I've been a Photoshop user since version 4...before many of you were even born...you don't want to get me started on Lightroom lol...I dumped Adobe years ago for Photolab...never looked back. To be honest, having been in this creative business for decades and having used all the editors you can think of, Photolab is my main go-to editor...yes, it does have some drawbacks like no layers (outside of masking) but there are clever workarounds I've developed in my time. I will be revealing major secrets on my KZbin channel soon enough. Best wishes to all...thank you Marcus...your vid is awesome!!!

Thank you

Thanks for the tutorial. I have the latest updates to Capture One and also Nik 7 but I'm unable to use the "Switch to" function in the Nik 7 suite...I can use Edit With in CO and it takes me to the selected Nik 7 plug in (say Color Efex) but from there when I select switch to (say Analog Efex) I just get taken back to to CO where I see the created Tif file. I've checked non destructive editing yet It never switches to the other selected Nik plug in. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

May I know the camera model please? I want to know if the new model of gfx will also handle the noise better. I'm using 100s, but since the response is too slow, I'm considering upgrade to 100 ii

Thank you Marcus! I'm looking forward to the Nik 7 tutorials as well.

Thanks for this useful video. Do you still use mostly Capture One, or are you also using DXO Photolab? I used DXO a lot years ago until I began using Fujifilm gear. At that time DXO didn't want anything to do with X-trans files. It was a shame--it had excellent color and midtone contrast controls, and of course the amazing sharpening feature.

Your tutorial/demonstration was very well done. I really liked how you set up the workflow. Now I need to research how to do that. Thank You.

Thank you for sharing all this brilliant detail! It's great to know your thought process as you move through specific steps to get to your final results. I feel like I've just taken an entire course, rather than a short tutorial. I'm so glad I just stumbled upon your channel, and I look forward to more of your videos. Cheers!

I've started using Skylum Luminar Neo for real estated photo editing. Oh my my, too cool! The advanced editing * the AI makes the images look like taken in multi-shoots. No need to take 3-5 pics!! Yet, the masks isn't as effective as Lightroom., nor the color picker.

I bought DXO optics Pro 4 back in 2004 I think, used it ever since and stille have it installed. So I recently installed Photolab 7 and I was disappointed by it, not because of its power, because that is still in it, it is very powerful! The problems I encountered where first of all the user interface: only the dark mode available.... Next month I turn 67 and my eyes need a lot more light, so I just hate the dark mode and there is no option to change to a lighter mode, even to read the text on the tools they have to be activated to turn them in to readable text..... Not good! Further more I noticed some very big changes,in the GUI, different set up, different tabs and so on, so that means I had to fight myself again thru that process and I sort of lost my interest in DXO. Probably if you are a newbee to DXO and you have good eyes you will soon love it, as I did once. Now I will use my old version whenever I feel nostalgic since I got myself a subsription on Photoshop and Lightroom. And I must say, I am impressed by lightroom classic, even more than I was with DXO. The masking tools in Lightroom allow me to develop my images top noch, they are intuative and easy to learn. Come to this point let me just give some comments on the Adobe TOS discussion: first of all, I don't use any cloud services; way too dangerous, so I prefer to store and backup locally (and that is probably a lot fatser as well) Second: I don't mind paying a monthly fee of 13€ for using always updated software. Updates are included and that justifies payment, everybody wants to make money don't we? If Adobe would not do this service to keep my software updated, I would that would be a different issue. As for the perpetuate license, that was a pretty stupid move I totally agree! So DXO or Lightroom? For me now its definitely Lightroom Classic, but hey, I always was a proud DXO user and if it weren't for these changes I probably never ever would have switched to Lightroom Classic.

Awesome work Marcus! This video is excellent! Keep up the great work!

Excellent photo BTW. Very captivating.

thanks you great guide.😀

I don't agree. DxO PhotoLab7 is old technique on new bottles. I bought it by accident and found out how bad the masking and the point-based editing works. To make the tool box match other raw editors you have to buy add-ons, and like PL7 they are not cheap. There's no way to regret and have your money back with DxO, unless you allow a technician to enter your computer. The worst part is the unqualified help board, where a clown with a concept list tries to divert your problem. The help forum is dominated of problems with different versions of the many software parts becoming incompatible. The free Darktable is a better raw editor than anything I have experienced with expensive alternatives like CaptureOne, Adobe's ACR, etc.

marcus, i cannot thank you enough for this video (and your entire series of videos) covering dxo photolab! you have a wonderful approach, and i've learned more from a few short videos than i have in hours of "hunting and pecking" (to use an old turn of phrase) to become familiar with this tool. keep up the great work, and i look forward to learning even more. :)

Just a note on noise reduction the main window only shows the high quality setting. For all deep prime settings a preview is shown in the loupe the actual noise reduction will only be applied when you export the image.

Recently moved to Mac, and away from Adobe. Had their All Apps plan. I'm new to PhotoLab. Took advantage of the 20% off special. I like it a lot. I wish it supported DNG files from my Pixel 8 Pro, but I have Affinity Photo, and it can open the DNGs. I found the video useful, and I hope you'll take time to do more. I think a lot of people leaving Adobe will end up using PhotoLab, and we can use some basic tutorials. Subscribed.

Thank you Marcus, this is very helpful 🍺

Naw, but nice advertising. I'll take Darktable, thank you, its open source.

Another helpful video that opens up PhotoLab 7 even more for me. I didn't know any of this. Your pace and presentation are great. Thanks for this, Marcus.

Thanks Marcus - great video tutorial - perfect pace and amount of detail. I've just started using the trial version of DxO PL with a new camera after a very long time away from photography. I've never edited RAW files before and I was a little overwhelmed to be honest. I've watched a few videos and it's starting to make more sense and with your video, I really liked the workflow. Great work!

No, it’s not… not for me. I hate Adobe, and if Dxo also was a DAM, it would be my choice. Dxo is the best raw processor but Capture One ingested my 32 GB Lightroom catalog and kept all my edits and collections, so years of work didn’t go to waste.

Thank you for this wonderful PhotoLab 7 demonstration. The pace and detailed explanations of the various tools and the results achieved were just right and very helpful. I will rewatch this again to get as much out of it as I can. I happened to come across this and subscribed to your channel before it was even near the end. Thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge of DXO PhotoLab. I look forward to seeing more from you.

As an enthusiast who loves DxO PhotoLab 7 this is one of the best videos that explains a well structured workflow. My only change is maybe getting the light right before colour - I thought this was the mainstream thought. Otherwise yours is very close to mine. Love the pace and detail. Have you any other DxO videos?

:) you could see the deep prime effect even though that is only available in that little prewiew window on the right.

Excellent video, the best I've seen so far on DxO PhotoLab. Just started using the free 30 day trial a week or so ago myself having used LR & PS for decades since their inception. Thanks again.

I downloaded it and am trying it out right now with my X-H2. It's definitely more full-featured than Fujifilm X Acquire, BUT one thing right away: No live view except when "Focus Area" is checked? That seems kind of lame: every other tethering app I've used (Canon, Nikon, Olympus) lets you preview what the camera is seeing. Or am I missing something?

Hows the latency for video

This the best video tutorial I’ve seen on Dehancer and I have watched many of them. Nice job!

why the switching form Adobe RGB to sRGB? :)

I wish Fuji would let us use this without having to connect the camera and with more user-friendly controls and above all that everything would flow faster (if the camera is not connected the software would be executed by the PC and it would surely flow better)

Thank you Marcus, great video.

Hi Marcus, that Nik Analog efex is quite powerful. Thank for showing us. By the way, I also have C1 but I am unable to incorporate Nik Collection 6 in my C1. Do you have a U Tube video to show how to incorporate Nik collection 6?

A very helpful video, thank you. What a beautiful model too.

Very helpful for me. THY a lot.

Hey Marcus!! I tried to install dehancer for capture one. I don't get it man !! 🤔 Looks so complicated

I like this software but I have searched for black background after starting the PMPlus, feature important for me. But I did not get this feature. Could you please to guide me to get that advantage. Thank you in advance

Thank you, Marcus, for this introduction to Dehancer! At the end of the video you say that with Dehancer you can achieve the film look but what exactly is the film look? I’m old enough and have shot film in the past when there was no digital yet but I find it really hard to remember what was so special about film or what was typical for film when compared to digital... Maybe you can briefly elaborate on this or even make a video about it? Thank you! Btw, I’m asking because I would not know what look to go for when using a software like Dehancer. You seem to have a clear vision of what the film look is.

This was a great video thankyou!

Dankeschön Markus for sharing your video!

Have you found Capture One's auto keystone feature useful?

Very good video my Brother!!!

I would love to be able to enjoy this content and give it a like, but since I don't understand your language, without subtitles this will not be possible, I suggest you activate the subtitles so that users of other languages and deaf people can enjoy the automatic translation, In this way you will reach more followers, have a good week, I am waiting for your response, and to be able to enjoy this material with the subtitles activated 😉🙌 // Me encantaría poder disfrutar de este contendido y darle un like, pero al no entender su idioma, sin los subtitulos esto no será posible, le sugiero activar los subtitulos para que los usuarios de otras lenguas y las personas sordas puedan disfrutar de la traducción automática, de esa forma llegará a más seguidores, que tenga una buena semana, quedo a la espera de su respuesta, y poder disfrutar de este material con los subtítulos activados 😉🙌

Did you notice an issue with the reds? Either it's my settings or Dehancer seems to oversaturate them

Good stuff man! Put me in the game 👏

great video keep creating!

is it possible to edit not in tiff but in original Raf format? thnx

Very helpful, thanks for this!

Awesome.. great video.