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DxO Optics Pro

DxO Optics Pro was a high-quality RAW processing and lens correction tool with some sophisticated global image adjustment tools and image effect presets. It's since been superseded by DxO PhotoLab, which now has local adjustment tools following DxO's purchase of the Nik Collection and its control point technology.

DxO PhotoLab vs Lightroom vs Capture One – which is best for RAW files?

August 2, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Which is best for processing RAW files, DxO PhotoLab, Lightroom or Capture One? Here’s a set of eight image comparisons that aims to find out.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, PhotoLab, Reviews Tagged With: Capture One, DxO Optics Pro, Lightroom

DxO Optics Pro 10.5.4 update and half price offer

March 17, 2016 by Rod Lawton

DxO has updated all three of its key image correction and enhancement applications. DxO Optics Pro 10.5.4 comes with support for six new cameras and 50 additional lens combinations to bring the total to more than 28,000 – camera and lens profiles are used together to provide the software’s automatic RAW conversion and lens correction […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: DxO Optics Pro

How to create and save your own DxO Optics Pro presets

January 19, 2016 by Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro 10 comes with a whole bunch of interesting-looking presets, but it’s really easy to create your own. Once you’ve perfected a ‘look’ that you like, you can then apply it to your photos in the same way as the built-in presets. Here’s how it’s done. DxO Optics Pro 11 review 01: Start […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: DxO Optics Pro, Presets

Clear the decks! Create a custom DxO workspace in minutes, save hours later

December 14, 2013 by Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro custom workspace

DxO Optics Pro can produce stunning picture quality, and it automatically finds the right correction profiles for your photos, so mostly you can just sit back and admire the results. Unless you want to make some adjustments, that is, because that’s when DxO Optics Pro shows a very different side. Here, you must swap to […]

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Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: DxO Optics Pro

Beautiful black and white with DxO Optics Pro: Part 1

December 13, 2013 by Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro black and white

Don’t write off DxO Optics Pro as a one-tricky pony. It’s brilliant at correcting lens aberrations and perspective and maximising the quality of your RAW files, but the lack of any localised adjustment tools can tempt you into migrating to another app as soon as you’ve fixed the basic issues. But don’t be in such […]

Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: Black and white, DxO Optics Pro

DxO Optics Pro Prime 9.0 vs 9.1: is there a difference?

December 6, 2013 by Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro PRIME noise reduction

DxO Optics Pro 9 came with a new PRIME noise reduction feature that was much more effective than the program’s regular High noise reduction process, but it was a processor-intensive task that took several minutes to render a finished image. Worse, some users remarked that the processed files looked a little ‘soft’. I wasn’t exactly […]

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Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: DxO Optics Pro, Noise reduction

DxO Smart Lighting vs Selective tone: what’s the difference?

November 22, 2013 by Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro Selective tone

One of DxO Optics Pro’s trademark features is its Smart Lighting technology. DxO Smart Lighting works on your RAW files to bring out shadow detail without compromising your midtones or highlights. You can use it to recover far greater dynamic (brightness) range from your RAW files. But it’s not always been easy to figure out. […]

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DxO Smart Lighting v7 vs v9: which is best?

November 15, 2013 by Rod Lawton

DxO Smart Lighting v9 vs v7

DxO Optics Pro made its name with its automatic lens correction profiles, but it has evolved into a powerful and effective RAW conversion tool too. And part of its success lies in the DxO Smart Lighting’ technology, which recovers blocked-in shadow detail to reveal a full range of tones in your pictures. But it’s not […]

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Export sharpening part 2: DxO Optics Pro 9 and Capture One Pro 7

November 7, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Export sharpening with DxO Optics Pro 9 and Capture One Pro 7

Export sharpening is a setting that’s often overlooked when you generate images for online or on-screen viewing, but it makes a big difference to how sharp your pictures look. Every time you resample an image, you introduce a degree of blur because the software has to interpolate new pixel values – and this applies when […]

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Filed Under: Capture One, Tutorials Tagged With: Capture One, DxO Optics Pro, Sharpening

Testing DxO Optics Pro 9 highlight recovery

October 28, 2013 by Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro 9 highlight recovery

DxO Optics Pro 9 has just been released, and one of the new features is an improved Smart Lighting feature with what DxO claims is even better highlight recovery. According to DxO, it can now recover highlight detail even when the information is not in the original RAW file. • DxO Optics Pro 11 review […]

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Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: DxO Optics Pro, Highlight recovery

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