I mean… it took Adobe many, many years before they even thought to introduce an iPad app of any kind and even then they started from scratch and have slowly, slowly been improving it. Last I checked (which was a while ago) they were quite a long way from feature parity with Lightroom Classic.
Could DxO get a much better start than Adobe did? I guess so. Personally, I would not hold my breath.
Mind you… and some people will not like to hear this… there are way more iPad users than Linux users, I think.
My wish: A Photolab SDK to connect some third apps to PLB.
Usecase: Create a plugin for PLB ( DAM, Web service, ..). Create MCP server or AI Plugin ( Connecte Claude AI, Gemini, ..) as automation tool for PLB.
the use of a flat frame (preferably a stack of flat frames) during raw processing before demosaicing takes place. A flat frame corrects for lens vignetting and dust particles on the sensor. It is used primarily in astrophotography.
I have discovered stitching is very difficult to do well. The ones built into other ‘darkroom’ products all struggle on anything but the most basic task. As such, I think it should remain the domain of dedicated products.
Try AutoPano Giga or Hugin. Both are free. Both are up there with the best commercial option, PTGui.
DxO should definetely bring the trash tray icon (trash can) back:
either one icon per pic (as before at PL8 et al)
or one central icon to delete all selcted pics
Why?
Wildlife photographers often shoot in burst mode and get thousands of pics per day. From a burst series of 30 pics only e.g. two are worth to keep (plus jpg & RAW …). So we need a quick possibility to select and delete files without using the right mouse button pop up menue. Right mouse button is too slow and includes the danger of hitting the wrong menue item.
Using the keyboard with Shift+Del is also not very efficient as you need to remove your hand from the mouse.
So please bring the trash can icon back! I’m sure that also Mac users would be happy about this feature.
Additionally:
something that is really annoying since years: The support of Android RAW (DNG) is still missing.
I’d expect that at least the RAWs/DNGs of the high end camera phones like Google Pixel / Samsung S-Series / Sony Xperia are supported.
I know that DNG is not the same like a RAW from a camera, but the same is valid for Apple ProRAW, which is already supported. And a Smartphone DNG definetely contains more information than a smartphone jpg.
While this wouldn’t be useful to me, I can see how it would be an excellent quality-of-life improvement for others.
But… the way you phrased that got me thinking of one other, similar, thing I’d like to see fixed. While you can use the arrow keys (at least on Mac) to move left/right between images in the Library view, you cannot use up/down and you cannot hold the Shift key to select as you go. Even though you can Shift-click to select a range.
Actually… while just checking out whether I was right about the Shift key (I was), I noticed you CAN use up/down. I swear that didn’t work quite recently is it new?
Great inputs and agree with you Torstein. I would also suggest that DxO add or improve the recently added “diffusion” slider to a “Bi - Directional” effect. Currently it acts only as a “growth” extension feature where it makes the mask grow and diffuse outward away from the AI boarder mask. To be really effective the “diffusion” slide needs to be bi-directional like so many other DxO slides (+/- direction). The diffusion feature would be much better if I could “Shrink” the AI mask back inside the AI boarder. So often the DxO 9.6 AI masks over masks the subjects and I can see it bleeding over the boarder. We need a “shrink” or negative diffusion capability. Anthropic Portrait Pro has a bi - directional masking diffusion feature where you can “grow” or “shrink” the mask boarder
why not just use the reject - press x - keyboard shortcut and cull all the ones you want to get rid off - once done filter to show rejected only and them cmd+A then cmd+delete - that way you get a second chance to check you didnt delete any you wanted to keep
In this picture, it seems that I have much distortion on the components but my lens is the same as usual and I have processed with DxO. So manual action could solve that issue.
Tone curves in local adjustments, a decent color grading tool (i.e. the one in the new Nik Collection) and a depth mask (not critical but would be nice - again in new Nik Collection) and negative clearview plus (currently only positive adjustments.
