A few years ago I was photographing over the Grand Canyon from inside a Eurocopter and regulations did not allow for the doors to be open.

One of my favourite features is Clearview, a function that I have not found elsewhere. It therefore does have a learning curve to some extent and there are tutorials available to help you with learning the tool. You actually are doing the editing yourself, not just whacking the image with someone else’s generic idea. You can edit with these tools, but it is absolutely not the primary UI.ĭXO PhotoLab is best suited to the more serious editor. This is very Instagram user friendly, and ideal for those who really don’t want to actually edit and just want to slap a look on a picture and be done with it. Their user focus is built around the use of presets. There are a number of Lightroom develop alternatives out in the market such as Skylum’s Luminar and ON1 Photo RAW. In fact, that may be a minor downfall for DXO PhotoLab, although not in my case. Lightroom CC is rather brain dead for serious editors. Note that I am talking about Lightroom Classic CC here, not the web oriented Lightroom CC designed and built predominantly for those using their phones to take pictures. Lightroom is rather boggy at 8GB and you need 16GB of memory to get decent performance out of the current V8 of Lightroom Classic CC. The product runs on any processor from an Atom 2 on up and is usable with only 4GB of memory.

What it gives up in feature breadth, it makes up in speed and performance.

Dxo photolab 2 video tutorials