Hi,
We have three kinds of “sharpening” “dehazing” “clarity” kind of contrast sliders.
Clearviewplus, microcontrast, fine contrast
In order to get dehaze working, which is not really sharpening but more adding a form of blackisch dots in the image to drag the feaded image back to max black and max white or get clarity which is enhancing colordept and contrast.
Texure, detail is made by (near)black micro, verysmall dots in a certain row around colorplanes accentuating that colorplanes border which give’s it pronounced edges.
In the dxo’s manual you see that fine contrast is used in portret presets.
Which suggest it’s less agressive then microcontrast which makes peoples skin ugly.
So the most agressive one is the plane microcontrast slider. This one you must use very modest.
Next in line is the smarter version of microcontrast, microcontrast is spreading black microdots everywhere evenly wile clearview plus is having a algorithm which analizing the image in order to determine where microcontrast should help to enhance details and let area’s allone which have no bennefit from that.
Stil don’t use it often above 20-30%.
The last one , fine contrast, has a bit larger dots and less black. Aka it’s effects are softer. Hence the portret use for skinetones.
This slider you can shift much further/higher before it goes ugly.
I did a comparison between dxo’s black,blacklevel, sharpening, dehaze, clarity kind of tools and those of Silkypix v10.
Can’t find it any more.
If i have the time i look at my pc to see if i have still the data and test images.
Best way to test behavior is shift slider to the max plus and min of it’s there and compare it to what you know of how that works.