The clean looking interface has two tabs in the top left corner, Photo Library and Customise. PhotoLab 6 Elite: Open it upĭxO Photolab 6. This means you can do more tidying up without having to go beyond PhotoLab.įinally, to enhance its workflow credentials PhotoLab 6 has colour labels for easier file management, a good search facility, extended range of EXIF and IPTC tags, and an improved projects feature to help you organise pictures more efficiently. Essentially, the tool lets you perform complex cloning and healing tasks with fine-tunable brushes that can modified, flipped and rescaled. DxO has a ReTouch tool (formerly called the Repair tool) to help you fulfil those needs. In any workflow, the odds are you will need to clone out the odd crisp packet, sensor spot or heal skin blemishes. You can now check how images look in with the profiles that you normally use for home or lab printing with Relative and Perceptual intents available too. An addition for v6.4 is the ability to use DxO Wide Gamut and simulate papers and inks when soft proofing. Thousands of camera/lens combinations available.ĭxO has reengineered its colour processing algorithms and there is a new extended working colour space called DxO’s Wide Gamut with a broader colour range than its Classic colour space. In v6.5.1 the software now works with Fujifilm’s most recent fufth generationmodels, the X-H2, X-H2S and X-T5.īefore getting to the test, I should first cover the other key changes in version 6 and also say that PhotoLab 6 is fully supported by DxO’s renowned Optic Module correction profiles that enhance sharpness and cure distortion, vignetting and chromatic aberrations. In PhotoLab 6, the technology has been advanced further with the addition of DeepPRIME XD (eXtreme Detail) and that technology is also now available in DxO’s dedicated denoising software, PureRaw 3.Īs a regular and keen user of DeepPRIME, I was keen to check out the benefits of XD, especially as DxO made that mode fully compatible with Fujifilm X-Trans CMOS sensors in v6.4.

The journey began with Prime and that evolved to the even more effective DeepPRIME, and those skills were available in PhotoLab 5.

The updates to PhotoLab v6.5.1 from the previous version aren’t huge but they are significant you want the best image quality, especially from high ISO images.ĭxO has possibly the best Raw demosaicing and denoising technology available in any software. DxO, the company with PureRaw and the Nik Collection in its stable, has revamped its flagship editing and workflow software.Essential edition, $139, £128, outright purchase.Elite edition, $219, £199, outright purchase.

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