A library of available DxO Presets
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| | List of DxO Presets | The different types of DxO Presets available and their naming guidelines | | Reference table of names from version 5 | |
List of DxO Presets
The table below lists the presets available in DxO Optics Pro. Each automatic setting is illustrated by paired photographs that demonstrate its effects.
| Name | What it does | Example | |
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DxO default |
Description : | Standard processing with colors as rendered by your camera (factory settings for RAW). Processing includes DxO Lighting and denoising, together with optical corrections if the DxO correction module is present (distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberrations, lens softness, and fine detail enhancement). |   |
| Recommendation : | Appropriate for most of your photos if you are happy with your camera’s default color rendering (which usually delivers rather saturated colors). | ||
| Type : | Global. | ||
| DxO default - Neutral colors (RAW only) |
Description : | Perfomrs the same corrections as the 'DxO default" Preset, but offers more neutral color rendering. |  |
| Recommendation : | Appropriate for most of your photos if you shoot in RAW and prefer more accurate color rendering than provided by your camera’s default settings. | ||
| Type : | Global. | ||
| DxO default - Original (v1) | Description : | Former default Preset (until v6.1.2). Performs the same corrections as "DxO default" Preset, but without fine detail enhancement and without dead pixel correction. | |
| Recommendation : | Appropriate for most of your photos if you are happy with your camera’s default color rendering (which usually delivers rather saturated colors). | ||
| Type : | Global. | ||
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General - |
Description : | A "creative" preset that lets you reproduce the faded colors of an old-style postcard. |   |
| Recommendation : | Suits all photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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General - |
Description : | Offers a black and white rendition that adapts to image content to produce optimal contrast. |   |
| Recommendation : | Suits all photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects only color. | ||
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General - |
Description : | A "creative" preset that lets you invert the colors in a photo to produce a "film negative" look. |   |
| Recommendation : | Suits all photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects only lighting. | ||
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General - |
Description : | Allows you to produce vivid colors and accentuated contrast. | 
Photo: Stephane Laveau
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| Recommendation : | Suitable for landscape, still-life, architectural, and nature photography when you prefer high contrast and saturated colors. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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Landscape - Lowkey |
Description : | Allows you to reduce general exposure level while increasing overall contrast. |   |
| Recommendation : | Suits urban landscapes, industrial buildings, and nature photos with a "tortured" aspect. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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Landscape - Highkey |
Description : | Increases exposure and influences image contrast to obtain a "highkey" effect. |   |
| Recommendation : | - | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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Landscape - |
Description : | Allows you to increase color saturation and contrast. | 
Photo: Jean-marie Sépulchre
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| Recommendation : | Suits landscape or travel photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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Natural colors |
Description : | Allows most accurate matching of a scene's true color for a more natural look. | 
Photo: Philippe Tarbouriech
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| Recommendation : | Suitable for all RAW photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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Realistic color variation 1 |
Description : | Offers natural colors with fairly soft contrast. |    |
| Recommendation : | Suitable for all RAW photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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Realistic color variation 2 |
Description : | Offers natural colors with medium contrast. | |
| Recommendation : | Suitable for all RAW photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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Realistic color variation 3 |
Description : | Offers brighter realistic colors with medium contrast. | |
| Recommendation : | Suitable for all RAW photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
| Highlight recovery - Slight (RAW only) |
Description : | Lets you recover details within burnt-out areas and keep overall contrast well balanced. |   |
| Recommendation : | Suits scenes with a very large dynamic range and burnt-out areas in parts of the image with important detail (cloudy skies, snowy fields, a lacy wedding dress, candles, open fires, etc.). | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
| Highlight recovery - Medium (RAW only) |
Description : | Lets you recover a lot of detail within burnt-out areas, while keeping the overall contrast well balanced. |  |
| Recommendation : | Suits scenes with a very large dynamic range and burnt-out areas in parts of the image with important detail (cloudy skies, snowy fields, a lacy wedding dress, candles, open fires, etc.). | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
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Highlight recovery - |
Description : | Lets you recover all available detail within burnt-out areas and keep overall contrast well balanced. |  |
| Recommendation : | Suits scenes with a very large dynamic range and burnt-out areas in parts of the image with important detail (cloudy skies, snowy fields, a lacy wedding dress, candles, open fires, etc.). | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects color and lighting only. | ||
| High ISO - Noise reduction |
Description : | Allows you to obtain the best trade-off between denoising, detail sharpness, and deep shadows. |   |
| Recommendation : | Suits photos shot in low light or using high speed, or both, e.g. photos taken at night or indoors without flash. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects lighting and detail only. | ||
| Keep fine grain noise (RAW only) | Description : | Allows you to preserve fine grain. | 
Photo: Jean-marie Sépulchre
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| Recommendation : | Suitable for images shot in RAW at high ISO. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects only detail. | ||
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Sharpen fine details |
Description : | Allows you to increase sharpness of all image details. |   |
| Recommendation : | Suits all photos. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects only detail. | ||
| Color anti-aliasing (RAW only) |
Description : | Allows you to eliminate moiré (spurious color fringing or patterning visible in objects with repetitive detail structures). | 
Photo: John Walker
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| Recommendation : | Suits shots of clothing with regular patterns, other objects with very fine, regular structures, and photos of hair, fur, or feathers. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects only detail. | ||
| HDR - Slight |
Description : | Allows you to apply a slight HDR effect to Single Shot JPEG or RAW images, by bringing out some detail in lowlights. | 
Photo: Mateja Smigoc
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| Recommendation : | Suitable for all photos, for a creative effect. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects DxO Lighting only. | ||
| HDR - Artistic (RAW only) |
Description : | Allows you to apply a very strong HDR effect to Single Shot RAW images, by bringing out the maximum detail possible in both high- and low-lights. | 
Photo: Mateja Smigoc
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| Recommendation : | Suitable for all photos, for a creative effect. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects DxO Lighting, Exposure compensation, Tone curve and Vibrancy. | ||
| HDR - Realistic (RAW only) |
Description : | Allows you to apply a realistic HDR effect to Single Shot RAW images, by bringing out details in both high- and low-lights. | 
Photo: Mateja Smigoc
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| Recommendation : | Suitable for all photos, for a creative effect. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects DxO Lighting, Exposure compensation, Tone curve and Vibrancy. | ||
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Group portrait - Restore body proportions |
Description : | Allows you to restore body proportions that show increasing distortion towards the edges of the photo. | 
Photo: Jean Luc Dubin
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| Recommendation : | Suits group photos of several people standing, shot with a wide angle lens. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects only geometry. | ||
| Group portrait - Restore face proportions | Description : | Allows you to restore the proportions of faces that show increasing distortion towards the edges of the photo. | 
Photo: Jean Luc Dubin
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| Recommendation : | Suits group photos (showing many faces) shot with a wide angle lens. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects only geometry. | ||
| Maximize field of view | Description : | Allows you to recover information lost at the edges of images. |   |
| Recommendation : | Suitable for photos showing marked distortion. | ||
| Type : | Partial, affects only geometry. | ||
| No correction | Description : | Disables all corrections (for a RAW file, this preset converts the image using the camera's design settings). | |
| Recommendation : | For images you prefer to correct or enhance manually. | ||
| Type : | Global. | ||
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The different types of DxO Presets
Each DxO Preset describes the effect it will have on an image when processed.
Most DxO Presets can be used with either JPEG or RAW formats.
However, certain DxO Presets affect only RAW images, and these are indicated as “RAW only” in the DxO Preset namespace.
There are two basic categories of DxO Preset, comprehensive and specialized:
- A “comprehensive” preset corrects for all image parameters—that is, if you apply this kind of DxO preset, all previous settings will be ignored.
- A “specialized” preset deals only with specified attributes or parameters. For example, the “General – vivid colors” preset leaves all other settings (optical corrections, denoising, sharpness, etc.) unchanged, and affects only color saturation.
Among the available DxO Presets that come with DxO Optics Pro 6, two are comprehensive (the default DxO Preset and the “no corrections” DxO Preset); the rest are specialized.
Reference table of names from version 5
| Name v6.2 | Name v6 | Name v5 |
| DxO default - Original (v1) | DxO Default | DxO Default Preset |
| DxO default | - | - |
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DxO default - Neutral color (RAW only) |
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| General - Old postcard | General - Old postcard | - |
| General - Black and white | General - Black and white | - |
| General - Negative colors | General - Negative colors | - |
| General - Vivid colors | General - Vivid colors | Vivid |
| Landscape - Lowkey | Landscape - Lowkey | A darker vision |
| Landscape - Highkey | Landscape - Highkey | Highkey |
| Landscape - Postcard | Landscape - Postcard | Postcard |
| Natural colors (RAW only) | Natural colors (RAW only) | RAW Color Neutral |
| Realistic color variation 1 (RAW only) | Realistic color variation 1 (RAW only) | RAW - Realistic Mode High Contrast |
| Realistic color variation 2 (RAW only) | Realistic color variation 2 (RAW only) | RAW - Realistic Tone Curve |
| Realistic color variation 3 (RAW only) | Realistic color variation 3 (RAW only) | RAW - Realistic Tone Curve Vivid |
| Highlight recovery - Slight (RAW only) | Highlight recovery - Slight (RAW only) | RAW Highlight Recovery - Slight |
| Highlight recovery - Medium (RAW only) | Highlight recovery - Medium (RAW only) | RAW Highlight Recovery - Medium |
| Highlight recovery - Strong (RAW only) | Highlight recovery - Strong (RAW only) | RAW Highlight Recovery - Strong |
| High ISO - Noise reduction | High ISO - Noise reduction | RAW High ISO - High ISO |
| Keep fine grain noise (RAW only) | Keep fine grain noise (RAW only) | - |
| Sharpen fine detail | Sharpen fine detail | - |
| Color anti-aliasing (RAW only) | Anti color alias (RAW only) | RAW Anti color alias |
| HDR effect | HDR effect | - |
| Group portrait - Restore body proportions | Group portrait - Restore body proportions | - |
| Group portrait - Restore face proportions | Group portrait - Restore face proportions | - |
| Maximize field of view | Maximize field of view | - |
| No correction | No correction | No correction |
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