What does 'Run through DXO PureRAW mean'?

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Hi, I asked a photographer, a Lightroom Classic user, who was presenting some of the their birds in flight images what post-processing they do. The answer was ‘run through DXO PureRAW and not much else’.

I wanted to ask what this really means, how this fits into a workflow. How does it fit with other plug-ins that might use AI on Photos.

I looked at the online manual put could not see the real-world answer I was looking for.

Is there a simple example use case guide or can someone provide a brief potential new user summary.

Thank you for your help.

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DxO PureRAW is, essentially, a demosaïcing app with DeepPRIME noise reduction built in.

It only works on RAW files so, even if you use Lightroom, you still need to ensure that you demosaïc your files via PureRAW before any other treatment or plugin from within, or even outside of, Lightroom.

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In addition to what @Joanna said…

Think of PureRAW as a very cut down version of PhotoLab; PL without any of the editing features.

Also, if you have PhotoLab, you do not need PureRAW as PL gives you more control of the denoising process.

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@stuck @Joanna Thank you for your help.

So can I now ask that if I get home with a card full of RAW images from my OM-1 what am I doing before importing them into Lightroom Classic? Is PureRAW a batch approach or am I doing something with every image?

Alternatively, can I do my culling first in Lightroom Classic then just use PureRAW on my keepers?

PS, sorry for the late response but I did not receive any notification from this forum to say anyone had replied :frowning:

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I have an OM-1. My default ISO setting is 200. I don’t run anything through DxO unless the ISO is higher. DxO is quite slow, so you need to consider which images you want to denoise (that’s essentially what I use it for). I first tag images I want to process in my DAM, then right-click and send them to DxO (I have an external editor option in my software). I then run my saved DxO settings on the RAW files and save them in a separate folder as .dng files. It is the .dng files that I then go on to develop in my photo editor. I hope this helps a bit.

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@AliGW Hi, thank you that really helps.

So I can use PureRAW in Lightroom Classic using File > Plug-In Extras > ‘process with DXO PureRaw’ exactly the same as I might be doing with an Photo plug-in from another developer?

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I don’t use Lightroom or any Adobe product, so I really don’t know the answer to this, but if not, you can still access your RAW files from the standalone version and save them to a specific folder once processed.

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I pull from the SD card into FastRaw Viewer (could be any DAM) to cull and pick the images worth doing more with.
Then I open all the ones I liked through PureRAW 5 (PR) and set to export as .dng into a DNG subfolder (there is a convenient context menu item to just select images and make PR do it’s thing)
From there I would then jump to whatever program I like (usually Luminar or PL).
Sometimes I will set PR to export .tiff instead of .dng if I want to go B&W and use NIX Silver Efex Pro.
So bottom line, use PureRAW before everything else to correct all the technical stuff, export as DNG (or tiff) for the next program.
PureRAW really does work magic with high ISO files and crap lenses :slight_smile: