![]() ![]() I hope they sell gazillions of licenses for it. But the sense I get from the PureRAW release is DxO understand their core strength and have done the industry (and themselves) a huge favour by releasing this product. Maybe PL5 will surprise me, I don’t know plans, and plans may change anyway. Today’s quick test suggests that hurdle can be efficiently addressed by PureRAW. I do still need to do some further research as each time I have looked at ON1 in the past I have crashed up against their RAW conversion and stopped investing too much time. I feel confident that if the RAW conversion in PhotoLab was similar to that in ON1 I would have switched a while ago. (Again, the highlights slider has been discussed at length.) Most obviously for me is the DAM feels underdone (a topic which has been discussed at length elsewhere in these forums), but also after coming from Lightroom-Aperture-Lightroom-Luminar I still don’t feel comfortable with many of the basic adjustments. I’ve made a choice to look at a new way of working because I do have issues with significant aspects of PL4. For me there is absolutely no need for PureRaw. #DXO PHOTOLAB ELITE CRACK UPGRADE#If I switch to ON1, which is odds on likely at this point, then I will of course retain PL4 and maybe it will have a role for those borderline shots that do need some tweaking of DeepPRIME or lens module parameters (and indeed I have not tested PureRAW on noise yet), but I will think very carefully before paying for any upgrade to PL5. So no there is not a need for PhotoLab 4 Elite users to purchase PureRAW, and I have zero concern with people using PhotoLab to achieve the same things, but there is definitely value in using PureRAW from a workflow point of view. So I’m going to take another look at ON1, which I liked a lot about, but did not have RAW conversion anywhere near as good as PhotoLab. Bringing up the compare mode between the two versions it is perhaps hard to tell on “natural” shots, but my usual fare of aircraft shows a night and day difference. ![]() I’ve run a test folder of images through PureRAW and opened them alongside the originals in ON1. Meanwhile you haven’t built a pointless database if the intention was never to load up the images for more work in PhotoLab. Or… launch PureRAW (5 seconds), drag the images from anywhere (Finder/Explorer or your DAM), 2 clicks, and you’re done. Using PL4 Elite, launch PL4 (11 seconds), navigate to the folder in the sidebar (which I’ve never liked the scale of), select your photos, apply a preset that contains your default noise and sharpness etc, potentially change any of the several sliders in those per image, select all the photos again if you did anything to any individual, Export to Disk and pick the preset to export DNGs, then click Go. Let’s for a moment leave cost out of the picture… There is something to be said for the black box approach. ![]() In that you will have to (or want to) do this for every image. The ability to tweak settings can be seen as a downside, too. There would not seem to be any need for users of PhotoLab 4 Elite to get this since everything PureRaw does can already be done in PhotoLab with the addition of being able to tweak settings ![]()
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