PL7: What's the best improvement in your experience?

[John-M (Melbourne, Australia - Win10)]

@MSmithy

why is there a visible slider that is grayed out in the user interface. If there is no use of it, why not simply remove it from the interface?

@mwsilvers

The vibrancy slider in that location replaces the one in the Color Accentuation section from previous versions of PhotoLab . Color Accentuation has been removed in PL 7.

@MSmithy

So they moved around some old features and put them in different places.

Unfortunately; Yes - this is all the result of DxO’s (very poorly thought-out) decision to conflate (= merge & mix-up) Color Accentuation and HSL.

• The resulting issues are discussed here.

• And more of the “fall-out” is covered here.

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I suspect the issue that DxO were aiming to deal with, via this change, is that there were (with PLv6) actually two separate global Saturation settings; one via Color Accentuation + another via the global channel in the HSL tool … which, no doubt, was complicating coding logic.

• All the same, it would have been a much better solution to have simply disabled the Saturation slider for the global channel in the HSL tool … and then Color Accentuation could have been retained;

• This would have been a “cleaner” change - without the consequences of PLv7’s implementation