


Important: Deleting the history does not delete or reset your corrections and settings! A dialog box will warn you that the operation is irreversible and, after clicking OK, the contents of the palette will be cleared, only one step (“Clear History”) is displayed. At the very bottom of the History palette, click on Clear History. However, you can erase the whole history. In this case, this action will appear at the top of the history. If you want to take back a correction, simply act on the tool concerned, by changing its setting or value. You can’t erase just one or more steps in the history, simply because doing so doesn’t make sense, as corrections are usually made relative to each other (for example, you do the white balance before correcting colors, and erasing the white balance step would not make sense). Click on a newer or older step, go back in time through the various stages of tool use, and see how the image looks in real time in the Viewer. To see the state of an image at a particular stage of correction, scroll through the Advanced History palette and click on a step: the image returns to the precise state it was in at that stage of correction, and the sub-palettes and tools concerned show the settings and values used at that time. Using the History palette Going back in the history and comparing By default, the number of entries is set to 100, and the available values range from 10 to Unlimited. However, on a Mac, you can limit the number of steps in Preferences > Advanced tab > History states section. The history recorded in the DxO PhotoLab database represents a negligible amount of information in terms of impact on the program’s reactivity. The settings of a Custom Presets, grouped and presented in a list (click the step arrow to reveal the settings).Name and (ON or OFF) status of the sub-palette used.The default preset that was applied when you opened the image in PhotoLab.The DxO Advanced History palette records the following information, which is retained when you exit the program (Mac only): Performing before/after comparisons at all stages of correction, for example, to find the most appropriate settings for a particular tool or combination of tools.Enabling comparison between one image to another by comparing histories.Listing all corrections of all images for reference.Useĭepending on the user, the history has a number of uses: All this information is stored in real time in the DxO PhotoLab database, and requires no intervention on your part. Located in the left pane of the Customize tab, the Advanced History palette displays all the steps in the work and corrections made to an image, including the date it was opened in the program and the application of initial automatic corrections (Standard DxO Presets), in ascending chronological order (most recent step at the top). Light | Dark DxO Advanced History History purpose and function
