Has DxO provided information on DxO Smart Lighting, and how to find it

[Joanna (Joanna Carter)]

@mwsilvers

I believe she was referring to her own posts, but I can’t say for sure.

Actually, Mark, I was referring to both because both Päscal and I explain things differently and that can be useful to some.

But, since Mike doesn’t seem to be able to use the forums search, here are five links to my previous explanations, all found via the forums search…

Blocked Shadows? What Presets Can Do to Help

Ansel Adam’s Zone System doesn’t really work for digital positive images as it was designed for negative film, which has a much more restricted dynamic range. Indeed printing range on “wet” prints is around 7 stops but I have found that inkjet paper can cope with 8 (at a push). However, B&W negative film has a range of 10 stops, hence the 10 zones in the Zone System - the idea being to expose a negative in such a way that, in the case of a contrasty subject, any parts of the subject outside of …

How to cleanly recover shadows in this kind of subject in photolab

There is no problem with your exposure. You have no blown highlights to worry about. I am not sure why you applied exposure compensation of -⅔ in camera but there is still plenty of shadow detail available despite that. I too use a D850 and can assure you that, as long as you don’t over-expose, DxOMark shows 13.37 stops dynamic range at 400 ISO. So plenty of room for shadow recovery. Here is a screenshot of all the corrections I deemed necessary… [Capture d’écran 2023-09-08 à 17.14.49] On…

[MAC] New user to Photolab - underexposure issue

A lot of the time, it’s not under-exposing, it’s just that the RAW file can look under-exposed when compared with the (already processed) jpeg preview. You should never expect RAW images to look the same as you see them on the back of the camera, or even in Finder because you are only seeing the preview. This is the same with all RAW processing software because a user might prefer what you consider under-exposed. Which is why you can setup your preferred options in a custom preset. Take note…

Dull images with orange tint

Here’s an example of how I use Smart Lighting (spot mode) on a high contrast image : Unretouched image [09] Retouched image [51] All I have done here is : apply Smart Lighting (I’ve highlighted the rectangles) apply ClearView Plus lift the tone curve at the shadow end It took me all of 15 secs Don’t try to compare results achieved with another tool’s “magic” settings with what DxO can achieve with its own. The difference is that, with DxO, I know what has been done to my image and ca…

PhotoLab 4 with X-rite i1Display Studio display calibrator

Do you know something? In all the years of posting images on forums and galleries, nobody has ever said that my images are too bright. When I first calibrated my screen (years ago) I thought it was way too dull, but then I got used to it and now think the “average” screen is blindingly bright. This is difficult to achieve because you can’t swap brightness like you can a screen profile. You would need to get out the device and re-measure the screen every time. [Capture d’écran 2020-12-28 à 0…

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@mikemyers

Maybe it could be included here:

Maybe it is included here but you didn’t bother to read it…