I think what most people trying to say is if you need to fix it it started wrong. in or out your reach of control doesn’t matter.
If you take effort in the taking part you have a better start at postdeveloping.
Fixing tools are always usefull.
Lots of tools in dxopl we asked for our selfs. All of them are fixingtools.
Some/most of them can create artefysial looks.
Like the blur slider which is to control DoF. Only in the way you can make more blur and less DoF NOT the otherway around.
Why? You can mutch, blur rhings who are there in focus but out of focus things are just pixels which, in this case Sharpen AI, is guessing what those blobs of pixels should be presenting. Sometimes it’s done right sometimes it’s doen wrong.
If you use deepprime plus you get the same kind of feeling.
Personally i hope they don’t go much further in the guessing street.
Aldoh i would like to have a WB which can be used as auto correct overcast and misjudgement of awb in the camera.
Now i use an other application for that and take over the numbers in dxo.
That said.
Buy and use what ever you like to use to develop your images. It’s a free word.
To add,i was for my job at a photoprint studio and they had a very nice collection of arty photo’s on there walls. (i didn’t snapshot them with my phone i feld wrong about that in respect to the maker and my function at that time.)
Most of them where not real in any way but very powerfull and beautiful.
They took an well composed shot of an model human or animal and enhanched/modifyed it from there to surreal looks.
A bit like these
