Will these new improvements and features be a free update to PhotoLab 9 or part of a paid upgrade to PhotoLab 10?
After requesting it for so long, I’m psyched to see export of compressed DNGs. This is going to greatly streamline archiving of my high-volume event work. Yay, thanks! Now, I’m curious to know whether it will be possible to also down-rez upon export to DNG. If I start with a high-rez image, can I specify a target for pixel count or pixel dimensions for the output DNG? That would be AWESOME, as I currently spend too much time doing this in Lightroom, converting higher-rez to 4000x6000px for archiving.
I simply love your optimism to even think for a moment that we won’t have to pay these features.
It does mean that I will be looking forward to V10, which is not that long away now, as it will be an excellent upgrade over V8. I have had every release of Photolab but missed V9 due to the Nvidia issues, although I have now upgraded to a RTX5060Ti, so don’t expect any problems with V10.
Please provide a link to where DXO says what of PR6 will be in PL9.6. I thought I saw a reference of DPReview but did not find anything on that website.
I found one with a similar statement on the Petapixel site.
“DxO confirms that a forthcoming update to PhotoLab will incorporate several of the new technologies introduced here, including DeepPrime XD3 support for all sensor types and high-fidelity DNG compression. Expect that update to roll out later in March as a free minor release for current PhotoLab users”
Go to petapixel if you want to read the whole article.
Sounds similar to PL8.5 update when DxO added DeepPRIME3 and DeepPRIME XD3 X-Trans Beta. Probably they’ll not add XD3/Bayer to previous version, PL8, like they didn’t add DP3 or XD2s to PL7. But speculating on marketing department decissions is something I wouldn’t bet my money on. Prefer to work with facts on the ground rather than promisses
