During that time I’ve tested just about every image editor under the sun, from free open-source software to industry-standard software suites. Hi, my name is Thomas Boldt, and I’ve been a digital photographer since the days when you could measure your megapixels with a single digit. Lightroom “plugin” isn’t a useful workflow. What I Don’t Like: PhotoLibrary still lacking key features. What I Like: Excellent noise reduction with PRIME. As a result, PhotoLab is best used as a secondary editing option to supplement an existing workflow rather than replacing your existing one. DxO offers a Lightroom plugin with the goal of allowing users to keep Lightroom as their catalog manager, but conflicts between RAW processing engines prevent this from being a viable solution. PhotoLab includes an updated library management tool, but it still needs a lot of additional features before it’s actually ready to replace your current digital asset manager. For photographers focused on color accuracy, this latest version also includes support for DCP profiles.
A number of other excellent automatic adjustments simplify the editing process, and newly-added localized editing tools allow you to fine-tune their results more effectively than in the past. As you might expect from them, PhotoLab provides excellent automatic lens corrections and a truly incredible noise reduction algorithm they call PRIME. Haven't looked at Pixelmator Pro, but that sounds as though the program does take things further than in the initial versions.PhotoLab is a RAW editor from DxO, a company famous for its precision testing of optical equipment. I just wish sometimes that it didn't have to be me responsible for editing the images after a shooting session!Ī while back I tried Pixelmator and it didn't appeal to me (don't recall now just why). What we can do today moves so far beyond those days that it is still rather dazzling at times. I had a love/hate relationship with the darkroom, too, and I am sure that I am not alone in that. On the other hand I have to say that I also appreciate having full control over my images right here at home on a computer. I miss the days when we shot film and we could run by the lab and throw some film canisters at them, they'd process them, we'd look at the contact sheets, mark some up for further processing, and a day or two after that would have pretty much what we wanted, thanks to their seemingly magical skills. My primary interest is in photography and getting the shot(s), and the whole editing/retouching process now required of us really doesn't thrill me. It does what I want and need and seems intuitive and gets me where I want to be at the present time but also allows for growth and further learning as I work in the program more over time.
I really have been very happy with DXO PhotoLab - now on v.5.
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