

The automatic mask is similar to a brush, but with the ability to take into account the boundaries of monochromatic sections, you roughly select the desired zones, the program takes over the rest. Control points define the circles in which the effect will be applied, with their help you can select areas where it will not be applied. There are several ways to set these same points: a brush that allows you to 'draw' the area of application of the correction, a gradient that allows you to make a correction, gradually 'coming to naught'. In short - you can set certain zones in the photo, and then change only some settings for them (brightness, contrast, exposure, and so on).

Those who have ever used Snapheal already understand the idea of this tool. Naturally, I will not even go into detail in detail regarding the correction of geometric distortions and features of lenses, all this Optics Pro knew how many years ago.Īnd thirdly, the main Nik Software trick is integrated into Photo Lab - point settings. DxO Clear View solved these problems, and this filter is more sensitive to colors than Dehaze in Lightroom. People living in mountainous terrain, regularly faced with the inability to make a beautiful photo due to the fact that distant objects are closed by this veil. DxO Clear View, which appeared several years ago, also effectively solves another widespread problem of landscape photos - haze. Another unique tool - DxO Smart Lighting, as it is easy to understand from the name, allows you to improve the situation with the light in the photo, but it does this also taking into account the features and profile, and the photo itself, which allows you to avoid increasing the noise level, “knocking out colors”, loss contrast and other problems of conventional solutions to the problem of illumination.

The nice thing is that, in addition to quality, DxO do not forget to optimize it for speed. Based on the knowledge of the specific features of the “noise” of specific cameras, it sometimes allows you to even draw out those images that are being passed on to Adobe solutions. First and foremost, of course, this is their noise control algorithm, called PRIME denoising. We will not go into particularly deep details now, just briefly mention a few special “items of pride” of the developers of Photo Lab.
