These can be processed with three different noise reduction algorithms (HQ, PRIME, and DeepPRIME). What does DxO PureRAW offer?ĭxO PureRAW is a standalone program that exclusively works with RAW files. It can again be used for 31 days without any restrictions. You can download a trial version of DxO PureRAW* directly from DxO. In particular, I wanted to see how it compared to my current processing with PhotoLab’s DeepPRIME module. To see how the new program performs in my workflow, I installed and tested it. Since a few days, DxO PureRAW is available. My wish was grantedĭxO has now fulfilled my wish. Since I use only DxO’s noise reduction DeepPRIME and want to continue my image processing in LRC, it would therefore be nice if DxO would deliver DeepPRIME as a separate module, since I currently do not need any of the other features of PhotoLab. LRC also offers extensive management of images, which allows me to organize my now more than 180,000 images very well. In my opinion, LRC is much more intuitive to use and, above all, much faster. However, I still don’t use the other features of DxO PhotoLab at all, as I still prefer to do all other image editing and tagging in Adobe Lightroom Classic (LRC). That means that an ISO 12,800 image processed with DeepPRIME is comparable in terms of noise to an image processed in Adobe Lightroom at ISO 3,200. Roughly speaking, the results with DeepPRIME are a good 2 stops cleaner than those I can achieve with Lightroom Classic. It allows to achieve impressive results even from photos taken at ISO 12,800. Since then, I’ve been using the DeepPRIME algorithm frequently on my high ISO images.

In the meantime, I updated to the current Version 5 of PhotoLab.

In short, I was so impressed with the results that I decided to buy DxO PhotoLab 4 Elite, despite its rather high price, solely because of its sensational noise reduction. In my review of DxO’s RAW converter, DxO PhotoLab 4, I extensively tested the new AI / Deep Learning based noise reduction technique DeepPRIME (only included in the PhotoLab 4 Elite version) for high-ISO images. DeepPRIME - A revolution in digital noise reduction DxO has released a new AI-based tool for noise reduction in digital images.

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