Camera RAW 4.1 "rendering intent"

Question

When Camera RAW 4.1 creates the output in the user selected color space (Adobe RGB, ProPhoto,...), how does it handle out of gamut colors? Is there any way to affect the choice of "rendering intent"?

Answer 1

"Does this imply that if a RAW image contains heavily saturated, out of gamut colors, then these could appears as featureless "blobs"?"
That depends...it's generally not the highly staurated colors that are the problem. Ironically most color spaces, even sRGB can handle most all the highly saturated colors in nature that a camera can capture (some of course fall out). But it's the DEEP saturated colors where sRGB and even Adobe RGB fail. Deep yellows (browns) and deep oranges are often capable of being captured by the camera and are contained in ProPhoto RGB but are gamut and saturation clipped in sRGB and even Adobe RGB. And yes, those areas can suffer blobiness...