#DXO PHOTOLAB 3 REVIEW SOFTWARE#

It’s all well and good offering users multiple features, but if an editing program is sluggish, it doesn’t make a great user experience (I can name a few!) DXO PhotoLab delivers extremely good performance, even from my i5 8GB laptop. Overall, DXO PhotoLab V5 Elite is well laid out and very intuitive once you have edited one or two photographs. The top right of the screen has an “Apply Preset” setting which opens up the world of DXO presets, allowing you to add different looks to your images in one simple click should you want to. Image loaded into the editor in DXO PhotoLabĪlong the top of the screen you get your various quick access tools, such as crop, rotate, white balance colour picker, perspective control, gradients and various other tools. It’s the perfect way to work, and just clicking on your chosen image opens up that image to view or double click the image for editing. You have plenty of filter options too, so you can just view particular images (only jpeg or raw for example), so you don’t clutter up your workspace. This means, if you have images you have edited, they will show up on the panel in their last edited form (and you can continue editing at later date). You’ll enter the “PhotoLibrary” view, where you can see your images side by side and instantly view the state they are in. Opening DXO PhotoLab, you’re greeted to a quite familiar, but slightly different layout to what you would see with Lightroom. That alone should tell you just how much thought, combined with DXO’s knowledge is applied to this package. Using DXO labs extensive data, PhotoLab V5 also has sophisticated control over lens distortions, cromatic abberations and individual lens vignetting issues. That’s a lot to promise, but here’s a spoiler… It delivers!

However, it prioritises demosaicing and denoising as a main feature, to ensure the finest quality image that you can imagine.

So, when a package comes along that makes you raise an eyebrow, you know you’re in for a treat.ĭXO PhotoLab is a raw editor, along the lines of Lightroom. I keep up to date with them so that I can share knowledge and help others, and generally keep in touch with the progression of editing software.

#DXO PHOTOLAB 3 REVIEW SOFTWARE#

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Dxo photolab 3 review