The DxO Standard preset corrects tone (exposure and dynamic optimization), colors (application by default of the camera body rendering and protection of saturated colors), noise, and optical flaws (distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberrations, lens softness). This process is entirely automatic and happens as soon as the images are displayed in the Image Browser — without any intervention on your part!

Of course, DxO Optics Pro 9, in addition to offering you a new visual interface that shows you all of the presets that are integrated into the software, also lets you create your own custom presets, and you can use whatever preset you would like as the default instead of the DxO Standard preset. There are two kinds of presets: full presets, which provide you with a full set of corrections with which to work, and partial presets, which allow you to correct a single aspect or just a few aspects of an image, without affecting the rest of the image rendering.

In this tutorial, we will first discuss the new visual presets interface and how to apply presets, and then we will see how to create a custom preset. Finally, the “going further” section will present you with a few additional tips about replacing the DxO Standard default preset by a more neutral preset, or by a custom preset.