

The original noise reduction algorithm PRIME was capable of reducing noise without affecting detail or creating blobs of even coloured areas.
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DxO Optics Pro 11 will automatically adjust the photo based on these zones towards a more balanced lighting scheme - as if you’d be using speedlights to create more even lighting. If you move the mouse over any of these, the sides will become dotted lines with handles in each corner, as well as a removal icon in the upper right corner.Īlthough it’s particularly good at spot lighting human faces, you can also create Spot Weighted focus areas in photos that contain regions you find too dark or too bright. Each detected face is surrounded by a rectangle. The palette indicates the number of areas detected. When you click on the Spot Weighted button, DxO Smart Lighting will apply a correction in Slight mode by default, taking into account the faces present in the image. It is particularly useful with backlit faces and faces that are too bright or too dark against the background, whether dark or bright (e.g., bright on a dark background, bright on a bright background, etc.). I found it to work well with portraits, but not at all with a landscape photo containing a subject that is clearly visible albeit in the distance. The new feature only works when faces take up enough space in the image.

The default Spot Weighted setting detects faces in a photo in order to optimise the exposure without radically changing the rest of the image. It’s said to deliver the same results as in-camera spot metering with the added benefit of post-capture fine-tuning capabilities.

In the Smart Lighting module, DxO Optics Pro 11 introduces a new feature called Spot Weighted mode. However, DxO Optics Pro still lacks support for IPTC metadata and a full-scale management module. There’s now also an automatic red-eye correction. DxO Optics Pro 11 incorporates three major improvements: Spot Weighted Smart Lighting, PRIME 2016 noise reduction and full-screen mode.
