DXO PHOTOLAB 7: HOW TO USE SMART LIGHTING TOOL FOR GREAT EDITS AND FASTER WORKFLOW

[@JoseCarlosRubiaRaya]

Watching this fantastic tutorial, it occurred to me to use Smart Lighting Spot Weighted in my bird photographs. Sometimes the background is very light and the bird is very dark with shadows. I have done several tests selecting the area of ​​the bird and the truth is that it also gives very good results. Thank you very much for the tutorial.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Thanks for the positive feedback. I agree that it gives very good result. The more I use it, the more I believe this should be the first tool to correct exposure in Photolab. I actually didn't know that it could work for animals,.I thought it was tuned to recognize only human faces. Learned something new!😊

[@Lysander-Spooner]

Excellent tutorial. I learned a lot about the tool. Thanks

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Didn't know you were using photolab 7 as well!

[@weddingbells100]

Many thank's for a very informative video thank you for sharing.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

You are very welcome

[@petermcginty3636]

Thank you for this video. I really leaner a lot from this video. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kgrant3]

I use spot weighted for architectural photos, where there are areas of deep shadow (such as a doorway). It's faster than using using control points/local adjustments.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Thanks for the feedback on the use case. I agree that it is both fast and effective. I'd recommend smart lighting nowadays before local adjustments

[@qwe1231]

I love the DXO content. I already have the Nik plugins and am thinking about migrating maybe to Photolab and stopping my Lightroom subscription.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Thanks for sharing! Both are great choices with their own advantages.

[@SergNikiforovGordeev]

Thank you very much!

[@takebetterphotos8132]

You're welcome!

[@JackMc-em2mj]

In spot weighted you don’t have to box faces. You can make a small box in the brightest area of interest and another in the the darkest and the algorithm will nicely balance the tonal range.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Thanks for the tip. DXO does not mention that in its docs. It says it considers the face to make the adjustment. How did you find out about it?

[@PierGiorgioZuccaro]

Utilizzo spesso questa funzione ottima anche in DXO lab 6

[@takebetterphotos8132]

È lo stesso nel Photolab 7

[@robertposener8789]

Spot Weighted also doesn't (but needs to) recognise animal and bird faces.

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Yes another thing DXO should fix. Will need better AI to do correctly.

[@BPetiBP]

Smart lighting is awful compared to capture one. photolab is a really good software, but smart lighting and selective tones are far behind C1 in most cases...

[@takebetterphotos8132]

Capture One's tone adjustments are the best. In my mind, Smart lighting is mostly an automated editing tool which is helpful for batch processing. I mostly compare it to ON1's brilliance AI tool