

Here is a comparison – A shot of Brighton promenade taken at night in a snowstorm, The image on the left has a huge amount of very visible noise. It is a sunrise, taken around 6am at 1600 ISO and there is a fair amount of noise evident in the RAW, as displayed in Lightroom. The photo at the top of this article was processed with PureRAW. I have compared it to Lightroom noise reduction and there really is no competition. You will find there is a visible difference with more definition in the colours and far less noise in potentially troubled images. Pure RAW is better at RAW processing than Adobe Camera RAW. You can seamlessly have your images pre-processed in Pure RAW and open them up in Lightroom for editing and organisation. Use Pure RAW as a part of a Lightroom based workflow. PureRAW is not a competitor, it makes Adobe better by ensuring that the image you are editing is in the best possible shape to begin with. ON1 and Affinity have capable programs but struggle with updates and are nowhere close to the market penetration of Adobe.ĭxO have produced PureRAW to attack Adobe where they are weakest – the actual RAW processor. This is conjecture, but the state of the industry has Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom as the runaway leader in terms of photo processing software. What Direction are DxO Pursuing with PureRAW 3?

It simply manifests in different places as Profile corrections and Noise Reduction. All of the functionality of Pure RAW 3 is available in PhotoLab 6, so profile correction and noise reduction. Is DxO PureRAW 3 bundled with DxO PhotoLab? It is a direct competitor to Adobe Lightroom, using DxO’s Point technology where Lightroom uses Layers to achieve pretty much the same coverage of editing capabilities. What is DxO Photolab?ĭxO PhotoLab is the most advanced RAW Processing software in the industry, with catalog organisation, metadata etc. Think of it as a subset of PhotoLab that you can use as part of a Lightroom/Photoshop workflow.
