DxO ViewPoint 3 – £34.50 instead of £69.
DxO PhotoLab 5 – £99.50 instead of £199.Nik Collection 4 – £67.50 instead of £135.DxO PhotoLab 5 has recently been released, with support for Fujifilm X-Trans raw files. (One could argue that not supporting those DNGs hurts them more, but that’s not the call that DxO seems to be making.DxO are offering up to 50% off on all DxO software and Nik Collection, with the offer available from now until the 29th November. Since their main selling point is best-in-class image quality, supporting all kinds of generic DNGs produced by unknown software or devices would mean that some users and reviewers would end up not getting that best-in-class image quality, which would hurt the DxO brand. I suspect that they don’t want to do it, because such a generic algorithm would produce subpar results: images that lack in sharpness, and colors that can be off. If there are standard-ish RGB formats for DNGs with demosaiced data (which seems to be what Adobe Camera Raw might produce, and might be used as output by some point-and-shoot cameras and phones), or raw data matching a “standard” Bayer color filter array, then DxO could have a generic algorithm to interpret that. Raw de-mosaic and basic adjustments in Dxo and then exporting to Luminar Neo for creative editing.įor generic DNG support, my guess is that DxO only supports RAW files from cameras they have explicitly tested to calibrate their demosaicing and color rendering algorithms. Otherwise I will probably keep on my workflow at present. There’s some rumors about 40% off very soon. On Black Friday if it would be less then 70$, I will upgrade and keep the option for future upgrades. Just noise reduction is always getting a little bit better and better. Which means, if all other compatitors move forward, PL actually move backwards. No new “photography editing” tools since pl3. Although much better ui for the user, but it didn’t involve any new editing tool as regard to the software developers. The famous Color wheel HSL is just a different visualisation of the Hue&Tint sliders. I didn’t upgrade from v4 to v5 because all they did with the control points is just moving the hardcoded luminance and color setpoints into user changeable values via slider. PureRaw is the same app just with less features, nik collection is more or less the same as the free Google version. They only focused on squeezing the lemon more and more. After all, all they did is copy paste from Nik collection. I don’t think they have the “know how” in order to develop new editing tools. Totally agree with you a user since PL2, I realized I shouldn’t expect any new editing tools on this software.
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