Originally posted by Stratario I was playing with both ACR and PPL tonight and I notice a real nice red box looked completely different on the two converters. PPL reds looking exactly like the original and the ACR reds looking washed out and faded. I think your problem with the reds is not that much blowing the highlight but more about using the wrong RAW converter.
Yes RAW converters do matter. But usually just tone is different. If your reds are washed out in ACR it's probably a colorspace issue, sRGB vs aRGB.
Reminds me of the old "Rawshooter essentials" converter. Reds were usually an orangy red while software such as Silkypics produced RED...
nothing to do w/ colorspaces though, justprofiles/default curves.