May i point you towards This thread about luminosity, contrast and such.
Edit, i disagree about the use of both smart lighting and exposure compensation, , they can be used together and be usefull with that. By using the boxes to pointout the places of interest you can use that for limitations, thresholds, so you can use that wile lowering or lifting general exposure.
Some things i understand more now but i still stand behind my old first comments.
Now a day’s there are such a row of contrast influencing tools and sliders that you can undo things of earlier settings wile activating an other.
Certainly when the magic wants are active.
This is also a thing when you keep adding “functions and tools” without investigating there connections, wanted and unwanted.
Finetuning existing tools is a higher priority then adding new one’s.
Like magic brush, after the painting you want to see what the auto shape sees as selected,so you can correct. Now you need to use the eraser to be sure.
That said, ive bin joining DxOPL in v1.1 and they are come a long way sins then.
Not all things are at this moment fully bloomed , cof, dam cof, but the are building structures for the benefit of most users in general and some things have to grow slowly (on you)… Can’t wait to see and use the win v3.0 version.
From what i saw in the mac version i like it.