Color Rendition Profiles

Raw to RGB conversion is a key process to making an image visible to the human eye. Color rendition is a part of this conversion.
Each camera model performs this color rendition in its own way because camera manufacturers know that absolute color fidelity is usually not what is expected by photographers. Each camera therefore produces its own “image look”, very much in the same way that each film type produces a particular “image look”.

With DxO Optics Pro, you can take full control of the color rendition of your Raw images by selecting one of the available profiles, or even importing your own.

Have you ever thought of turning your Nikon D2X capture into, for example, a finished Canon EOS 1Ds photo?

Canon EOS 1D MII

Canon EOS 1Ds

Nikon D2X

Photo: Philippe Tarbouriech

You can choose to give images shot with a DxO Optics Pro supported camera the look and feel of any other DxO Optics Pro supported camera.

Color rendition profiles are extremely useful when you need to ensure a uniform look across images taken with different camera bodies (even from the same manufacturer):

Render your backup (e.g., D200) shots into same color profile as your main (e.g., D2X) camera
Ensure a standard profile across the entire agency or company while letting your photographers use their preferred cameras
Give your digital pictures a film look

You can choose to give your Digital SLR pictures a film look, by choosing from the list of available DxO film profiles.


Canon 1Ds original photo	Ektachrome 100 “look”

Fuji Provia “look”	Fuji Velvia “look”

Photo: Philippe Tarbouriech

The complementary product DxO FilmPack offers multiple possibilities: the "looks" of more than twenty color and B&W films so you can re-create the color and grain of conventional films. More details here...

Ensure accurate color rendering for critical applications, whatever your camera body, with fidelity profile


Camera native color profile	DxO Optics Pro Fidelity color rendition profile

Photo: Philippe Tarbouriech

This DxO Optics Pro fidelity color rendition profile is most useful for pack shot applications, where the image in the photo should match the coloration of the object depicted.
The profile encodes colors with accurate colorimetric rendition and standard tone curves at γ = 2.2, and under daylight (D65) or tungsten (Illuminant A) lighting.

Import your camera custom made ICC profile

This will allow you to achieve ultimate color fidelity in all other kinds of lighting conditions or alternatively achieve creative color rendering.