DXO PhotoLab 7 (A great Alternative to Adobe Lightroom)

[@DonalMcDonnell]

Best tutorial I’ve seen, thanks for sharing.

[@LashahVideo]

Thanks for watching

[@thormusique]

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!

[@LashahVideo]

Thank you for watching

[@hywel3143]

Really helpful, thank you!

[@LashahVideo]

@@hywel3143 thank you for watching

[@touchedbynature5445]

Very Informative And Helpful, Very Well Presented. Many Thanks For Sharing 🇬🇧

[@LashahVideo]

Thanks for watching

[@MedusaJellyFish300]

Another wonderful, wonderful, video, im really enjoying your photography channel. Merci 🌺🌻🌺

[@LashahVideo]

Thank you for watching

[@greger984]

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.

[@LashahVideo]

@@greger984 thank you for watching, subscribing and the kind comments.

[@sabergo1]

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.

[@LashahVideo]

Thank you for watching

[@HadleyHope]

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.

[@c73w]

Wondering how to edit highlights, mid tones, and shadows colours each alone?

[@dbenedict357]

Excellent photo BTW. Very captivating.

[@LashahVideo]

Thanks for watching

[@HudShot]

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!

[@LashahVideo]

Thank you so much for watching.

[@benejpocock]

Great video and a nicely paced walkthrough. I've come back to photography recently and am looking for a RAW converter/editor. I don't want anything with a subscription as I'll get limited time to use it. Seeing this may have just made my mind up. Thank you Marcus!

[@LashahVideo]

Thank you for watching :)

[@julia-ir4wg]

thank you for sharing. i was looking for a program that would work with my hasselblad since capture one won't work with it and phocus is just not good enouth. i found your video. and this will work for me. so many thanks for a very well done tutorial.

[@LashahVideo]

@@julia-ir4wg thank you for the warm comments and for watching.

[@geoffreykingston4866]

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?

[@LashahVideo]

@@geoffreykingston4866 thank you for watching and the kind comment. Much appreciated. I have done other videos on DXO (earlier versions).

[@c73w]

Isn’t there a way to convert the screen to monochrome like in lightroom while choosing the details of sharpening and texture I don’t know what is it called

[@wadimrybalchenko2034]

Thank you

[@LashahVideo]

You're welcome

[@BPetiBP]

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

[@LashahVideo]

@@BPetiBP here is a link that explains how the machine learning, actually works. www.dxo.com/technology/demosaicing/

[@careylymanjones]

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.

[@LashahVideo]

@@careylymanjones DXO PhotoLab 7 supports DNG File. Here is a link: support.dxo.com/hc/en-us/articles/6941915638045-Which-DNG-files-are-supported-by-DxO-PhotoLab-as-input

[@careylymanjones]

@@LashahVideo Sadly, PL doesn't support the DNG files from the Pixel 8 Pro (or most recent smartphones). After I posted my comment, I found a thread in the DxO support forums, where it was explained that DxO doesn't consider most smartphone DNG files to be true RAW files, and doesn't support them. The consensus was to edit the DNG file in another program, and save it to TIFF, with a P3 profile. PL CAN open that, but the advanced denoise functions are disabled, and of course, no lens corrections, as DxO doesn't have optical modules for smartphone lenses. It still does a very nice job with my mirrorless camera RAW files. Just wish it could do the smartphone files.

[@c73w]

So PureRaw is now missing 😂

[@sm-journey8281]

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.

[@LashahVideo]

I have been using Skylum editing software from back when they were called "MacPhun." It's a great editing software. but horrible DAM (Digital Asset Management). I often recommend Luminar Neo to user who are using Photo Mechanic (to manage their photos).

[@marsrii4372]

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.

[@LashahVideo]

@@marsrii4372 DXO is a DAM (Digital Asset Manager) and a very good one. I will do a video on the DAM features of DXO.

[@HaraldWalker]

How is C1 handling larger collections (50-100k) nowadays? I stopped using it years ago as the DAW part was unbearable slow and buggy. The editor of DXO is great but the DAW part is too basic for my needs.

[@LashahVideo]

@@HaraldWalker The application that I’ve used that can manage really large photo collections is Photo Mechanic Pro (it can handled up to 1 million) and it really fast. I never keep more than 60,000 photo in my collection got C1 and Lightroom because over that amount it start to slow down. Lightroom has the best archival system of the two.

[@marsrii4372]

@@HaraldWalker I imported my Lroom cat with 70k plus photos into Cap One, and it took 3 hours. it kept all my collections, keywords, color tags intact and it seems no slower than Lightroom. Of course I lost all but the most basic edits. The raw editor works similarly. I will use the cloud at work to output my edits into tifs. It’s a steep price to pay, but I had to be free from adobe’s ransomware…

[@drchtct]

Well they will go to waste until you pay Adobe every single month for the rest of your life.

[@janedagger]

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

[@LashahVideo]

This is not advertising; I'm not affiliated with DXO in any capacity. It's an honest review of a mainstream photography software application with good customer and technical support. If you are already using Darktable (open-source software, aka free) and it works for you, that's cool. But your statement would be the equivalent of me saying, "Windows and Mac OS are all hype; I use Linux." Really! There are sites and videos for those statements, but it's not applicable to every video that discusses software options that differ from what you use.