You make an adjustment, the image preview becomes totally blurred, an hourglass appears for 1-2 seconds (3 seconds sometimes), then the result of your adjustment is finally displayed. One aspect that is not a missing feature but an operational imperfection is that DPL’s image preview takes a short while to process your adjustments before rendering the preview image. If DXO is open to customer suggestions for DPL, adding this feature will rank very high on my list of suggestions. The absence is a bit of a bother to my workflow, but I can tolerate it. However, this feature is strangely missing in DPL. Very useful for determining the exposure of selected regions of an image. That is, when you mouse over any spot of an image, the exposure level of that spot will be indicated on the exposure histogram. The final missing feature of note is that of a live exposure indicator. Hence its absence in DPL does not bother me. Personally, I use Affinity Photo which comes with this feature. Of course if you do not care for local defringe removal, you probably will not care about this. To be honest, LR’s built-in local defringe brush does not qualify as the best tool I have used, but is still better than having nothing. The lack of a local defringe brush is an important point to note if you are thinking of replacing LR and do not have access to local defringe capabilities via alternatives. No matter what RAW processor software you choose, you will have to supplement it with a more powerful image editing tool to deal with the most difficult-to-correct aberrations. Indeed, there are dedicated DAM software that do a much superior job than RAW processing software which try to cram in sub-standard and incomplete DAM functionalities. DPL should focus on its core competencies – RAW conversion and processing – and leave DAM functionalities to other more specialized software. The good news is that I do not consider this to be a huge disadvantage for DPL. DPL does not offer any such features, so you will have to look at using another software solution to track, keyword and organise your images. Both Adobe Lightroom(LR) and Capture One(C1) has built in Digital Asset Management features, and even 2nd-tier players such as On1 Photo and Alien Skin Exposure are building up their DAM functionalities. Let us start with the most obvious omission: DAM features. These features stand out to me because I find them very practical during post-processing and use them often. I will start with notable features that are absent in DXO PhotoLab(DPL) which are present in its main competitors. If you want to be sure you will be satisfied with the results from DXO PhotoLab and your camera’s RAW files, download a trial of the software and try it yourself. However, please note that there may be differences in results among different RAW formats. Of course you can make the usual inferences if you are work with RAW files from another camera maker. My observations come from working with Nikon NEF files. In this review, we will make comparisons with Adobe Lightroom and Nikon NX-D. With this change, the value proposition of DXO PhotoLab has improved dramatically and is now a serious challenger to the other tier 1 RAW processor giants including Adobe Camera Raw (from Adobe CC/Lightroom/Photoshop) and Phase One’s Capture One Pro. DXO Optics Pro has evolved to become DXO PhotoLab and now includes the very highly regarded U Point technology from Nik Collection Plugins for making local adjustments. Hence it was a difficult option to recommend, especially since it was not significantly cheaper than competitors which do have local adjustment capabilities and which were selling at similar (or lower!) prices.įortunately, things have changed now. While it appeared to be a decent RAW processor software, a major shortcoming was that it did not have any local adjustment capabilities.
In my original comparison of raw converters for Nikon NEF files, I mentioned DXO Optics Pro briefly.
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