Curves and how control the colors

[Elle (Elle Stone)]

The RawTherapee sRGB profile is a matrix profile.

In the article to which @Morgan_Hardwood linked in the previous post, I tried my very best to explain in as few words as possible why perceptual intent doesn’t work with matrix profiles. If anyone reads the article and has any questions, I’d be happy to try to answer.

In the meantime, here’s an article that shows an example of what “clipping” looks like when a very colorful ProPhotoRGB image is converted to sRGB:

Clipped colors from ICC profile conversions

This pixls.us post/thread might be helpful:

How to cope with colours going out of gamut?

I’m assuming you are using the darktable built-in sRGB profile. This is a bog-standard matrix profile. It doesn’t have a perceptual intent table. I suspect that if you export your file using all four “intents”, you’ll produce four identical files. Cambridge in Colour is a wonderful website and the referenced article is excellent. However, the output profiles that he’s talking about are Look-Up Table printer or CMYK profiles with four intent tables. The sRGB profile is a matrix profile and doe…