I don’t mind having white balance not appear at the top of the first palette (it's in “Colour”) because I find that with Olympus files I like the “As Shot” white balance 98% of the time (I can’t say the same for the CR2 files from my Canon G7X, but fortunately I don’t take many photos with it). I turned off the "Essential Tools" and “Light” palettes, and created a new “Exposure” palette so that my palettes are now: The default “Essential Tools” palette is crammed full of adjustments that are also contained in other palettes, which I found confusing and it slowed me down.
I'm reviving this thread to add a few tips that I've learned in using PhotoLab on several dozen images over the past few weeks: So instead I am exporting images back to Lightroom as 16-bit TIFFs, where I then adjust the highlights further and set the white point, plus make any additional adjustments (like split toning, which is grayed out in DxO). I can recover the highlights reasonably well, but I always end up with a big gap at the right edge of the histogram, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to do what in Lightroom is setting the white point. One thing that is frustrating me is the highlight recovery and white point. Interestingly, I found that Prime noise reduction set at 5 really cleaned up the shadow areas of an image shot at ISO 320, so I have been using Prime on low-ISO images, too. Only with a dark image taken at ISO 3200 did I need to set it at 40. Prime noise reduction defaults to a setting of 40, which I have also found is too high for most images.While I am amazed at how much sharper my 17mm f1.8 lens is when processed in DxO, the default setting for lens sharpness sometimes oversharpens the image unpleasantly and I have to reduce the setting to as low as -1.00.I plan to keep playing with DxO with an eye to eventually buying it, and would appreciate any tips from experienced users to get the most out of PhotoLab. The CA and distortion corrections are also effective, and I like that I can recover extra bits of the image around the edges. As claimed, the Prime noise reduction works well and produces cleaner images without losing detail. I've tried it on a few images from my Pen-F + 17mm f1.8 and my E-PL7 + 12-40mm Pro.
I have been playing with a trial of DxO PhotoLab (ver 1.1.2) for several hours today, and so far I am quite impressed.
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