Here’s a link to the product page.As an Adobe Lightroom user, you have access to all kinds of great editing tools. I do recommend this product, as well as other offerings from the DXO family. I would never recommend a product that I do not own and have paid for myself. That’s about two years of the Photographer’s Bundle and upgrades for a fee show up about that often, so if you like it and use it, your cost over time does go down. Cost to purchase outright is $219 CAD and it is sold in different currencies. So you can try it with no risk and if you don’t like it, you stop there. The company offers a try before you buy option that is time based not feature bereft. There are a ton of additional features as one would expect. The original file is not changed, but your edited version is returned to Lightroom as JPEG, TIFF or linear DNG allowing the Lightroom Classic user to take advantage to DXO’s RAW processing.
When you send to DXO Photolab from Lightroom it sends the actual RAW file. Lightroom Classic Integration - If you love your Adobe Photographer’s Bundle, DXO Photolab has direct integration to Lightroom Classic. It does however let you store your images how you want to store them and its Library function keeps track of where they are and allows comprehensive searching and markup of image information. Image Management - DXO Photolab is NOT a digital asset manager. Smart lighting does this, only quite a bit more simply Smart Lighting - One of Photoshop’s great tools is the ability to relight. Repair - DXO Photolab has Photoshop like repair and clone tools, with more control than those in Lightroom and effectiveness like Photoshop DXO Photolab has one of the finest RAW processors in the market and I think it often does a better job than Adobe products DXO even makes a dedicated RAW processor. RAW Processing - every editor has its own RAW processor. U-Point - This is the selection based editing that first came out with the original Nik Collection but now you can use U-Point for local edits to complement the regular global edits. When you think that existing lens profiles are great, move up to this product and see the difference True, not every combination on earth is covered, but I have not had one missed yet across Canon and Nikon or even Fujifilm. This means a specific profile for each lens and camera body together. Optics - DXO is still the only company that matches lens profiles to sensors. Truly I have never found anything as good There are unique functions in DXO Photolab that make it, in my opinion, a better one time purchase than many of the alternatives.Ĭlearview - Is the best tool that I have ever used to remove haze and to improve images shot through glass. DXO is the same company that offers the popular plugin suite called the Nik Collection and the two are well integrated if you are so inclined.
It’s not a subscription, it is a perpetual license product so you pay for it once and use it for as long as you wish, upgrading to the next release only if it makes sense to you.ĭXO is quite diligent about updates and you will receive them reasonably frequently but not so often as to have them become a burden. If you can use the Lightroom style of editing you can use DXO Photolab. It is however a massively powerful editor and some features such as Clearview have no alternative in other products. The release version at time of writing is version 5.
I think that there is and it’s called DXO Photolab. So if you don’t use Lightroom’s catalog and you don’t use Photoshop’s advanced functions, is there another option? Moreover, many customers of the Adobe Photographer’s bundle which is about $17 per month CAD rarely if ever go into Photoshop. Lightroom has an awesome catalog system for managing your digital photographic assets, but there remain a lot of folks who don’t use the catalog for their own reasons and since the catalog is easily half the value proposition of Lightroom perhaps an alternative might make sense.