![]() ![]() ![]() One of DxO’s unique features is its Camera PLUS Lens profiles. Luminar 4 takes, on my gaming PC, 6 seconds or more to switch from browse mode to edit mode.ĭxO has a far more industrial feel to it than Luminar – look at their respective interfaces below.ĭxO responds quickly when you change a setting, and many of its presets are right for most images. Switching to Customise mode, to edit an image, is fast. You can use it for basic image management, but it is not a full-blown Digital Asset Management tool (what is?) and it’s not my tool of choice for this. Photo Lab 4 features a decent image browser. I can’t remember the last time I had to shut it down and restart it. Luminar is great at what it does, but DxO is so much faster and stable in use. I wish I could say the same for one of its major rivals, Luminar 4. It’s a nice to have feature but I usually do this when exporting images for Web use from Exposure X6.ĭxO Photo Lab is a mature product, and it shows. You can also watermark your images in DxO. I use Advanced, adjust it to suit my needs, and then save it as my workspace. It comes with three built in ‘Workspaces’ (layouts) – Standard, Advanced and What’s New? The What’s New? Workspace is great for experienced users wanting to get to grips with the additional features. Other EnhancementsĭxO have tweaked the UI to make it easier to use. You copy the settings from one image and then paste some of them to other images. Most RAW converters, including DxO, can create presets from the current development settings. This isn’t unique to DxO (Photo Ninja has it too) but it is a highly desirable feature. The history panel doesn’t let you reorder the adjustments, so if you want to undo a change other than the last one, go back to the adjustment panels. Using this history panel is far better than using CTRL + Z and hoping to step back to the ‘right’ place. Second, you can intelligently undo the adjustments. First, it lets you see at a glance which adjustments you’ve applied to an image. I used Topaz tools as part of my post processing workflow, so its ability to outperform DxO in this area was amazing.īut DxO are right back in the game with their new DeepPrime Noise Reduction, as my tests below show. Noise reduction is best done early on – during the RAW development stage, where the RAW converter has the enormous advantage of dealing with the RAW image data, unaffected by editing. But the others caught up and then, amazingly, Topaz Labs AI Clear and DeNoise AI bettered it. It produced better, sharper and cleaner images than anything else. When I first used DxO, many years ago, its noise reduction and core RAW development engine were class leading. Not all of these extra features are show-stoppers or even unique, but some really caught my eye: DxO DeepPrime Instant watermarking: to add watermarks directly to your photos.Selective Copy Paste: to synchronise the settings of several similar images by applying individual edits from one photo to another.DxO Advanced History: a new and exclusive editing history tool to scroll back to different moments in the editing process.DxO Smart Workspace: a new dynamic interface with a simpler workflow with batch renaming. ![]() DxO DeepPrime: a revolutionary demosaicing and denoising technology based on artificial intelligence and trained with deep learning.This feature helps you restore a natural look to your landscape, architectural, and urban photos.DxO kindly provided me with a pre-release of Photo Lab V4 and this time I am much more impressed. Converging vertical and horizontal lines once again become parallel, unnatural-looking façades regain their normal appearance. Recreate the original shapes of buildings. DxO ViewPoint was a great leap forward for me in my photo process, because now I can shoot with wide-angle lenses without any major constraints. You can also use DxO ViewPoint’s advanced tools to refine the corrections. Simply mark the lines that you want to correct, and DxO ViewPoint fixes them automatically. This feature restores the natural looks of your landscape, architectural, and urban photos. Vertical and horizontal lines are once again parallel, and unnatural-looking building façades regain their normal appearance. DxO ViewPoint easily restores the natural shapes of the subjects located at the edges of your images and fixes skewed perspectives so that your photos regain their proper look.Īs both a standalone application and as a plugin, DxO ViewPoint offers simple visual tools for spectacular geometrical corrections along with advanced controls for unrivaled precision. Bring back the original forms of buildings.
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