DxO PureRAW

[John-M (Melbourne, Australia - Win10)]

@Eddy.Baldon

In my opinion, it is absolutely necessary to have an option to regulate sharpness and denoising.

@Fraenzken

I totally agree. … … Also I would like to see the option to turn off distortion correction for some lenses without affecting the rest of the lens corrections.

Frank & Eddy - - For ultimate flexibility in configuring DxO’s lens corrections and DeepPRIME rendering; see DxO PhotoLab.

John M

[jeffholdgate]

Agreed. Some of my files come out with artifacts

[Eddy.Baldon]

Dear John, I dont´need PL4, I´m Adobe & Topaz User and don´t like to change a runnig system. PureRAW as an additional ( one click ) option… why not. But please not zero customizable. Finetuning of lens sharpness, usm and noise luminance are at least indispensable.

[John-M (Melbourne, Australia - Win10)]

@Eddy.Baldon

Dear John, I dont´need PL4, I´m Adobe & Topaz User and don´t like to change a running system.

I wasn’t suggesting you drop all your other tools and switch to PhotoLab, Eddy - - You could use PL exactly as you’re using PureRAW - but with complete customisability … and export to Adobe.

John

[platypus (Canon & Mac (Intel and M1))]

@Yoms

“I presently have DxO PL, but I mainly use it for demosaicing + optics corrections + NR. Since DxO has released PureRaw, I won’t buy DxO PL Elite 5 in the future, I’ll just buy PureRaw 2 instead”.

Sounds sensible - if you like PR’s output files. I find them to look slightly over-processed, and PR offers no obvious way of tuning its customizing parameters.

[Fraenzken]

I guess it would be great if PureRaw at least allowed the changing of some basic parameters for those of us who do not want to buy a full raw converter with all the bells and whistles and still want to tune the few corrections PureRaw does to their liking. This would make PureRaw much more appealing imho without cutting into DXO’s PhotoLab sales.

[platypus (Canon & Mac (Intel and M1))]

There is no way to vote yet, but you could add to this thread:

Possibility to tune customizing

I’d welcome a way to influence how strong the effects of PR turn out. As far as I am concerned, no sliders are needed, a simple text file should be enough. The file could include something like this: LuminanceNoiseReduction=20 SmartLighting=10 While such a feature might look too complicated for the casual user, it would allow some freedom for advanced usage - without adding too much bulk to the app.

[Kaz (Casimir SASIN - Win10, PL4elit, FP5, VP3, Nik2, Sony alpha.)]

What I would better understand though is this narrative: “I presently have DxO PL, but I mainly use it for demosaicing + optics corrections + NR. Since DxO has released PureRaw, I won’t buy DxO PL Elite 5 in the future, I’ll just buy PureRaw 2 instead”.

Hmm, it would seem the case except for those who shoot with lenses without contacts for PureRAW needs a lens profile to work effectively?.. best i give the free trial a go

Update: Initial thoughts on the trial… i like it For a run and gun workflow this software has its strengths. I can rest assure images have the basic corrections covered allowing time spent to focus on colouring and such. Hmm more promising than originally thought, see how this stands at the end of the trial period.

[DxOStaffPO]

Hello Jon, hello everybody,

We hope you enjoy the software.
Unfortunately, the fact that you can import in DxO PureRAW a file from Fujifilm X-T2 with X-Trans is a bug and the result is nowhere near what we can achieve with supported cameras and lenses.
Please note that this bug is also applicable for Fujifilm X-E2 files.
You can find the complete list of supported equipment here : https://www.dxo.com/dxo-photolab/supported-cameras/

Thanks for your feedback.

Best,
DxO Staff

[jon1 (jon)]

I also found out that the result from the processing was not good at all. Obviously a bug that allowed me to import and process the RAW file.

[uncoy (Alec Kinnear)]

@kokofresha

please give us significant progress in PhotoLab 5. Don’t waste your time.

I’d see this PureRAW party trick (keep your existing software/workflow, improve your output from RAW), as almost entirely a marketing effort to attract more attention and users to the DxO brand. As I’m almost 100% Photolab these days for image processing, starting with all the AI tools turned off except a custom colour profile, I can’t imagine using PureRAW myself and will not buy it (normally I buy all updates for all DxO software), as I don’t like the excessive Photolab defaults (impressive at first glance but very contrived) and I no longer use other RAW developers.

As a marketing effort, I salute the idea though.