Am still learning the basic and trying to find out if in PI you can somehow select a DSO, exclude it and then operate on the gradients.
What Photoshop can do for me is to select the galaxy, then deselect it to get the gradient outside the galaxy, then I can fix the gradient with Gradient Exterminator without touching the galaxy. If I could do that in PI, I would be set to use DBE in PI. As is I find DBE screws up the edges of the DSO.