a
Skies section after Essentials. Each darkens the colour mixer's azure and
blue bands and adds chroma to them — what a polarising filter does to a
clear sky — and brings the highlights down with it, so a white cloud does
not read as a cut-out against the deeper blue. The stronger ones nudge
azure towards blue and add dehaze.
They are looks and work only on the hues a sky occupies, so an overcast
frame is left nearly alone: there is no blue for them to deepen, and
tinting grey cloud blue would be worse than doing nothing. Tuned by eye on
the demo library's alpine and Manhattan frames, with an overcast Étretat
frame as the control.
The six starter presets were copied into the photographer's own library
on a first run and were theirs from then on. That cannot grow into a
real collection: a copy is frozen at the release that wrote it, so an
improved preset reaches nobody who had the old one, and re-seeding would
overwrite a preset someone had tuned.
`dr_pipeline::bundled` now holds the shipped presets as `.drpl` files
compiled into the binary, in sections — Essentials (the former six) and
three sections of film presets, one per measured stock in dr-film,
printed on the paper its profile names — and never writes them to the
user's file. Every shipped preset is a look (`Reach::Named`), so applying
one keeps the corrections a photograph already has.
A name links a photographer's copy to a shipped preset. Saving over a
shipped name makes their version the one that name applies; it is listed
in the shipped section, marked as changed, and deleting it reverts to the
shipped one. Renaming it makes it one of their own and the shipped preset
reappears. Keyed on the name because that is what the photographer sees
and chooses by.
Copies an older first run seeded are forgotten on load where they are
still exactly as seeded — otherwise all six would list as changed and
stay frozen at their old values. A tuned one is kept and now overrides.
The sheet lists "Yours" first, then each shipped section, with headings.
Shipped rows apply and nothing else; a changed row offers Revert where
the photographer's own offer Delete. A dr-ui test checks every shipped
film names a stock this build can bake, on that stock's own paper,
because dr-pipeline does not link the profile database.
The film presets name stocks by id; the measurements behind them are
spektrafilm's (CC BY-SA 4.0), attributed in each file as in dr-film.
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