It looks like the “Portrait” toning is gone when selecting the “Wide gamut” color space:
Seems like. Also described in the manual
https://userguides.dxo.com/photolab/en/general-image-corrections/
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No it’s not.
Adobe £119.76 for a year. PL £89 upgrade each year.
Adobe £239.52 for 2 years. PL upgrade after 2 years £89.
Adobe £359.28 for 3 years. PL upgrade after 3 years £199.
So far I’m really liking this new upgrade. Can’t comment on the value for money of the upgrade, but I really dig:
- the new perspective adjustment which renders ViewPoint almost useless (because I don’t have very specific needs)
- the Retouch tools which deliver suprisingly good results very easily once you get how it works ! Still not as efficient as Affinity’s inpainting for example, but it seems to do the trick for the majority of edits
However, Deepprime XD hasn’t impressed me a lot for now. Same goes for the “new” colour adjustments, I think I still have a lot to learn. But I still miss a simple colour grading tool like we can find in LR or C1!
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Colour grading is simple to do in PhotoLab. Just use the local adjustments tool with either Control Lines or Control Points.
If you can show me how to grade the shadows, highlights & midtones separately just like in the 2 others mentioned software, I’d be glad to learn 
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I’d love to learn this (separate grading of highlights, midtones and shadows) too please 
OK. Original…
- Darks, like cabin window, tinted blue
- Midtones, like woodwork on hull and deck, tinted green
- Highlights, like white paint, tinted yellow
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Im not a Adobe subscription user, but to be fair it must be
Adobe Photoshop + Lightroom £359.28 for 3 years. PL upgrade after 3 years £199
and with LR (I own the old local 6.14) I have a professional DAM included and could open DNG’s from my Smartphones. I Use Affinity Photo by I could 
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I agree entirely! Should add to “Highlights of New Items”, "strong textStillstrong text no support for HEIC files. Photoshop/Lightroom are looking better and better. WHEN will DXO staff listen???
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That’s correct, that was the package Future Andrew mention and was the post I was replying to.
That’s been delayed many times now. You can comment and vote here:
In the meantime, maybe a batch convert to TIFF is the solution.
DxO = workarounder’s heaven 
At first I thought you had some unimaginably fast computer. Only after a while did I notice that “Heavy crop, that’s why so fast.”
So good I mentioned it 
In fact, the difference was at normal image size with DX=1min to Deep Prime=19sec. But I had to change the image because PL5 could not read the .dop of PL6.
for me the new version is as useless as version 5 and i will stay with Photolap 4 or look for an alternative.
There are 3 reasons why:
- modern cameras produce so many pictures per second that it is very hard to find the very best shot in a series. Since many years DXO refuses to enable the users to compare two or more pictures and the usual excuse (either use or third part software or “we don´t want to overload the app”) is sorry to say BS.
- vendors are producing more new lenses and cameras as DXO is able to deliver the respective profiles. This problem gets even worse as there are more and more cross vendor adapters available allowing users to use e.g. Canon glass with a Nikon. Without a function to enable the user to define his own camera-lens profile (until DXO deliver a professional one) DXO will be unable to deliver its core function.
- if the most energy went into noise reduction, for me it is as relevant as Volkswagen presents a new Bugatti sports car with 450km/h highspeed . Nice to see, no practical need for it, as the bulk of my photos are between ISO 64 and ISO 1600
So, why should i upgrade? the answer is easy, only because you don´t support new cameras in previous versions. Think about this unique selling point… Greetings to your marketing/productmanagement
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Indeed…
Yes, this has been an oft repeated request - but;
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It’s hardly a “show stopper” … there’s a raft of effective alternatives for image evaluation; many of them totally free to use.
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Even if DxO were to provide this feature within PL, I doubt many would be happy with the (likely) sluggish performance - as PL needs to render each image from a list of corrections - - from scratch (that is, PL is a non-destructive editor … it’s not simply throwing the encapsulated JPG up on the screen).
John M
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I use FastRawViewer for culling as it is VERY fast, displays the RAW data and has functions to evaluate sharpness. It is very configurable for ‘deleting’ and marking (stars etc) which flows through to PL just fine. Finally it is very reasonably priced!
My workflow:
- Delete obvious bad photos (delete actually moves the photos to a sub-directory so you can restore if you make a mistake)
- Mark photos with stars etc as required.
- Open PL and set appropriate filters to see the photos you want to work on. You can also reject photos if you decide you no longer want want.
I use XMP sidecars for this workflow and do not rely on the database.
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1, 2, 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock work… workaround rock 
You’re sure you know that it’s not a show stopper from people who turnt their backs towards DxO? Because for me this is a show stopper and unfortunately none of the plenty and/or free of use alternatives compares the results of DxO unless there’s an export as JPG or TIF. But you’re right, this alone is hardly a show stopper, it’s just one of all features on the show stopping list. And it gets larger by the day.
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