And, as the product manager and press officer said in their presentation, that was exactly what DxO had in mind when it released this new app. The conclusion is that PureRAW allows you to keep on using whichever image editor you may already have that supports linear DNGs, and enjoy a better starting file to edit. That means you can be doing other things while the app goes through your entire batch whereas cleaning up in any other image editor will take much longer to tweak the image to (almost) the same level of perfection. Very important from a productivity point of view is that processing with PureRAW involves one click. Instantly correct defects in your images with the software’s powerful optical correction, lighting and exposure optimization.
The final result still couldn’t stand up to the quality I got from DxO’s PureRAW. Introduction and featuresDXO has a background in creating software for correcting optical and digital imperfections in images. Serious photographers take note: DxO PhotoLab 4 is designed for you.
After processing with PureRAW, I went back to my file that I originally processed in Capture One Pro and tried to fine-tune it further to compare the files. Processing the four, 12-megapixel test files did take some 15 minutes of processing time from start to finish. Its neural-network AI actually restored lost detail, sharpened the image with no artifacts at all, and removed a slight distortion. It also offers a nondestructive workflow for Adobe Lightroom Classic users. The newest Nik Collection version 3 from DxO works with Affinity Photo, has a newly designed Nik Selective Tool, and new Quick Edit tools. The results were quite good but, much to my surprise, PureRAW did a better job. New Perspective Module & Nondestructive Editing for Lightroom Users. I processed this image through Capture One Pro 21, on autopilot. As I expected, the noise was considerable. The test I ran was with four shots from a Sony A700 with a Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 24–70mm lens at ISO 3200. We tested the best features of DxO OpticsPro 11 to find out whether it's the best RAW image editor around. When a company tells the press its new product can turn any RAW image into a perfect linear DNG that can be further processed in any linear DNG-aware image editor, we want to see that in action. Clean up Your RAW Files and Keep Using Lightroom or PhotoshopĭxO Labs’s AI-based PureRAW removes noise, chromatic aberrations, unwanted vignetting, distortion, and insufficient sharpness. DxO perspective won't appeal to everyone as it is a niche app, designed for folks who take a lot of landscape photos, interior photos or photos of buildings.