I didn't remember exactly what it was about, but I found the post, and it
was about converting to BW:
https://discuss.pixls.us/t/black-printing-problem/19048/6

I appreciate the explanation.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 10:42 PM Matt Maguire <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Le sam. 5 sept. 2020 à 11:55, Bill Martz <[email protected]>
> a écrit :
>
>> I will have to dig through my Pixls posts to find this, but I posted
>> about a problem using channel mixer, and I received that suggestion in
>> reply. I tried it, and it fixed the problem as far as I could tell. I will
>> see if I can find it tomorrow.
>>
>
> Putting the channel mixer after the filmic module will "solve" the
> clipping problem, but remember that channel mixer is doing a matrix
> multiplication. When you multiply in a linear space like we have before
> fimlic, you are doing a scaling, but when you multiply in a log space like
> what we have after filmic, it becomes like raising the values to a power,
> which will mess around with the contrast. If the adjustments are small,
> maybe this won't matter too much in practice, but I was just warning from a
> maths perspective, it could become problematic especially for larger
> adjustmentd. The ideal situation is to do those sorts of scaling and
> rotation transformations in a linear space without doing any clipping, then
> at the end of those transforms you apply your non-linear look transform
> using filmic/tonecurve/basecurve/whatever.
>

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