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Capture One 23 review

December 3, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4.8 stars Capture One 23 is a professional Lightroom rival that offers a step up in both image quality and editing tools, and supports a greater variety of professional workflows. The RAW processing is excellent, the editing tools are powerful and the new Cull view, layered Styles and improved Variant handling alone make the upgrade look worth it. Capture One is not cheap, but it’s designed for professional, quality-orientated workflows.

Filed Under: Best software, Capture One, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: Adjustment layer, Asset management, Capture One, Cataloguing software, Culling, DAM (Digital Asset Management), Masks, RAW processing, Session (Capture One), Style (Capture One), Tethered shooting, Variant (Capture One)

ON1 Photo RAW 2023 review

December 1, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4.5 stars ON1 Photo RAW 2023 is probably the closest thing there is to a photo editor that does absolutely everything. This version adds AI subject recognition and masking features. ON1 Photo RAW’s scope and ambitions are impressive, though the AI doesn’t always work perfectly and ON1 Photo RAW 2023 can sometimes feel sluggish.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, ON1 Photo RAW, ReviewsTagged With: AI (artificial intelligence), Browser (photos), Cataloguing software, Noise reduction, Non-destructive editing, NoNoise AI, ON1 Photo RAW, Portrait enhancement, RAW processing, Subject recognition, Tack Sharp AI

Affinity Photo 2 review

November 29, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4.5 stars Affinity Photo 2 is not a huge leap forward from version 1 for photographers, but more a major refresh and rebranding for Affinity. It remains an extremely powerful professional Photoshop rival at an exceptionally low price. Its tone mapping is superb, its RAW processing can now be applied non-destructively and its central Photo personal is hugely powerful.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: Affinity Photo, Develop (RAW files), Focus stacking, HDR, Layers, Panoramas, Tone mapping

Topaz Photo AI review

November 11, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 3.3 stars $199 is a lot of money to pay for a simplified AI photo fixer and there’s not even a trial version, just an ‘unconditional’ money back guarantee. When it works, Photo AI is good, even spectacular, but the image and its problems have to fall within its window of fixability. Photo AI is also slow, over-aggressive with noise reduction and can only fix the right sort of blur.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: AI (artificial intelligence), Artefact/artifact, Noise reduction, Photo AI (Topaz), Portrait enhancement, Resampling, Resizing, Sharpening, Topaz Labs

Radiant Photo review

November 2, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4 stars Radiant Photo sounds like countless other ‘magic’ photo apps and plug-ins that use the power of AI to make your photos perfect. The difference is that it works. Not every image will be transformed equally, but the dullest, most difficult and downright impossible images are the ones that get the most benefit.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: AI (artificial intelligence), Radiant Photo, Subject recognition

DxO ViewPoint 4 review

October 17, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 3.8 stars DxO ViewPoint 4 takes distortion and perspective correction to a new level, with Volume Deformation correction, a new ReShape local warping tool and more. But its core perspective correction tools will likely already exist in any host application you choose to launch it from. For ultimate perspective and distortion control, it’s hard to fault – as long as you do actually need what it does.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, PhotoLab, Reviews

DxO PhotoLab 6 Elite review

October 6, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4.5 stars PhotoLab 6 has important improvements over version 5 which make it even better for quality fixated photographers. The PhotoLibrary organizing tools are catching up at last and the new DeepPRIME XD processing is superb. Add in the excellent editing tools and local adjustments, and you have perhaps the best RAW processor of all.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, PhotoLab, ReviewsTagged With: Aberrations, Barrel distortion, Control point, Corner shading, DeepPRIME (DxO), Distortion, DxO, Lens corrections, Noise reduction, PhotoLab (DxO), RAW processing, Virtual Copy (Lightroom)

Skylum Luminar Neo review

August 22, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 3.3 stars Luminar Neo uses Skylum’s latest AI tech for results that can be spectacular, variable or, occasionally, somewhat pointless, though there’s no denying its ability to transform regular photos into more ‘idealized’ versions of reality. But its constant updates, complex bundles, extensions and paid add-ons don’t inspire a lot of confidence.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, Luminar, Reviews

DxO Nik Collection 5 review

August 18, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 5 stars Only a modest amount has changed here from Nik Collection 4, but it was already so good there was little room left for improvement. If your photography needs an injection of inspiration, style, or creativity, this is where you’ll find it. Even if you already have version 4, the new Color Efex Pro 5 and Analog Efex Pro 3 could make it worth upgrading.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, Nik Collection, ReviewsTagged With: Analog Efex Pro (Nik Collection), Color Efex Pro (Nik Collection), Dfine (Nik Collection), HDR Efex Pro (Nik Collection), Perspective Efex (Nik Collection), Plug-ins, Sharpener Pro (Nik Collection), Silver Efex Pro, Viveza (Nik Collection)

Corel PaintShop Pro 2023 review

August 12, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 3 stars Paint Shop Pro 2023 offers a lot for the money, but in use it’s clunky, dated and often counterintuitive. The image organization and RAW processing tools are adequate and no more, and while the editing and effects tools are all right, it’s clear that Corel is pitching Paint Shop Pro at a fairly basic ‘crafting/project’ user.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, PaintShop Pro, Reviews

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