

It offers automatic corrections for optical aberrations and image distortions for popular camera-lens combinations, as well as a range of other tools. Products DxO PhotoLab įirst released as DxO Optics Pro in 2004, DxO PhotoLab is digital image editing software package designed for professional photographers. On October 25, 2017, DxO announced the acquisition of the Nik Collection assets from Google. However it has spun off from them, DxOMark Image Labs. It sells DxO PhotoLab, DxO PureRaw, DxO ViewPoint, DxO FilmPack, and Nik Collection image processing software packages.ĭxO Labs created, which provides image quality ratings for standalone cameras, lenses, and mobile devices that include cameras.

The company's headquarters are in Paris, France. It was founded in 2003 by Jérôme Ménière, former CEO of Vision-IQ. My image processing has definitely improved in the past 6 weeks as I have made a concerted effort to get better at it.DxO Labs (formerly DO Labs) is a privately owned photography software company. I’m also sometimes only doing a single pass of high pass filter sharpening, at 0.2px, rather than 2 passes. I’m now finding that sometimes, I’m not adding contrast, or using opacity to turn the contrast down. I use a piece of software called “PixInsight” and it’s night and day better than Photoshop in UI imh9o not even close, but it’s a dedicated application for processing astrophotography images. I hate the way Photoshop does masks, it’s horrible. At least I’m using masks now, even if it’s not very good, or very efficient lol. I’ve tried the quick selection tool, but personally find it horrible to use. I’ve been sometimes using Topaz at the end of my workflow, and I’m now learning about masks, so sometimes I’m painting out the effects of Topaz on the bird where I feel that it’s way over sharpened the birds feather detail. I guess if you have a newer camera with much better high ISO performance than my 60D, ymmv.ĭo that, it is the only way to fine tune for your work flow. I have found DXO and Topaz to work well together and compliment each other very well. I do a minimal amount of sharpening in Lightroom too (+20). Interesting on the halos - I have noticed some halos on my images, and I do use the lens correction enable profile corrections option in Lightroom. I would make a decision which program to use for noise reduction on a given file, not both. If I used noise reduction in DXO PureRAW I would not use Topaz Denoise. It is generally used to get the best RAW file (DNG here) before final edits in a photo editor like PS or Affinity Photo. If you use optical corrections, noise reduction or sharpening in DXO PureRAW, best to avoid adding more in the photo editor, or you will get ugly halos from over sharpening and too much noise reduction. It does a very good job of RAW conversion to DNG, optical corrections, noise reduction and sharpening.
