Thank you, Jeff, Well spotted. That wasn’t what I expected, given that the function is still designated as Beta in Photoshop 2024. I wonder why they haven’t improved on this. It isn’t that difficult to improve the performance. I have developed a (Beta stage) Action in which Neural Color Transfer is just one of the steps. It seems to do better. The Neural Color Transfer processing has, I assume, been optimised for stand-alone processing. Presumably a Neural Filter that has been re-optimised to operate within my Action sequence would do better again, so there is further stretch potential here. I have developed a new method of Colour Transfer aimed at a specialist application which gives yet a different outcome! The base and palette images for this processing come from a paper ‘Deep Photo Style Transfer’ (2017). Two of the authors of that paper are (or were) Adobe employees. For the subject images, the current PS processing does better than was achieved in the paper. However, some of the good examples of processing in the paper are probably not matched by the current PS implementation. Presumably, it has been made more robust. The best cases are no longer so good but the worst case are no longer so bad.
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