The moire removal slider in PhotoLab/Optics Pro is very destructive of small colourful elements (esp. red and blue things). It would be beneficial to be able to apply moire correction locally with a brush or a control point. The same goes for Chromatic Aberrations and Purple Fringing corrections.
Example scenarios where this is a problem: portraiture. Moire is a fairly frequent phenomenon with various types of clothing with some kind of small patterns like stripes, or high frequency texture. If one applies a global correction, it invariably destroys the colour of the lips or eyes if they are relatively small in the frame.
Another suggestion – the current moire removal takes care only of the chrominance aspect of moire, but it leaves the luminance patterns in place. It would be great if moire removal in PhotoLab could take care of both chroma and luma aspects of moire.
Please vote to support the suggestion of moire removal and defringing as a local adjustment.
So maybe is it interesting to start up this thread again.
One thing i always find “irritating” is the fact that CA isn’t corrected in full view you have to zoom in 75% before its gone. (I would like a corrected CA at full view.)
This way you see the actual effect on the hole image before you export.
It’s a detailed and actionable feature request though and should certainly be added to the list of pixel editor type improvements which could be made in the future if more pixel editor type functionality is added.
In Photolab 1 the original implementation of Local adjustments included 10 adjustment sliders in one row. Sometime later in 2018 they updated it to 15 sliders in 3 rows, its current state. They added sliders for highlights, midtones, shadows, blacks, and hue if I recall correctly. Based on your join date here later in the year, perhaps you weren’t aware of that upgrade. It was a major and welcome enhancement in my opinion. As long as it works and doesn’t significantly affect performance I have absolutely no problem with DXO expanding the feature set of Local Adjustments.
I’m very keen on local adjustments continuing to get love and attention just not at the expense of performance or coverage for new camera bodies and lenses. I’d also like any work on the local adjustments not to be just a “feature add” but to work really well and not negatively affect performance. As you know well, adding features just to hit as many checkboxes as possible can cripple an app.
Quote from someone on DPR:
Don’t use Chromatic aberration “Size” higher than 4 unless you really, really have to, because anything higher than 4 starts to mess up your colors. Unlike other parameters, by default it’s 4 and not automatic, for a very good reason. Same with the purple fringing checkbox, don’t enable it unless you really have to.
