I’ll be writing a more detailed article on workflow further down the line, this section is focused on comparison with the competition and highlights the new features DxO have introduced in V7 as well as the Wide Gamut Color Space introduced at the beginning of the year. This declutters the UI by removing the adjustment panel for any given control point or line from the image and placing it in the panel itself, benefitting from the extra space available in the panel and clearing the view of the image. PhotoLab 7 makes this easy by organizing local adjustment tools such as Control Points into a new dedicated panel on the right of the workspace. The ability to make precise local adjustments is a vital part of creative photo editing. The interface introduces a new tab to switch between colour and monochrome and a range of new film renderings – plus PhotoLab 7 includes introduces a six-channel mixer for complete tonal control across black-and-white photography. PhotoLab 7 has new tools that help photographers create a better monochrome workflow. Photographers can now use the HSL Colour Wheel as part of local adjustments, enabling you to adjust the colour of a subject’s clothing, or the autumn foliage of a tree for example, without impacting other areas of the image where the same colour exists. PhotoLab first began to raise the standards in colour control through its innovative and much imitated HSL Colour Wheel. HSL Editing Available in Local Adjustments Using LUTs enables photographers to speed up their workflow by capturing a combination of global edits in a LUT and applying that to their images in one stroke. LUTs builds on previous advances made in colour management at the beginning of 2023 where DxO re-engineered the colour processing algorithms, introduced DxO Wide Gamut extended working colour space and improved Soft Proofing mode. Look Up Tables (LUTs)are now available in PhotoLab 7: now available with 17 DxO starter Simply include the colour chart from DataColor or Calibrite in one photograph, apply the correction using the correct preset (DataColor or Calibrite) and copy to the rest of the batch. PhotoLab 7’s unique tool, working with industry-standard colour checker charts from Calibrite and DataColor, enables consistency of colour to be applied to batches of images. PhotoLab 7 empowers photographers to apply true-to-life, scientifically accurate colour profiles to their images. New Features in PhotoLab 7 Colour Correction To have such responsiveness from PL7 is a very welcome improvement. The speed of the old fashioned G-Tech EV spinning disk drives is the bottleneck in the system. The images and working directories are stored on a G-Dock containing two drives linked via Thunderbolt to the computer. So not the fastest, but not quite obsolete either. The system I use is a three year old Mac Mini with 3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB and 32Gb RAM. These impressions are subjective, however I’ve found the UI to be smoother and more quickly responsive, using the same computer I used to review v6. In fact where Adobe risk adding complexity having completely different implementations of layers in Lightroom and Photoshop, DxO have simply made local adjustments more powerful and more accessible. Where competitors use layers, DxO have revamped the local adjustment tools bringing them into direct competition with Adobe Lightroom’s new implementation of layers. Throw Silver Efex Pro into the mix and you have class leading processing for black and white processing throughout the workflow. The tooling is now much more capable of delivering high precision colour grading, based on empirical data than it was in previous editions.Īdditionally there is improved support for Black and White processing which is more usable than the equivalent offerings from Adobe and CaptureOne. Extra flexibility is introduced via the addition of LUTs and Colour profiles. So where are DxO placing their bets?Ĭolour is the main battlefield and in the new release we see DxO catching up with both Lightroom and CaptureOne in terms of colour management. CaptureOne have added Stitching (For Panoramas) and HDR merge, powered by support for Layers. Where there was clear blue sky between DxO and Adobe in terms of noise processing, Adobe’s new noise processor in Lightroom Classic closes that gap noticeably. Time in the photography industry doesn’t stand still. HSL Editing Available in Local Adjustments.
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