DxO PhotoLab Complete · Stream Deck plugin

What it does

111 PhotoLab shortcuts across 13 categories, from PhotoLab 10.1's shortcut table, from Cull and Color Labels to Mask Tools and ReShape Nudge, each on a key with its own voxel-sticker art. Hand (Hold) and Compare (Hold) stay down while you hold the key, Capture key takes any shortcut you have remapped inside PhotoLab, and the keys work inside Multi Actions.
Eight keys read PhotoLab's window and light only while PhotoLab shows that state, even one switched on from PhotoLab's own toolbar: Highlight Clip, Shadow Clip, Monitor Gamut, Output Gamut, Single View, Full Screen, Compare (Hold) and Panels. If the state cannot be read, the key stays dark rather than guess.
Fourteen dials. Exposure, WB Temperature (RAW and JPEG), WB Tint (RAW only), Contrast, Highlights and Rotation (PhotoLab's Horizon slider) turn PhotoLab's own sliders on the selected image in Customize and print the value on the touch strip, and in the Local Adjustments view they move the selected mask's own sliders; press and turn for fine steps, and every change is one undo step. The four HSL dials, Saturation, Vibrancy, Luminance and Uniformity, act on the channel selected in PhotoLab's HSL palette, and on Windows the face names the channel. Zoom presses to fit and shows PhotoLab's zoom percentage, History Scrub undoes and redoes with your History step on the strip, Image Navigate steps through your pictures, and the Omni dial holds up to three sliders you pick from 37, Channel Mixer, Chromatic Aberration, Unsharp Mask and Watermark among them, a press moving to the next. The Stream Deck + seats four, the Stream Deck + XL six, and the rest wait in the action list.
A Color page on the Stream Deck + XL. A key on Home opens it: nine keys, Master, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple and Magenta, select the HSL channel and light when selected, the four HSL dials sit under them with the Omni dial and Image Navigate, and 26 editing keys fill the rest, undo, redo, next image, zoom, copy and paste edits, export and more. Home returns. The channel keys are Windows only and say so on a Mac.
The film strip on the touch screens. With Image Navigate on a Stream Deck + or a Stream Deck + XL, the dial screens show your open project or folder with the current picture ringed: turn to move along it, tap a picture to jump straight to it, press to fold it onto its own screen while the other dials show their values.
A T9 number pad keyboard that types values and names into PhotoLab's fields: 123, abc and ABC, multi-tap like a phone. On Windows it is laid out for the US keyboard; on a Mac it types the characters themselves on any layout. It takes the left five columns of every page on the Stream Deck + XL and the 32-key Stream Deck XL, and has a page of its own on the 15-key Stream Deck.
Six bundled profiles with Easy Link on the first key of each: hold it about a second with PhotoLab in front, and the profile comes up whenever PhotoLab takes focus and hands your previous one back when you leave. The 15-key Stream Deck, the 32-key Stream Deck XL and the Stream Deck + XL carry the category hub and all 111 commands, the Stream Deck + XL with its six dials and the Color page, the Stream Deck + four dials and seven keys, and the Stream Deck Mini and the Stream Deck Neo eight and fifteen starter commands. 33 key sounds ship in the box, silent until you pick one, and our free Sound Sampler adds your own recordings.

What you need

DxO PhotoLab 10.1 or 10.2 on Windows 10 or newer or on macOS 15 or newer (PhotoLab for macOS itself needs macOS 15.7), in any of PhotoLab's interface languages, and Stream Deck software 7.1 or newer. Tested against PhotoLab 10.1 and 10.2 Elite on Windows and PhotoLab 10.1 and 10.2 on an Apple silicon Mac. Dials and the touch strip need a Stream Deck + or a Stream Deck + XL; every key works on any Stream Deck model.

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Good to know

Tested against DxO PhotoLab 10.1.0 build 42 and 10.2.0.496, Elite edition, on Windows 10 or newer, and PhotoLab 10.1.0 and 10.2.0 for macOS on an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 27. The plugin's macOS floor is 15; PhotoLab 10.1 for macOS itself needs 15.7. PhotoLab in any of its interface languages: English and German verified live on both platforms; French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese covered on Windows from PhotoLab's own resource files and not yet tested live on either platform. Requires the Stream Deck app 7.1 or newer on both platforms. Profiles are bundled for six decks: the 15-key Stream Deck, the Stream Deck +, the Stream Deck + XL, the 32-key Stream Deck XL, the Stream Deck Mini and the Stream Deck Neo. Dials and the touch strip need a Stream Deck + or a Stream Deck + XL; keys work on every model.
On a Mac, allow two permissions, both for the Stream Deck app. Give it Accessibility, and let it control System Events when the first key asks. Missed one? In System Settings, Privacy & Security, open Accessibility or Automation, turn Stream Deck on, then restart the Stream Deck app. Full Disk Access is not needed. The first start needs the network once, for the Stream Deck app's own Node 24 runtime.
Keys send PhotoLab's own shortcuts to the window in front, so keep PhotoLab there when you press. Changed a shortcut inside PhotoLab? Click Capture key in the key's property inspector and press it once. The lit keys, the slider dials, Panels and the film strip find PhotoLab's controls by their position and identifiers rather than their names, so PhotoLab can run in English, German, French, Japanese or Simplified Chinese. English and German are verified live on Windows and macOS; the other three are covered from PhotoLab's own resource files on Windows and not yet tested live. On Windows the number pad is laid out for the US keyboard; on a Mac it types the characters themselves on any layout. If a key, a dial or the pad does something else in your PhotoLab language or on your keyboard layout, email and it gets fixed.
The slider dials act on the selected image in Customize, and the strip shows dashes when a slider is not available. A press resets Exposure, WB Tint, Contrast, Highlights and Rotation to 0. The film strip needs PhotoLab's film strip sorted by name: with any other sort, or before PhotoLab has written a newly viewed picture to its library, the screens show the dial faces rather than risk showing the wrong pictures.
ReShape, Miniature and the eight ReShape Nudge keys need DxO ViewPoint, and so do Force Parallel, Rectangle and 8 Points on PhotoLab Essential. The nine Mask Tools keys (AI Mask, Control Point, Control Line, Graduated Filter, Luminosity Mask, Hue Mask, Depth Mask, Control Brush and Brush) press the tool's own button in PhotoLab's Local Adjustments palette on both platforms, opening the view first when it is closed, so they work from anywhere in Customize, where PhotoLab's own chords do nothing until a mask exists; Auto Brush stays a chord. On Windows a press on the PhotoLibrary tab, or with the right dock hidden, is refused rather than guessed, and with a second program reading PhotoLab's window at the same time, such as the PhotoLab Edge Companion, the view read can run long and a mask key falls back to PhotoLab's chord until the view closes. On a Mac, 46 of the 111 commands send PhotoLab for macOS's own chord. Refresh, Maximize, Miniature, Search, New Group, Append Keywords and Rename have no macOS equivalent and do nothing there, the ReShape Nudge keys are untested on a Mac, and Compare (Hold) lights while you hold it. The HSL dials turn on a Mac, but the face says only Master or a color, because the channel selector cannot be read there; the Color page's channel keys are Windows only and say so on a Mac.
With PhotoLab in front and no text field selected, the number pad holds back letters, Space and Delete, which PhotoLab would read as its own tools, and the key alerts instead; on a Mac it holds back digits and Enter too. Local only: no account, no telemetry, and nothing leaves your machine. The film strip reads PhotoLab's own library and preview cache on this computer, read-only.

True of every plugin we make

Every key carries the app's own shortcut for that command, and every key is remappable. Type your combination into the key's property inspector (its settings panel in the Stream Deck app) or click Capture and press it once. Where an app leaves a command unbound, the key still reaches it by the route that app exposes.
Keystrokes go to the front window and nothing steals focus, so keep the target app in front when you press.
Every command has its own drawn key art, so the deck reads at a glance instead of listing shortcuts.

Read the full quick fixes, or see this plugin on the support hub.

Still stuck? Email tony@pathfinderprototyping.com with the plugin name, your Stream Deck software version, and what you pressed versus what happened. A human answers.