
CUSTOMISING DXO PHOTOLAB 2 MANUAL
It’s easy to apply automatic corrections and preset ‘looks’ in DxO PhotoLab, but the manual adjustments are detailed and technical. If you have the FilmPack and ViewPoint add-ons installed, these have their own palettes too.Īlong the top of the screen is a slim tools panel containing zoom tools, crop and straighten tools, Local Adjustments and more, while along the bottom of the screen is a thumbnail filmstrip showing the contents of the c currently selected folder. The default workspace displays a Histogram panel here, Essential Tools, Light, Colour, Detail and Geometry palettes. Over on the right side of the screen is the main tools area, containing a stack of collapsible palettes, each with is own set of tools which can be expanded or contracted via little arrows. The real editing work, though, is done in the Customize tab. You use the PhotoLibrary tab to browse your image folders, organise images into Projects (‘virtual’ albums) and use the new search tool. The PhotoLab interface is organised into two tabs. You can use it for simple one-click corrections, but getting the best from it demands a bit more expertise. PhotoLab is pretty technical, and it’s aimed more at experts than beginners. It is a feature that I personally don’t care for, and is easily fixed with the use of custom palettes in the Elite edition of PhotoLab.The FilmPack 5 add-on integrates with PhotoLab 2.1 to offer some superb black and white rendering options, though it is an additional purchase.

In Photolab, however, It’s the exact same tool which is just available for use in more than one location. If they were truly multiple instances, each one would be completely separate and would not recognize or be aware of changes to another instance. Modifying the same tool in multiple palettes is not the same as multiple instances. The behavior you seem to be describing with multiple separate instances of tools making separate changes does not exist. If you make modifications using a tool in one palette, those same modifications will be seen in the same tool in any other palette it happens to be in. if you select a tool in one pallet it automatically gets selected in any other palette it happens to exist in. While some tools are visually duplicated in more than one pallet, they all represent a single instance of the tool. I certainly hope I have not missed the original point of this conversation. I find that closing all pallets not currently in use keeps me more aware of what is already open and once in a while I will move a tool at the bottom of the tools up to the top of the stack for ease of use.

If a tool is open already and one attempts to open a new instance of the same tool, LP should put the first instance in focus for you, letting you know that you are already using that tool. I feel it is an oversight of DXO to anticipate that problem. It is not a problem of real estate, and I certainly would welcome a card that supported such.

On the other hand, If I use the second instance and then remove one or the other instance of the tool, it removes both instances and the work with them. Often times when this happens and I catch it in time, I can close the second instance with no problem. If this is the case, I also have the problem that I use a tool early in the flow, and then later, forgetting that a tool palette is already open, I open a second one.
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It shows to be about double tools, and how to keep that from happening. I am somewhat perplexed with this conversation as to what the original problem was.
