What visual differences and artefacts have practitioners reported with ACES 2.0 compared with ACES 1.x (blue gradients, desaturation, colour break-up), and what do ACES working-group members say about causes and remedies?
Practitioners on ACEScentral reported in 2025 that ACES 2.0 can over-desaturate and show colour break-ups on some saturated sources (one attributing it to the chroma compression), and a relayed working-group answer says the default trades a pleasing look for every image against reaching display corners and invertibility, with LMTs as the remedy. Statements on the Reference Gamut Compression differ: a working-group member says it remains compatible with no recommendation either way, while another participant recommends keeping it disabled because ACES 2 has its own gamut mapper. The ACES docs claim ACES 2 avoids ACES 1 clipping artefacts even with RGC; the reports bound that claim for particular colours rather than refute it. As of a 17 March 2026 TSC summary, a 'technical' LMT for ACES-1-like contrast was being explored and not published.
Practitioners on ACEScentral reported in 2025 that ACES 2.0 can over-desaturate and show colour break-ups on some saturated sources (one attributing it to the chroma compression), and a relayed working-group answer says the default trades a pleasing look for every image against reaching display corners and invertibility, with LMTs as the remedy. Statements on the Reference Gamut Compression differ: a working-group member says it remains compatible with no recommendation either way, while another participant recommends keeping it disabled because ACES 2 has its own gamut mapper. The ACES docs claim ACES 2 avoids ACES 1 clipping artefacts even with RGC; the reports bound that claim for particular colours rather than refute it. As of a 17 March 2026 TSC summary, a 'technical' LMT for ACES-1-like contrast was being explored and not published.
Curator qualifications: Forum threads and docs read 2026-10-22; no images rendered; user reports only. Forum participants referred to by role; usernames not recorded. Forum reports are uncontrolled user observations (reported_execution, not curator-observed). Thread t/5765 fetched but not used for a quoted claim.
Limitations: Forum threads and docs read 2026-10-22; no images rendered; user reports only.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] Practitioners on ACEScentral reported in 2025 that ACES 2.0 can over-desaturate and show colour break-ups on some saturated sources (one attributing it to the chroma compression), and a relayed working-group answer says the default trades a pleasing look for every image against reaching display corners and invertibility, with LMTs as the remedy. Statements on the Reference Gamut Compression differ: a working-group member says it remains compatible with no recommendation either way, while another participant recommends keeping it disabled because ACES 2 has its own gamut mapper. The ACES docs claim ACES 2 avoids ACES 1 clipping artefacts even with RGC; the reports bound that claim for particular colours rather than refute it. As of a 17 March 2026 TSC summary, a 'technical' LMT for ACES-1-like contrast was being explored and not published. · locator: ACEScentral thread t/5812 (live); ACEScentral thread t/5770 post 7 (April 2025); ACEScentral TSC Meeting Summary - March 17, 2026; aces-docs docs/background/about-rendering.md @7c34c210 lines 19, 68-69 source
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