Fixing that would be a nice upgrade. It is more of a cosmetic problem because for me it is only to select the RAW-pictures and press F3 twice and then Photolab is there with rhe real thing and unlike Photolab iMatch also has the possibility to display corresponding developed JPEG-files in subdirectories which allows us to simple see both RAW and JPEG sida by side. So it doesn’t really bother me all that much. It would be more of a nice to have.
It doesn’t bother me either as I don’t use a DAM. 
However, for Lightroom users who want to move to DXO-Photolab it would be a very big plus. Such a simple thing for DXO to do, that would be all benefits and no downside. So my guess is that it will be a cold day in hell before they would do it.
This might seem petty, but I’d like the sidebar fonts to be larger or adjustable, at least.. At 71, it’s hard to see all of the options.
<< addendum >> If I change the resolution of my monitor from 2560 X 1440 to 2048 X 1152, the text is a bit larger and more useable.
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That’s not petty. It’s called accessibility. The size and contrast ratio of the text has been discussed on mulitple occasions.
It should absolutely be addressed.
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It was a little. I managed to get larger fonts by slightly decreasing the resolution of my monitor. However, if DxO did add font adjustments, the larger fonts would tend to reduce the real estate of the main screen. Compromises I guess are in order.
meanwhile one can use a loupe / magnifier accessibility feature provided by OS (or 3rd party app ) …
That’s a workaround, not a solution. It also increases the space taken by every control which you may not have any trouble seeing and operating. As needs must, but accessibility should be table stakes these days. (It always should have, but current sensibilities effectively demand it.)
It “fixes” PhotoLab, but it also affects every other application on your computer, too.
That is exactly it. It’s about compromise. Some people will value space for their photos. Some people will value being able to read the text without eye strain. Let each user choose.
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Good points. For me, though, the lower resolution didn’t really affect any other apps in a noticeable way. They’re more readable as well. But I agree with you that font size should be something adjustable.
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AI (mask) prompt builder (in a limited way, not 3 sentence description of the prompt). I know, its not easy as its seems. results high chance vary. Use case is limites. But may some case works out just Okay.
Examples: Vehicle → Car ; Face → Woman ; Clothes → Bag ; Hair → Blonde (color description) ; Clothes → Blue ; Clothes → Blue Wide (prompt for ‘wider’ color detection, also a bit outside of blue) ; Animal → Middle (of the photo) - For example: mask only the ‘center’ dog in the dogshow.
Of course its can be also a problem (from business point of view): users start to complain, why its not detect only the ‘red car’ (if its detect anything).
I have one (and now only one) use case: Clothes → Bag.
Yes, I agree. It’s surely an accessibility issue for anyone who doesn’t have perfect eyesight. As someone who’s new to the software, I spend too much time squinting at the screen to find the right control
Wouldn´t that be possible to fix/harness in the same manner as iMatch is harnessing AI from polluting the keywords and the Keywords-list in the Thesaurus with all sorts of garbage? That is obtained by using a Thesaurus/Controlled Vocabulary in iMatch and it is just to turn on a built in process that dynamically is peventing AI from adding any other Keywords than the ones present in the present Controlled Vocabulary of the Thesaurus.
If you have access to a “Controlled Vocabulary” to import or you prefer to create one by locking the Thesaurus after having letting AI create the keywords and later preventing AI from updating it is just two different ways to do it.
This function works both for flat Keywords and hierarchic ones which for the first time I have seen even makes a hierarchic Thesaurus manageable. Trying to do that manually in for example PhotoMechanic is a pure hell - I have tried it :-(.
The backside of using “Controlled Vocabularies” often use to be that they feels like slippinbg in a totally inflexible straight jacket where you often just can´t find a proper suitable keyword to use.
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The only thing I wish for now is really proper face retouch tools and masks like in Capture One. Eyes, sclera, pupils masks too
That is the only think I really miss now.
And one thing too: I think all my Sony-cameras have had problems with clear blue skies that often get far to much saturation and “black”. I find myself mostly trying to correct these Sony-skies. After close to 20 years these problems still are there. That really puzzles me. There is nothing in Photolab that addresses these problems in an effective manner either.
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Better skin-tone control would be a blessing - although Lightroom’s Point Colour probably provides similar power and could be used for more than just skin.
I do find that out of the three (LR, C1, PL) the first two have better control for people’s skin. PL I find somewhat hit and miss.
Can’t you just make a new Preset in PL with a “new blue” and have that as default preset?
No becuase it is not a “one size fix that fits all blue sky problems”.