Top Tips for Better Colour in DxO PhotoLab

[@Needacreate]

I rarely return from one of your videos without feeling I've learned something new and important to my photo editing. You're a born instructor, Robin.

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. Tha'ts great feedback to receive.

[@NikitaArt]

Thank you men, you just saved me the day!

[@RobinWhalley]

Thanks. I'm glad you found it helpful.

[@chrisbartlett8146]

Thanks for this explantation. I often process a file I have done in Lightroom to Photolab because of the colours but have been having a major problem with printing. I did not know about the highlight feature in the soft proofing and it means I might have to change the paper I have been using for some photos. After checking using your method the photos look quite different and flatter but with different paper profiles it is a lot better.

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad it was helpful. I have it on my list to do a proper Soft Proofing video with PhotoLab. Hopefully that will explain everything clearly.

[@christiangeyer962]

This is a really good and very informative video that really helps me a lot. If you don't understand what's going on, these settings remain an eternal blind flight. Thank you!

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad it helped. The settings aren't the easiest to understand but they do make a difference.

[@paulreid7761]

Absolutely fantastic. Finally get it. Thank you

[@RobinWhalley]

This is the best comment that I could wish for. I love it when I can help someone understand something.

[@RossAnderson-v8u]

Thank you Robin, it's really helpful material and one I need to watch several times.

[@RobinWhalley]

You're welcome. I try to pack a lot into a video so I canunderstand needing to watch it a couple of times.

[@SandboChang]

Wow I should have watched this one year ago, this is concise and very helpful.

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad it was helpful, although I only made it recently. It took a while to work out what was happening.

[@octaviogarcia9616]

Great video, thank you , Robin.

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. I'm glad that you think so.

[@lizzietheoldbiddy262]

I'll need to watch this many times to get my head around it. At the moment, it's up there with alchemy on the mystery scale - but thank you

[@RobinWhalley]

It's worth making the effort. I'm sure it will all just click into place for you with a bit of experimenting.

[@kevinl1492]

Looks like a really good upgrade. Very helpful video. I really need to get up to speed with all the controls and functions in PL. This improvement in ease-of-use will help. BTW, I heard you mention the GX1. Is that the original Lumix body that ultimately became the GX9? Combining new software and obsolete cameras could be an interesting video subject!

[@RobinWhalley]

I don't know about the heritage of the GX9. What I can say is that the GX1 was the successor to the GF1 which was an early micro 43 camera. I take your point about using new software with old cameras but I don't know how I could show it properly or turn it into a video.

[@alangauld6079]

Really good video. I confess the wide gammut thing in PL6 is something I've been meaning to investigate but being lazy I've just stuck with legacy settings and I've never turned the colour rendering control on at all. Now I know what they do I'll have a closer look. Also the rendering and softproof warnings were unknown features. I've seen the icons but had no idea what they were for. Your 8 minute video has probably saved me an hours worth of searching! Although, softproofing is less of interest because I normally finish up in Affinity Photo and use its softproofing and print settings.

[@RobinWhalley]

I'm glad you liked the video and found something of interest in it. At first, the options will probably make your head hurt (they did me) but it's worth making the effort to understand what's going on. Good luck.

[@grat2010]

Thank you Robin!

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad you liked it. Thank you.

[@gossedejong9248]

Sir, you are a genius! Thank you!

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you very much.

[@orvozon2914]

Thank you Robin.

[@RobinWhalley]

You're welcome. Thank you.

[@Drt-91]

I realise this is an old video, but could I ask a question? When soft proofing, should you set it to the specific icc profile that you will be printing with? I have a custom-made icc profile for the specific papers i use. Shall I select that option in the box when soft proofing? Sorry, I'm new to photo editing

[@RobinWhalley]

Yes, Soft Proof the image using the profile you will be printing with. If you are using DxO PhotoLab, this video should help. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a57CqmqKfs6Hptk

[@Drt-91]

@@RobinWhalley thanks Robin 👍

[@chrislabuda4506]

Concise and informative, thanks Robin!

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad it was helpful. Thank you

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Where is the Channel Mixer coming from - and it doesn't look like a channel mixer, more like a color painter?

[@RobinWhalley]

I'm sorry, I don't know what you are referring to. I can't recall using a Channel Mixer in this or mentioning it. Do you have a time reference or in the vidio something you can point me to?

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Sorry, at 4:35 - 'Channel Mixer'. It's not visible in my Elite! version for which I paid Elite price ;O)

[@RobinWhalley]

@@Eigil_Skovgaard I think that you are referring to the HSL tool which looks like a colour wheel with some colour sliders below it. If that's correct, it was released in PhotoLab version 3.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Those color sliders below the HSL wheel is a separate tool with its own on/off button (off), and it is obviously called 'CHANNEL MIXER', therefore my question to you is - Why do you think this Channel Mixer tool is missing in my new ELITE version 6.8.0 of DxO PhotoLab? Right below the HSL wheel in my version comes another tool, Soft Proofing.

[@RobinWhalley]

@@Eigil_Skovgaard Thank you. I understand what you are looking at now. I think this is one of the tools that was addd in FilmPack 5. It's like a lot of the FilmPack and ViewPoint tools. They appear in PhotoLab when installed because of the integration. It's hard for me to be certain because I deal with so many applications. You migfht be better asking on the DxO Forum.

[@Gandalfsson1]

Thanks, but as other mentioned you have to see it several times. There is A LOT to take in and combine. It would be fantastic if you made a new video - step by step - and more slow.

[@RobinWhalley]

There's a link in the KZbin information to a step by step article.