Something seems to have changed with the presets in PhotoLab 6.7:
I edited an image and first used the “Perspective” button for an automatic correction. PL rectified and straightened the image perfectly and cropped the edges to fit. After that, I just moved the upper and lower edges a little with the crop tool so that a few more details were included at the top and bottom of the finished image.
I usually do these steps first, because otherwise there may be shifts in the “local adjustments” that may be required.
I then applied the High Dynamic Range (Single-Shot HDR): 1 - HDR - Realistic preset to the image. After that, my automatic perspective correction and cropping was completely changed. It really shouldn’t be. So far, this preset has only influenced tone and brightness values as well as contrast and color accentuation. I had to undo the change and then manually enter all of these values so the perspective and crop weren’t touched.
I must stress that I have never created my own presets or made any changes to the existing ones. These are the original presets supplied by DxO.
I haven’t tried any other presets yet.
My system is a Windows 10x64 pc. I don’t know if this also happens on a Mac.
I did that as well, but I see no changes to the perspective or crop or anything, just tone and color change.
Yes. For me that is how it still works.
I don’t know if its a bug or something else, but as far as I can see the original presets that ship with DXO have a little lock icon, so they cannot be edited.
I can however copy the original preset to a new preset and than I can modify the settings by simply right mouse click and choosing EDIT on the preset name. In the tools panel there will various options one can check or un check.
Here the crop tool is opened after the automatic perspective correction. I’ve moved the top and bottom lines a little bit to the top and bottom edges to show as much as possible of the motorcycle.
I just tried and I think I had a slight modification of the crop by applying the preset.
But I can’t reproduce it.
On the other hand, twice PL closes as soon as I try to move the reshap.
I think I need to experiment a little more as to why this is happening to me. With different images and different presets. I’ve never noticed anything like this in all the years (including DxO Optics Pro). However, I don’t use different presets every day to try things out, but usually only use the standard preset. I’ll have to report back if I’ve gained further insights or come across any oddities.
Looks like distortion correction has changed…and this will also change crop.
I usually default my crop settings to manual and unconstrained and switch to auto on a per image basis. This helps to include more of an image, but a few cases resist and need manual adjustments like shown below. Nevertheless, changing the preset does not change the geometric properties of the image (macOS Sonoma beta on M1 MacBook Air 2020)
@Ralf_Brinkmann , I checked the preset. It’s a DPL standard, partial preset which does not change crop or anything…but in your screenshots, I find that you’ve checked “Auf Bild beschränken” (Distortion tool) in one case, but not in the other.
I found something out now and it may be the same as what you mean. I tried different presets and they all had the same distortion.
I noticed that under “Distortion” with the standard preset (i.e. immediately after opening the image or after a reset) under “Limit to image” there is no check mark.
However, after each application of any preset there was a tick in it and triggered the changed distortion. If I remove the tick again, the previous, desired state is restored.
