Photolab 8 looks great. But such a disappointment that they still don’t allow previewing of the contents of sub-folders. It’s a baffling oversight for such a well thought-out application.

Photolab 8 looks great. But such a disappointment that they still don’t allow previewing of the contents of sub-folders. It’s a baffling oversight for such a well thought-out application.

This is particularly GREAT advice, since I just got word from Photolab (ticket #501046) that “they don’t have any information regarding teathering and DxO Photolab 8” 😏 I’ll send a link to this video! Now it’s only a question about Sony’s Control Monitor app (which replaced Imaging Edge) supports Live View…

Thanks for a very informative series on PL8 so far. XD2 is incomparably better than XD. I gave up on XD early as it tended to look nasty, especially for people photos. Deep Prime is still amazing, and it's great now to have a choice of two excellent NR functions.

I like DXO (using PL7 a lot) and have a trial version of PL8. I see no reason to update at this time with my current PC. ACDSee 2025 does a comparable noise reduction at speeds 5-10 times faster than PL8 ony older PC. Comparing an image side by side I see little difference.

I use Fujifilm. And Photolab 6. Trying the new noise reduction, 6 vs 8. Exported 10 images. Compared very carefully. Absolutely no difference. Rechecked to see if they were really from the two different versions… yep. No difference…

Once again, thank you for always sharing your wonderful knowledge. I love your videos 📹 😍 ❤️

Thanks for the heads up. I enjoy your videos very much. Sadly, the code doesn't apply to upgrades and the new denoising is not ready for Fuji RAW files. So, I think I skip this upgrade.

When are the new demosaic and noise reduction tools coming to DxO Pure RAW? Presumably, DxO Pure RAW 5? I find Photolab far too cluncky yo use as an everyday editor ... dream come true when they added the best bits to a simple, stand-alone app in Pure RAW.

Well done video! Thinking I might go back and re-edit some night sky photos I processed with PS6 a few years ago (7 wasn't enough better to bother)...

Thanks for that detailed explanation. Well worth watching.

Thanks a lot. But when in Fujifilm system?

Another consideration - if you are shooting a LOT of teathered shots - you are writing to the laptop’s SSD (rather than downloading to an external SSD or HDR) and - deleting - from a laptop’s SSD requires that you run tools to recover that drive space (ineffectively so Apple can sell more hardware 🤬) so there is a trade-off down the line in being able to see your work immediately on a nice monitor… (But, at least, it’s not an iPhone where can never “get back” used SSD space… unless you REFORMAT the phone!!!)

I can already see that Sony’s Imaging Edge software comes into play… An issue for Alpha One users stuck on the camera’s 1.32 version… as subsequent firmware updates this year have either broken the Wi-Fi connection or BRICKED cameras! And - the latest version of Imaging Edge is not executable w/o the camera being at 2.02 - which Sony is still not acknowledging as a PROBLEM 🤬

Just sent an inquiry to Photolab about teathering with my Sony A1 I’m looking to use Version 8 with - either - my MacBook M1 Pro or my Asus OLED (as I’m not sure which will give me the best color, performance… and mobility) FYI - was a Nikon shooter going back to the 80s - but now I shoot 90% video and their Z6 / Atomos “Filmmaker’s Kit” was a bust as they never got Apple to support their ProRes in FCPX… so had to switch to Sony $$$ but I still plan to shoot stills on the A1 and A9iii for high sync’d flash)

This tool alone was worth the USD109 upgrade cost. I hadn't realized that the tone picker would also let me drag the point on the curve up and down - thanks for that one!

good video.. but i thought... DxO PhotoLab is the Only thing you need... I have a Canon R5c... but it seems you need a "Middle App" to connect your Camera and Dxo App is there another way.. besides.. Cascable... WHICH IS AN AMAZING TETHERING APP

Hello, and thank you again for this wonderful video showing how awesome Photolab is, but I have one tiny question. When using the compare tool and you click on the "Compare tool" do you need to hold on the mouse to keep seen the effect or just one click to show the effect and click again to show again the comparison because in my case I click on the compare tool but it only shows the comparison for one microsecond and I need to click and hold the click to keep sewn the comparison of the before and after, thank you ❤❤

How about a vid on subject masking. So far I haven't been able to select a animal with the brush tool auto mask. LrC masking seems to be much more intuitive.

👍 for the new format! I really appreciate how you come at editing with a bit of ‘old school’ darkroom approach (writing as an oldie who learnt his craft on film before there was even autofocus!)

This preview is very helpful and informative. Thanks.

No support for HEIF in 2024! Thats a deal breaker. JPEG is 30 year old technology.

Thanks for the examples!

Like the video, I was just editing an image with a weird shadow over one part of the skin. I can't wait to try and correct it with this tool. Something weird. The video went out of focus from about six minutes to about 6:50.

That's a very good and useful overview of improvements found in DxO8! Thanks for that. From the webiste, I had not yet gotten a very good feel for what was really new and improved, and how useful those improvements would be. Performance improvements are most welcome, since performance was for me always one of the weak spots of DxO Photolabs.

I am expecting this new version!!!

Thanks for the great preview, to this great version of PhotoLab8

I wonder why DXO seem to adopt UI elements which appear to use the philosophy of "lets see how LR, C1 etc handle compare, now lets do it differently and make it as clunky as possible". It's almost painful to watch you demo what should be a very simple process.

Interesting choice to talk about the software but not actually show it.

Thank you, this was very informative.

Un vídeo muy interesante sobre las novedades de PL. La idea de hacer una serie de pequeños tutoriales de cada novedad es una muy buena idea.

Thanks for the preview.

Can the new enhanced curves tool be applied/used with JPG images?

Really like the improvement in the tone curve. I use it a lot. However, dealing with skin tones is a pain. Sometime it make the skin to orange.

terrible video ,

Let's just say this video would be much easier to follow if it actually had an audio track.

Question: I need to crop to a specific aspect ratio of 3000x2216 dpi but the custom aspect ratio cropping option is not located where I saw it on this video. I’m using DXOphoto lab 7 build 64. Not sure where to find it ! . My options start with original, uncontrained, and ends on clear custom ratios . No custom aspect ratio available

I just downloaded Photolab 7, and the vignette tool was my biggest hang up for maybe not purchasing (I use very slight vignettes a lot), and I have no use for Filmpack, so I didn't want to spend the extra money. I wish the vignette tool were included for times when I have to do a lot of speed editing, but the methods in this video will actually work better than the vignette tool when doing portraits, which is enough to get me away from LR. I REALLY hope software companies are paying attention to all the complaints about the giant. Right NOW is a great time to try to scoop up a lot of unhappy LR customers. I shoot 40,000 pictures a year, and I have been really wanting to find an alternative to LR and Capture One, and as far as I can see, I will be purchasing PL7 at the end of my trail. Thanks for posting this video!!

Many thanks for this very nice and helpful teaching. Bravo !

Great Tip. The same trick can be useful for sunsets, to make them a little warmer if needed

That is a really interesting approach. I look forward to trying it out for myself. Thank you!

good to see you back. Great tip.

Welcome back!

Top tip. Thanks for sharing.

Hello world. May I ask the following? If I use DxO raw and then export (I feel its import) into DxO photolab7 to do detailed work, do I need to assign the General > Correction settings > 6? No correction for RAW images, as well as checking the Automatically use superRAW noise reduction for DxO ONE Super RAW images and Automatically use Camera rendering if supported. I may have overegged the above question. If the corrections are already done in Raw, do you need to turn them off in Photolab 7 to prevent them doubling up? I hope that that is clear. Thank you to anyone who may respond.

Just the sort of Nerd that makes the world go around. We need more people like you.

I wish you could make presets on the local adjustment brush 😢

Really great thanks! Would you recommend buying the film pack package? I'm not really into old film simulations, while I love some classic ones. But the package seems to add some interesting options on Photolab (fine contrast, split toning, vignette effect, etc). Do you think it's worth it?

I am happy with NIK 6 the upgrading too expensive

This is still so slow and clunky. With Lightroom, hit “c” for crop, and “x” to flip the crop orientation. 😕