Bright areas often blow out during shooting or heavy editing. DxO PhotoLab provides powerful tools to recover highlights, protect bright tones and maintain natural contrast.
Digital sensors capture limited information in bright areas. When exposure exceeds that limit, detail is lost. DxO can often recover this data if processing is handled correctly.
DxO’s Smart Lighting and Selective Tone tools are designed to preserve bright regions while maintaining realistic tones and contrast.
Use Selective Tone → Highlights to pull back clipped areas.
This intelligently balances bright and dark areas without flattening the image.
Bring structure back into recovered highlight regions.
Use Control Points to recover highlights only where needed.
Natural, restored highlights with better detail retention and cleaner transitions.
