![]() ![]() With version 6.3, photographers now have the option to edit JPEG and TIFF files in the new color space, giving greater flexibility when editing files, and maximizing color capabilities. While DxO’s vast new working color space was designed to give photographers the ultimate color workflow for their RAW files, the company has decided to take things further. The important news now is that DxO Wide Gamut supports RGB image files. And if you want to try things yourself, there is a demo version of DxO PhotoLab you can download. I need some more time using the tools before I go ahead and write one article, but for now it’s important to share the news about this – let me say it again – free update. ![]() ![]() It was a sign of things to come, and now, some five months later, the free update that is DxO PhotoLab 6.3 is available to test, as it expands on what DxO Wide Gamut offers. While last October it was the DeepPRIME XD, an AI-powered RAW conversion technology that pushes the boundaries for noise reduction and detail enhancement that was the highlight of the update, the result of more than one year in development while the neural network teaching itself how to do its job better, other features were introduced, including a new color management system with an extended working color space. Now it is the time to say that the revolution continues, and is mostly silent, as the company surprises photographers, adding new features through an update that brings DxO PhotoLab to version 6.3. Last October, in one article under the title “DxO PhotoLab 6: the silent battle for noise reduction”, I wrote – and showed images – about the noise reduction tools in DxO’s photo editing software. My biggest doubt on DxO is the companies reliablity (patches, support, future camera support, etc) since the price is quite steep: It is the same as paying Adobe CC for 2 and 1/2 years since I need the Photo Suite to have the perspective correction from ViewPoint to replace LR "Transform" that I use a lot and FilmPack just to be able to create a vignette.Photographers can now simulate the ink and paper when soft proofing and benefit from the new DxO Wide Gamut options when editing JPEG and TIFF files in DxO PhotoLab 6.3. Basically disable denoise and sharpening on LR and try to do both on PS better than DxO or C1 can do Ģ) Move to DxO and blindly believe on their magical code ģ) Learn to tweak C1 to get the same results from DxO and keep its amazing colors. So, right now I am between three options:ġ) Keep Adobe CC and learn to fix Lightroom limitations on Photoshop. Here is a simple example (for me the difference on this 1-1 on the details of the trees and the green gazebo behind the statue are crazy): It looks like that they are doing something weird, some strong sharpening filter or something, that is tricking my eyes. But, they are so much better that I kind of doubt it. For me DxO gave the best results (specially pulling details out of the RAW, sharpening and noise reduction). CaptureOne has almost the same level of detail of DxO (but not the same), better denoise than LR (but not better than DxO) but the best colors. I was expecting better results from the Nik Collection (specially the denoise tool) but it look very artificial too me. They probably can improve, but then, it is too much work and I just prefer to stay on LR/PS that I am used to. I tried to tweak them but they never got super sharp. RawTherapee, Darktable and ON1 all looked very dull and soft on a straight conversion. ![]() Affinity I discarted right away because it failed to open one of my sample G9 High Res RAW files. I downloaded the trial of CaptureOne, DxO, Affinity, Nik Collection (to use just the denoise and sharpening plugins inside LR), ON1, Rawtherapee and Darktable. Since I am a CC monthly subscriber, I always fall back to Photoshop to do those and that always slows my workflow so I just do that with very few images.īut recently I decided to test other RAW converters. I am a Lightroom user since forever but I was never fully satisfied with sharpening and noise reduction on it. ![]()
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