![]() The software remains usable during indexing.You can optionally index your image folder(s) or let DXO do it as you visit them.Image selection uses standard Windows operations: click, ctrl-click, shift-click.It displays the thumbnails quickly, no fussing about with imports.Thumbnail size – you just drag the slider.Things I like about the interface include: The Photo Library is where you perform DAM operations and view your images. The interface has two main sections: Photo Library and Customize. This means it maintains a catalogue of your images and lets you search for them, rate them and (now) tag them with keywords. It now features DAM (Digital Asset Management). But DXO can do it for virtually every camera and every lens.ĭXO is more than a RAW converter. Maybe Canon’s DPP software can do this using its Smart Lens analysis. DXO knows exactly how much softer your images are in the corners and on the edges and it selectively sharpens each image to correct this. No, I mean lens sharpness. DXO have analysed your lens (assuming they support your camera and lens. If needs be, you can fix those manually in an image editor. I’m not just talking about distortion, vignetting or chromatic aberrations. And, most importantly, it knows how to fix them. And it knows how they work with each other. The DXO AdvantageĭXO has a unique selling point. It’ll be interesting to see where it sits when it comes out. Skylum’s Luminar is another excellent alternative and V4’s release isn’t far away. Only DXO matches it in terms of RAW conversion. It’s incredible that it still competes (and outperforms) most of the alternatives. The developers tell me they are working on it and I believe them. But it is hasn’t had a major update in, like, forever. Photo Ninja, by Picturecode is, in my opinion, DXO’s most serious rival. So little has changed with this new release.The competition hasn’t caught up with DXO, no matter how hard they try.I knew that I would not change my opinion on reviewing the new release. I remain of the opinion that it is the best, or very close to the best, RAW photo converter that money can buy. I’ve been using DXO Photo Lab since its release and I’ve used DXO in its previous incarnations for well over a decade. It won’t install on Windows 7… Introduction to DXO Photo Lab 3 NOTE for Windows 7 usersĭXO Photo Lab needs Windows 8.1 or 10 64 bit. It costs £115 for new users and is £69 for upgraders.DXO did not pay me to write this review, neither did they supply me with the software. DxO PureRAW 2 price and availabilityĭxO PureRAW 2 is available to down load immediately from DxO. PureRAW 2 can also apply DxO’s lens corrections, dealing with distortion, vignetting and chromatic aberrations while improving overall sharpness.ĭxO has also added modules for a host of other camera and lens combinations bring the total number of modules to over 70,000. PureRAW 2 uses DxO’s DeepPRIME technology to clean images, removing noise and artefacts and restoring colour to high ISO images. ![]() Fujifilm X-Trans camera supportīecause of their unique sensor design, Fujifilm cameras were not compatible with the first incarnation of DxO PureRAW, but now DxO PureRAW 2 enables raw files from X-Trans CMOS sensors to be processed. In addition, HiDPI displays are supported. It’s just a case of right-clicking on the files and choosing the option from the menu to get processing.Īccording to DxO, PureRAW 2 has been given some significant speed improvements so it is 1.5x faster on recent Windows computers and 4x faster on Apple Silicon machines. The software then creates Linear DNG files in the same folder with no need to work outside of Lightroom.Īlternatively, DxO PureRAW 2 can be used directly within Windows File Explorer and macOS Finder. This means that in Lightroom Classic, users just need to right-click on one or more raw files and select ‘Export’ followed by ‘Process with DxO PureRAW 2’. DxO has introduced an update to its excellent noise reduction software, DxO PureRAW 2, with the ability to work within Lightroom as a plug-in, and adding speed enhancements and compatibility with Fujifilm X-Trans CMOS sensors.
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