But I imagine that there are a lot of us out there who are generally happy with Lightroom and Photoshop and, even more importantly, don’t want to make the huge time investment needed to completely overhaul our workflow. If you’ve done so and are happy moving away from Adobe that’s great. I can understand that desire, but I have no interest in switching over to a completely different catalog and workflow system. For this reason, some photographers have been looking at full-scale Lightroom replacements such as Capture One, DxO PhotoLab, On1, and others. Among them is Lightroom’s difficulty in extracting the best colors, noise profiles, and sharpness from our RAW files.
He (PhotoJoseph) did a few sessions of each of 3 topics and today said that DxO will take the best session of each and post it on there website (presumably via YouTube) in a week or so.Though I’m a longtime Lightroom user (I even produced the popular e-book and video series Lightroom for the Nature Photographer with my good friend Keith Bauer), it’s common knowledge that Lightroom has some limitations. There are two more sessions (on Nik and B&W) scheduled for tomorrow, but they may already be full, go to DxO’s website for signup information. I just finished watching a DxO-sponsored webinar by PhotoJoseph, he has a total of 3 different DxO Photolab and Nik webinars which he did this week. Anyone have suggestions for resources? Free is obviously preferred, but I can spend some money if the content is legit.
Which leads me to this: I haven't seen tons of tutorials or books available on how to best use the software.
Admittedly I haven't really learned the software in a methodical way. Anyway, I've been dabbling with it but so far haven't really seen any massive benefit compared to Lightroom. I'd been told that PhotoLab is particularly good for M4/3 files due to its noise reduction. I purchased DxO PhotoLab 2 (and the Nik Collection) on that massive Black Friday sale. If it is was a tear-off menu or palette you could do this much more quickly - also, although you can reset the filter options to the default, you can't turn them on and off or "un-reset" them as you can in LR.ĭoes anyone use a separate program from LR or DXO for culling images to use with DXO? If so, what? I have noticed that PhotoMechanic does have the compare function, but it is very expensive to just use for culling. With that filter it seems that to go from the default showing all ranked or unranked by star pictures to only showing 5-stars you have to make 4 menu selections to unselect all the other starred options. Nonetheless, am I missing something else?
Most of all the "C" key compare function, also the N-key, showing multiple photos full screen - and the filtering! - I just realized that the Search function is really good and can take the place of filtering for the star rankings. The first thing I miss from LR is the viewing & filtering options. Just found the DXO forum with a search, the I hadn't noticed browsing web-site -Īnd there are more tutorials - non-video tutorials, that I like better, in the top-most post there: I do like the noise reduction although it only gets done when you export photos. and haven't found the video tutorials enjoyable.