Thanks, Alister! This was a very helpful and interesting video! I am a DXO PR 4 user, and after watching your video, I returned to an old RAW file I shot in 2006 and reprocessed it using DXO and some additional LR modules. What a difference between my originally processed image and this one! This is my first reply to one of your posts. I enjoy your videos and have subscribed to your channel for some time. I appreciate your insightful and thoughtful approach to landscape photography. I’ve learned a great deal from your videos, which has benefited my photography greatly. I’m an American, but I must reveal my Scottish roots (Campbeltown) to you and my love for everything Scottish. I’ve been to Scotland many times for both landscape photography and golf, my two passions in life. Thanks for all you do for landscape photography!
I have used Topaz Denoise for several years and just started using DXO Pure Raw 4 recently and I am impressed that it took care of artifacts the Topaz could not. Thanks for the inspiration!
A really interesting video Alister! I always shoot RAW and am very familiar with the usual arguments in favor of RAW, but the archival element is such a strong point. I think we all have older images that we love that can benefit from current and future processing improvements. As an analogy, I think it was Brian Eno who said that with modern digital music production, there's no longer a single version of a song that can't be enhanced into newer versions from the original recording. BTW, long-time DXO Photo Lab user...love the software!
Wonderfully expressed, Alistair! I have DXO Pure Raw 3 and wondered if you saw a significant improvement in NR for version 4? May have to give the trial a go and see how it handles starry skies relative to artifacts. Thanks for the suggestion to try it this on some older RAW images.
I use dxo pure raw 3 as a matter of course for new and old images. Particularly good for high iso. In my opinion, the only thing you have to be mindful of is the possibility of over sharpening where detail can look a bit “crunchy”. For some images, it is like upgrading your lens! Great piece of software and very easy to use.
I'm quite the fan of DxO PhotoLab 7. I spent about 3.5 hours with it today in fact culling and cleaning up images from my latest photo tour. I don't use PhotoShop or Lightroom. Nice job on a 20-year-old raw!
Pure Raw trial is actually 14 days, the rest of the software is 30. Thanks for the discount coupon as I've been looking into it but the US to Canadian dollar exchange is awful right now so that eases the pain.
Hi, I do wildlife photography and use L/R + DXO Pure Raw on many images but at the time of writing there is a big problem with DXO PR. After you export from L/R to DXO when the image comes back into L/R the processing version is changed from 6 back to ver 1 this then disables the use of the L/R masking option unless you manually go and change it back to ver 6. Believe that DXO are aware of the problem but after a month there seems to be no sign or advice on when a fix maybe released so DXO Pure Raw is not at this time 100% the best denoising program out there.
Great video Alister. I think the other thing to remember is that a lot of people say oh I want to shoot JPEG because it saves on storage space well to be honest storage now is quite cheap even if you just are backing up to a simple SSD system or you have to pay a little bit more for your online backup or whatever you use it's not as expensive as it used to be and there are plenty of cheaper options for storage, so my argument is always been shoot raw and then you've got the best possible chance of creating a beautiful image. I have to admit, I've been using the Lightroom as I don't like the flow between using one Program and then having to export it across I just find that becomes another process. I have to go through. I would only probably do it if I had a really nice image that really needed a lot of cleaning up probably because I'm a half decent photographer already. I generally don't have to use too much denoise stuff, but it is a consideration definitely going forward. Thanks for the video
Wonderful video and really beautiful final image. I have used the free trail for the DxO plugin for photoshop but never the PureRaw one, it seems like it does a really nice job for sure. Cheers!
Hi Alister, I will agree DxO software is superb, been using it since Photolab 2 with Nik Collection2 and Filmpack. The processing results are very nice. Not positive, but I believe Pureraw may be included with Photolab 7 (Elite), I cant remember as I purchased the full suite at a discount when I upgraded from Photolab 5-7. If anyone was deciding to purchase Photolab 7 Elite, PureRaw4 may be accessible/included already, could save a few bucks. Cheers,
Hallo Alister, thank you very much for this one! I‘m using PureRaw4 and I‘m very pleased with the results, especially when it comes to Nightscapes. They look very naturally, because the details are saved and the fotos don‘t appear „digital“. They still look analogue in a way Vinyl-LPs appear in comparison to digital sources, if this does make sense.
Thanks for that. I agree, there treatment of Raw files is excellent and lacks a lot of that digital “look” that we’re all getting tired of. Glad you enjoyed it
Great video, many thanks. Time & will are crucial (too many old RAW to edit;). I rely on Capture One and DxO Photolab (more versatile than DxO Pureraw) when very high iso (but I avoid). The key is to shoot less: 10-20 per session. This constraint boosts my creativity.
Very interesting video; Alister. I must to try DxO. I have a question, about the storage space : are the raw files of GFX 100 MkII bigger than those of 100s ? I'm thinking doing the upgrade and i'm considering all things a bit... Many thanks.....
DXO, I need another software 🤔 As a gfx 100s shooter using Capture One as my raw editor, do you see an advantage to DXO? Nik Silver Efex is on my radar to learn so I’m open to reimagining my workflow again. How goes DXO fit into your current workflow?
That’s a big question. I’ve been processing most of my images in DxO for a while. I tried C1 and just found it clunky to integrate with Nik (also DXO) - PureRaw4 is superb and works incredibly well with GFX files. Try the free trial and compare. 🙏❤️
@@Alister_Benn I just thought that was small, never shot compressed on my 50 and it's 102MB and I thought that was more or less the size of the 100 compressed. Not that it matters.
