Adobe has just held its annual adobe MAX conference, and as part of the event it announced a slew of new updates across its product lines. This, of course included its Photography products, and all versions of Lightroom, Camera Raw and Photoshop have been updated. In this blog post, I’m going to cover a few of the key new features across the lineup.

DxO has released DxO PhotoLab 8, the latest version of its RAW image processing and correction software. This update includes several new tools and refinements aimed at providing greater control over the editing process.

DXO Pure Raw is a very interesting application. It’s primary purpose is noise reduction, and if you’ve heard of the software, removing noise from an image is probably what you most associate with the software. However, with version 4 they opened up a very interesting alternative use of the application. By allowing you to change the way the algorithm works, you can actually turn the noise reduction down and the detail recovery up, and the result can be a pretty impressive level of detail recovery on the right kind of image. I’ve been trying this a lot recently, and when it works well, I’m really impressed by the results.

Ever since Adobe switched to a subscription model many years ago, people have loved to hate them. They often don’t do themselves any favours in the PR department, either. And hot off the heels of their recent PR disaster with the badly worded revisions to their Terms and Conditions, they’re now being sued for the way they handle subscriptions bye the US government.

DXO has just announced the latest release of its popular NIK software collection. The new version features a range of updates across all of its applications, with some interesting new workflow options and a speed increase across the collection.

DXO has just released a new update for its PhotoLab Raw editing software. Photo Lab 7.6 Includes new features, new included LUTS and for a limited time is available at a reduced cost. This months Optics Module release includes 1400 new camera and lens combinations and adds support for new cameras such as the Sony A9III and the Hasselblad CFV.

Today, DXO announced the release of the latest version of Pure RAW, the company’s RAW pre-processing software. Version 4 adds some welcome new features including a new version of Deep Prime, DXO’s noise reduction and demosaicing technology, improved lens softness correction, and new workflow improvements. One of the most requested new features is that you now have the ability to control the amount of noise reduction through new advanced settings options.

Capture One has announced that the company is discontinuing the free tier of its software, Capture One express. The software will no longer be available to download after January 31st, 2024.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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)

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 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.

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.