Elliptical control points in Silver Efex but not PhotoLab?

[Egregius ([Greg] (Micro 4/3 + Win11))]

I, too, was hoping that DxO would port the new control point shapes to PhotoLab. While I’m disappointed that this didn’t make it into PhotoLab 9, it could still arrive in a future release. Only DxO knows. Fortunately, DxO is still improving control points in PhotoLab, as PL9 shows.

While it isn’t the oldest of the open feature requests for this, the following topic does have plenty of votes. You can add your vote and comments to it to hopefully get DxO’s attention.

Control Point area of influence either elliptical or rectangular

Often, defining either positive or negative control points, a circle is not always the best shape. For example, if I want to affect a rectangular building, a circular positive mask often means I have to apply lots of negative masks to limit the effect to the rectangle. The same principle applies to negative masks, where they can often overlap a positive area by too much or need quite a lot of negative masks to effectively mask a rectangular positive area. My suggestion is that we should be able…