ColorWheel: where power meets simplicity
Want better color in your images? Then ColorWheel is the tool for you. Sophisticated and dynamic, while beautifully simple to use, it provides maximum control and brilliant results.
- Camera: Canon EOS 6D
- Parameters: ISO 800 - f/5.6 - 130mm
- DxO PhotoLab 6
Because ColorWheel is part of DxO PhotoLab 6’s seamless RAW workflow, any changes you make to hue, tone, and saturation are of a much higher quality than when editing lossy JPEGs. Put simply, there’s more data in a RAW file to work with, so changes can be made with greater strength and fewer artifacts such as fringing or loss of detail.
- Camera: Sony ILCE - 7RM3
- Lens: 24 - 70mm f/2.8
- Parameters: ISO 200 - 30 - f/18 - 51mm
- DxO PhotoLab 6
ColorWheel shows exactly which hues are selected and how they’re being edited, too.
Easy to see means easy to use
One of ColorWheel’s greatest assets is how visual a tool it is. Unlike other RAW processing software, the colors you choose are clearly highlighted on the wheel, so
Choose colors with a single click
To select a color range,
You can then
- Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Lens: 100mm f/2.8
- Parameters: ISO 200 -1/200 -f/14 -100mm
- DxOPhotoLab6
Quick, accurate refinements
If the affected area isn’t quite working, each of the
This kingfisher looks a little different as some of its aqua tones have been shifted towards green.
- Camera: Olympus E-M1X
- Lens: 300mm f/4
- Parameters: ISO 2500 - 1/1000 - f/4 - 601mm
- DxO PhotoLab 6
To capture more of the blues, adjustments are made by
How to use the Saturation, Luminance, and Uniformity controls
As well as shifting the hues of selected colors, you can change their
Remember, when the white / global channel is selected, you’ll only have access to the Saturation slider.
The third slider — Uniformity — is something different.
Slide it to the right to increase the Uniformity and the selected colors will have their hues pushed closer together, making adjustments more uniform. Slide it to the left to decrease Uniformity and the selected hues are pushed further apart, so adjustments are more varied.
Sliding the Uniformity slider to the left will
This frog has more shades of green — bringing out more of the yellow tones present — when the uniformity of the green channel is reduced to -70:
- Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkIII
- Lens: 60mm f/2.8
- Parameters: ISO 100 - 1/125 - f/10 - 60mm
- DxO PhotoLab 6
However, those greens look homogeneous when the uniformity is increased to +70.
Increasing uniformity is
Control every color
DxO PhotoLab’s ColorWheel is both
DxO PhotoLab 6
The most advanced, end-to-end, RAW photo editing software