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DXO Black Friday Deals - Up to 50% off software and upgrades
All this week, DXO is offering up to 50% off new sales and upgrades for DxO PhotoLab, DxO PureRAW, Nik Collection, DxO FilmPack, and DxO ViewPoint. DxO’s photo editing software applications will be available at the best prices of the year from Monday, November 20 to November 27 (Cyber Monday). Click through for more details
DXO Launches Photo Lab 7 and Film Pack 7
DXO labs has today announced the release of the latest version of its Flagship Photo Processing software, DXO Phot Lab 7. This new version includes new colour calibration tools, LUT support, a new workflow for black and white images and some revisions to the way local adjustments work. Also announced today is a new version of DXO Film Pack, DXO’s film emulation software.
DXO Releases Nik Collection 6.3
DXO labs today announced the release of the latest version of its popular Nik Collection software suite. While it might sound like a point release, it actually contains some significant updates and marks a milestone for the software.
DXO releases DXO Pure Raw 3
DXO labs have released a new version of their noise reduction and raw preprocessing software, DXO PureRAW 3. Now in its third iteration, the software includes several new features and changes over the previous version.
Thoughts on Capture One’s Licensing Plans
In this post, I express my frustration with Capture One (the company, not the software), regarding recently announced changes to their licensing model for perpetual licences that will take effect in 2023. I express disappointment with this change, as I feel that it makes perpetual licences unattractive and forces customers to switch to a subscription, which I previously criticised for being overpriced. I also feel that the company's timing of the announcement, after the upgrade cycle for Capture One 23 had ended, left some customers feeling duped.
DXO Updates, Photo Lab 6.1 and Holiday Offer
Just a quick note to update you on some updates from DXO labs. They have announced a special discount for the holidays and also the addition of new DxO Optics Modules for the company’s software range, and the release of Photo Lab 6.1
DXO Offering up to 50% off on its Photos Software for Black Friday
Just a quick note to let you know that DXO labs are offering up to 50% off on the company’s photography software for Black Friday. The offer started yesterday and runs until November 21, 2022, and finishes at 11.59 pm local time on Monday, November 28, 2022. Here’s what’s available in the sale (from the press release)
Lightroom Classic 12: Major Upgrade - New AI Masking Tools & More - First Look at the New Features
Yesterday Adobe released Lightroom Classic version 12 along with the corresponding versions of Lightroom Desktop, and Photoshop Camera Raw. All of these feature some significant improvements to masking and other new features. For the purposes of this post, though, I’m only going to talk about Lightroom Classic.
DXO Announces DXO Photo Lab 6 and DXO View point 4
DXO today announced new a new version of the company’s flagship Raw editing Software: DXO Photo Lab, as well as a new update to the company’s lens and distortion correction application, DXO Viewpoint.
PSA: Nik Collection Offer - Save 25%
Just a quick note to let you know about an offer our affiliate partner DXO is having at the moment. They are currently offering 25% off the NIK collection of plug-ins. I’m a little late on this though, and the offer is ending soon on the 14th September.
DXO Pure Raw 2.1 released. Native Apple Silicon and Support for new Cameras
DXO labs have just released an update for DXO Pure Raw 2. Version 2.1 is now fully native on Apple silicon, and leverages Apple’s M1 and M2 processors. This release also adds support for the latest Canon Eos R series of cameras, and adds some improvements to the batch processing workflow.
Reverting to the old tool Tab Layout in Capture One 22 15.3
When Capture One released the latest version (15.3) one of the key “features” was a re-designed layout of the tools and tool tabs. This seems to have been done for consistency with the iPad version of Capture One, but some people may still prefer the old layout. Luckily, you can revert to the old style arrangement of the tools, although there are still some changes. In this post, I’ll show you how to do this.
DXO Releases Film Pack 6.3
DXO Labs has just announced the release of Film Pack 6.3. This update brings new camera support, is now native on Apple M1 and has some user interface improvements.
Cool Feature of the Nik Software Suite – Copy and Paste Nik Settings directly in Lightroom
With the recent release of the Nik 5 plug-in collection], I have been using the software a bit more lately, and one of the cool things in the suite, is something that you may not be aware of. I don’t think this is actually a new feature in version 5, as I believe this was in 4 too, but there is some pretty impressive Lightroom integration with the suite. Specifically, you can copy and apply settings for the Nik plug-ins to other images directly in Lightroom.
Nik Collection 5 released
DXO Labs today announced the release of Nik Collection 5. The suite of Plug-ins contains major upgrades to ColorEfex and AnalogEfex which include a new user interface as well as anew grain tool and the companies clear view technology. The suite also now comes with DXO Photolab 5 Essential, bringing Raw editing and DXO’s renowned optics correction to the suite.