Experion Windchants Apartment Interior Photography Using DxO PhotoLab

I’ve been experimenting with DxO PhotoLab, PureRAW, and Nik Collection for improving interior photography, especially for apartment spaces. Recently, I worked on a set of photos taken inside a residential project similar to Experion Windchants, focusing on rooms, lighting, and overall spatial mood. One challenge I noticed in apartment interiors is balancing natural light with indoor artificial lighting. Some rooms had large windows but uneven exposure, while others were slightly underexposed in corners. I used DxO PureRAW first to clean up noise and recover details from shadows, which made a noticeable difference in darker areas.

After that, I processed the images in DxO PhotoLab, mainly using Smart Lighting and ClearView Plus to enhance depth without making the interior look artificial. Lens corrections also helped straighten architectural lines, which is very important for real estate/interior shots.

Finally, I used Nik Collection (especially Color Efex Pro) for subtle tone adjustments to keep the apartment feel warm and natural, without over-editing.

Overall, this workflow helped bring out a more realistic and premium look of the interior spaces, especially in large residential environments like Experion Windchants-style apartments where lighting conditions vary from room to room.

Would be great to know how others are handling interior architecture photography using DxO tools.

Using PureRAW before PhotoLab is redundant. PL contains all there is in PR, unless you use versions that are years apart.

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Welcome @delishad

As I’ve already said, stacking PureRAW and PhotoLab doesn’t make sense.
If necessary, PureRAW followed by Nik.
For apartment photos taken with an ultra-wide-angle lens, DxO offers a better solution: PhotoLab with the ViewPoint plugin, which corrects perspective and vanishing.
Pascal

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I’ll be a third voice saying that starting with PureRAW then moving to PhotoLab does not seem sensible because does everything that PureRAW does,
and it gives you more options.

The only possible reason for starting with PR and then moving on to PL would be if you have the latest version of PR but a really old version of PL, one that doesn’t include the latest DeepPRIME algorithms.

Also, again as already mentioned by @Pieloe, if you have DxO ViewPoint you can correct perspective, including volume deformation, within PL.

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