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Hi @brivaelle - that behaviour is expected. The splitscreen tool disables all color processing including the input and output color space transforms. What you see on the left side is the actual image with no color space transforms applied. To toggle between a before and after that only includes the creative processes you can do one of the following options:
The reason the split screen behaves differently is to cover another legitimate use case of the application:
When developing RAW images in Color.io, we initially treat the RAW file like a cinema camera by encoding the signal with a logarithmic gamma. Color.io is also used by many to work directly with log encoded material from actual cinema cameras like the Arri Alexa. The first step in grading this kind of material is to normalize the log gamma with an appropriate input transform. For RAW images that would be VisionLog RAW, for an Arri Alexa that would be Arri Log-C. Colorists need a way to compare this unmodified and flat base image against the final grade that includes the input and output device transforms.
Thanks for this elaborate explanation. I was wondering exactly the same and wasn’t aware of the long-press feature to toggle between the grade and the original.
I guess your clarification also explains why this “jump” to the washed out version in the split screen is hardly noticable if the imported image has sRGB embedded.
If I then set the input color space in Color.io to sRGB, it matches the output color space (sRGB) for previewing.
Anyway, I now understand the conversion going on in the background, hence I can stick to the wider gamut workflow with P3 D65 GAMMA 2.6.
Thanks again
@klaus thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely have to document this somewhere more official. :D