{"id":12656,"date":"2021-12-01T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T10:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12656"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T10:58:06","slug":"is-dxo-the-ultimate-raw-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/is-dxo-the-ultimate-raw-editor","title":{"rendered":"Is DXO the ultimate RAW Editor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For years I’ve read about this mythical software called DxO<\/a> and its magical ability to create superbly detailed, best-in-class photos from your camera raw files. Like most people I know, I’m a happy Lightroom user and love its workflow, and have an intimate knowledge of what every slider does, so was never looking for something to replace it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Problem(s) With Lightroom<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I may be accused of heresy here, but sometimes I despair at what Lightroom sharpening does when I want to pull detail out of shadow areas (and sometimes even in those bright areas). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the noise reduction can get a little bit mushy, so in a shadow region, if you apply my Luminosity noise reduction, all the detail disappears and you get a block of pastel colour – rather than detail in those pixels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve used most raw editors and never really found a workflow that would fit into my Lightroom world…. But now with dxo<\/a> maybe, just maybe, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What a lightroom add-on would do – in a perfect world<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What I want is something to take care of the noise reduction, lens optic corrections and sharpening, so I can switch those off in Lightroom. That is exactly what the DXO<\/a> have created. PureRAW<\/a> and photolab<\/a> can both create enhanced raw files from your cameras raw file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Well, it means you can import those into Lightroom as raw files and edit them in any way you can tweak a normal raw file but the best-in-class noise reduction and sharpening has already been applied so you can switch those off in Lightroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a very short video where I talk about it and show an example<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n