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DxO Photolab 6.3 update brings improved color management and profile handling

February 8, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Image credit: Kelvin Chan
Image credit Kelvin Chan/DxO

The improvements in PhotoLab 6.3 mainly target the Elite edition, with an extension to the soft proofing tools that can no incorporate on-screen simulations of papers and inks, to allow even more accurate color visualization and control over printed output.

This uses the DxO Wide Gamut working space introduced in PhotoLab 6. A working space is designed to encompass all the colors that can be reproduced, so that no color information is lost or overlooked during editing. With soft proofing you can edit images to make sure the colors you need are brought within the color gamut of your chosen output device.

DxO is especially proud of its Wide Gamut working space, claiming that it fully encompasses all the colors available in commercial lab printing, where the sRGB and Adobe RGB color spaces do not.

The ProPhoto working space is larger still, we understand, but DxO says it did not follow that route because the ProPhoto color space describes theoretical colors that don’t necessarily exist in nature. Other enhancements include the ability to now edit JPEG and TIFF files in this Wide Gamut working space, not just RAW files.

DxO has also modified its automatic camera-lens profile downloads to make it quicker to select the lens modules you want and download them all at once – previously you had to download them one by one.

You can now also extend the crop tool to show the entire image, including distorted/corrected edges, which could be useful in conjunction with content aware fill tools to extend the image area.

This does not seem like a major update, except for users producing high-end prints. There are no other changes to the editing or cataloguing tools, for example. This is an interim update not a full version update, though, so existing PhotoLab 6 users will get this free.

If you haven’t tried DxO PhotoLab yet, there is a 30-day free trial. You can also try out the DxO Nik Collection, FilmPack 6, ViewPoint 4 and the very clever DxO PureRAW batch processing, lens correction and noise reduction tool. Click on the DxO Store link below.

DxO software downloads and pricing*

DxO PhotoLab 6 Elite: regular price $219/£199
DxO ViewPoint 4: regular price $99/£89
DxO FilmPack 6 Elite: regular price $139/£129
DxO PureRAW 3: regular price $129/£115
DxO Nik Collection 5: regular price $149/£135

• 30 day trials are available for each product and bundle deals are available.

*Check for the latest offers at the DxO store

DxO store

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Filed Under: Featured, News, PhotoLabTagged With: Color management, DxO, PhotoLab (DxO), Working space

Life after Photoshop is owned and run by photographer and journalist Rod Lawton. Rod has been a photography journalist for nearly 40 years, starting out in film (obviously) but then migrating to digital. He has worked as a freelance journalist, technique editor and channel editor, and is now Group Reviews Editor on Digital Camera World. Life after Photoshop is a personal project started in 2013.

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