DxO PhotoLab 3 - Realistic Local Adjustments
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- In this video tutorial I explain how to make realistic Local Adjustments using the tools in DxO PhotoLab 3.
I’ve received quite a few emails asking me to explain how the Local Adjustment tools work in DxO PhotoLab 3. In this video I explain each of the local adjustment tools as well as explaining what purpose each is best suited to. I then demonstrate the tools and how you can use them to create realistic adjustments to a landscape photo.
Whilst this video demonstrates DxO PhotoLab 3, you can also apply the tools and techniques to earlier versions of PhotoLab. You won’t have the new helpful Layers feature, but you can still achieve excellent results.
You can learn more about DxO PhotoLab here: www.dxo.com/dxo-photolab/
At the time of publishing DxO has a 50% Black Friday sale which is great value. - Навчання та стиль
A very welcome and useful addition to your existing PhotoLab tutorials, including some of the new features in v3.
Thanks. If this one goes down well I will produce a few more.
Robin, I used to watch your videos a while back. I took a break, sort from photography/Videography. I am back and glad to see you are still providing these class A videos. Thank you
Nice to hear that you're back and that you think so highly of my videos. Thank you.
Wow, a lot going on there - thanks for the detailed walkthrough of the 'local adjustments' aspects; very useful information, thanks RW.
No problem. I hope it helps.
Thank you Robin for doing this.
You're welcome
Thank you a great intro I had been struggling and stopped experimenting I now understand some of the errors I was making, thanks
You're very welcome. It's great hearing that I've been able to help someone.
Excellent tutorial... Yet again! Thanks. Clear view plus really is a game changer for my High DR shots .. some awesome tips there!
Thank you.
Thanks. This is so much more helpful than what is on the DxO site. I just got PL3 during Black Friday sales but having difficulty finding as many tutorials as for PS.
Great to hear you found it helpful. I will add to the PL3 tutorials over the coming months. It great software.
Very useful, thanks Robin.
Thanks. It always helps me to know when a video is useful.
Thank you Robin for your clarity, learnt a lot from you, much more from DXO. Keep up the good work much appreciated
Thank you very much. I'll keep trying to find good material.
@@RobinWhalley Robin there any chance that you could maybe do a beginner series.. I am a recent convert to DX having come off Adobe, tried On1 and must admit I am floundering a bit. Thank you
@@jasonlacey5979 It is on my list already but will take time. Once I can fit some space into my schedule I will see what I can do.
Thank you, it was most helpful.
Great, thank you
Very clear and most helpful, thank you.
Thank you. I'm pleased you found it helpful.
This would have saved me a lot of time and experimentation. Getting clear explanations of DxO features has been a challenge. One quick comment: the local adjustments popup in the upper left corner can be turned off with the "i" key; this is not real obvious. Also, the local adjustments help menu is toggled with the "e" key.
I'm finding I like DxO's local adjustments more and more as I understand them and gain proficiency. You suggestion on lowering flow and opacity with the eraser and brush is very helpful.
Thanks for adding the additional information. I'm sure this will be helpful for other users.
Spectacularly useful!
Thank you. That's great to hear.
Really interesting insights and tips here. Thanks very much for sharing this. Best wishes for 2020.
I'm pleased you liked it. Best wishes to you as well.
It was very useful for me. Thanks ! :)
You're welcome
Very good tutorial. It was very useful to me. Thank you ! :)
Glad it was helpful!
Great, as always!
Thank you
Excellent Tutorial.
Thank you.
Very useful. Thanks!
PL3 is 50% off today (Black Friday)! Thanks for all your DxO videos.
It's a great deal if you want the software.
great first glans on the new LA toolkit.(it's more usable now in PLv3) Imho the best way to "See" a mask selection of the brushes and also the other like gradient and upoint (this has also the mask B&W as shown in video) is by using saturation slider al the way to max desaturation. The "grey area" is your selection and by pressing ALT (windows) you can change brush in erasor and back for fine tuning erase and paint over. Same desaturation trick can be used in the HSL tool. less bright then exposure to the max. Can't wait to see you diving in DxOPLv3 deeper working with all available tools to create a image as wanted. (seen your NIKcollection one's)
Thank you and thanks for the additional suggestion about the masks.
Great video, thank you. Are you planning any videos on the new version of the Nik collection? I’m not sure exactly what has changed in this version, and while I normally buy every Nik update, I’m not sure about this one. What do you think?
It depends which version of the Nik Collection you mean when you say new and what you're comparing it against. If you mean the Nik COllection 2.3, I wrote this article which should clear things up lenscraft.co.uk/photography-blog/nik-collection-2-3/
Thank you for the video. As it's half price right now (20% better than the adverts I've been flooded with since its released), I was wondering whether you think it's worth upgrading to photolab 3, from 2. I ask as, although I bought photolab because I wanted to support the company, their behaviour this year seems like it might have been less _generous_ to users than before the restructuring and this upgrade, which seems to only include two tools and UI upgrades, seems more like an update, than a full mainline upgrade.
Don;t forget, upgrades aren't just about adding more new tools. IMprovements to make the software easier to work with also count for a lot. Additionally, most companies are now having interim releases rather than one big one. I think it's to counter the Adobe release machine. If you want to check out the new features in PhotoLab 3, here's a link to the review I did ua-cam.com/video/OKqTG7BmFJc/v-deo.html. And if you're wondering, yes I upgraded because I tried the software and thought there was value for what I do.
Excellent video. Do you ever use the Nik Collection now that PhotoLab 3 has integrated many of it’s features. For a non-destructive workflow with a raw image, is it possible to go from PL3 to Nik without creating a tiff and use multiple files?
Good question. It's not currently possible to bypass the TIFF stage when going from PhotoLab to Nik. Because of this and a couple of other things my workflow when using PhotoLab is to export to Photoshop. I then use the Nik Collection inside a Smart Object so that I can refine the adjustments and control points later if necessary.
Thanks so much for this video. I’m very familiar with Nik plug-ins. I recently got DXO 2.3 and was thinking how I would’ve taken the original image into Nik and used Viveza to do get the same result. When should I use PhotoLab local adjustments instead of Viveza? Do you have a “rule of thumb “ that you follow? Thanks so much for any advice!
Good question and no I don't have a rule of thumb other than I start with PhotoLab. When I hit the limit of what I can achieve easily in PhotoLab I would then switch to Nik. I know some will say you should do everything in PhotoLab to maximise quality before exporting a TIFF to Viveza. There is merit in this but I haven't seen any problems caused by not doing it either. In short, do what works best for you.
Thanks for this video Robin. I'm not sure I like the behaviour when using the U-Points in that when you are editing them you lose a little definition in the actual image until you stop editing the u-point. I've noticed this when trialling PhotoLab 3 on my windows machine; it would be better I think if you could see the changes in real time.
You should be able to see the changes in real-time by turning off the mask view. Am I misunderstanding? I often do.
@@RobinWhalley I just find that when I start using the U points, the whole image loses a little definition, then when you complete your current adjustment on one of the sliders, the definition returns.
@@ChrisEdgecombePhoto Ah, I understand what you're saying. I think it's down to the lens correction module. It looks like it does a cached rendering each time you make a change. The lack of definition is how the image would look without the module and its sharpening (in the Detail panel). If you look to the top right of the preview when this happens you will see a whirling icon in dark grey. This shows the preview is still processing to refresh and reflect the changes you made.
If I have lens correction on within the camera, will Photolab use the already corrected RAW or will it remove the correction and apply its own?
My understanding is that if you have the DxO Camera and Lens Modules installed to PhotoLab for the RAW file your editing, PhotoLab will use those rather than the camera corrections. I'm sure I have read that somewhere but I've just been looking round and I can't find it. I've certainly seen improved performance from the DxO modulesand the image in this video is just one example. The RAW file does have a correction profile embedded but the results in other RAW converters fall well short of the PhotoLab correction (before I make any adjustments). If I delete or turn off the lens module the performance is on a par with other converters. This is of course my view and I always recommend people to download the trial to test.
I wasted many hours trying to discover how to turn on the reset, close, and mask options in the palette at the bottom of the image that appears when the local adjustments are activated, which you first mention at around 2:30 of this video. I finally discovered elsewhere that this palette is not available on a PC.
I'm sure I read somewhere that they had plans to level up the PC feature with the Mac.
Hi. Great Vlog as usual. When you open the local adjustment and you open a control point I see just below the picture there is another tool bar (Show mask reset close etc.) How do you open this toolbar? I have tried everything but cannot find it. Thanks.
Are you using Windows? I believe there may still be some differences betweent eh Windows and Mac version and think this is one of them.
Yes I am using windows so that's maybe the reason. Thanks for your reply
I still don't fully understand how the auto brush works.
Oh, also an FYI... The Lower Tool bar which appears during Local Adjustment selection is NOT present in Windows ... Another UI discrepancy unfortunately!... Cheers...
Yes, I think someone else mentioned that although it may have been on another DXO video.
Even more expensive than Lightroom. And I was looking for an alternative... 🙄
Try Darktable. It's a free open source photo organiser that has a lot in common with Lightroom. Some of the RAW converter adjustments can take a bit to get used to but its quite good.
Lol
I wonder why you are presenting the program based on such a miserable picture. How should you imagine what is possible. the photo is just as terrible at the end of the editing process as it was at the beginning. I would never get the idea to buy your software with this extraordinarily poor introduction.
I think you have made some incorrect assumptions. The software isn't mine and I don't care whether you buy it or not. This is a video explaining how to use the software to make local adjustments. It's not here to sell you something.
I think the picture chosen is quite appropriate and brings out the intended lesson well....The "ordinary" is what is more normal, and its really nice to know how to work on them to bring out their best. Thank you Robin Whalley.
I liked the photo and thought the adjustments improved it, but more importantly I now have a good idea how to use local adjustments in DXO Photolab, where before I was struggling.
@@sureshrajagopalan7193 You're welcome
@@TillyOrifice Thank you