All tagged PureRAW

DXO launches Pure Raw 6 with a long sought after feature. A first look at the new release.

DXO launches Pure Raw 6 with a long sought after feature. A first look at the new release.

Thomas Fitzgerald
DxO, Software

DXO have launched the latest upgrade to their RAW pre-processing software, DXO Pure RAW 6. If you’re unfamiliar with the application, it basically lets you convert Raw files to DNG using DXO’s technology, including the companies excellent noise reduction software, Deep Prime. It does so in a way that maintains edit-ability and so you can use it to work with software such as Lightroom or Capture One, but bypass their raw conversion engine to use DXO’s instead. The latest version adds a new version of DeepPrime for Beyer sensors, adds a feature people have been wanting since version one, and another new tool that was quite unexpected but works surprisingly well. Read on for the details…

If you prefer the old DNG based Lightroom Enhance to the 14.4 method, then here are two possible solutions.

If you prefer the old DNG based Lightroom Enhance to the 14.4 method, then here are two possible solutions.

Thomas Fitzgerald
DxO, Software

I know I’ve been covering the topic of the changes Adobe made to the old “enhance” workflow a lot lately, but there seems to be quite a bit of questions and confusion around the topic. When I first made a video about it, I knew some people would have an issue with the way Lightroom now works, but I wasn’t really expecting such a backlash. On hindsight, I probably should have, but anyway. As some people really still want to be able to batch process Denoise or Raw Details in their images to a DNG, there are really only two solutions that I can think of.

How to Extract Detail from an Image and Enhance Texture with DXO PureRAW 4

How to Extract Detail from an Image and Enhance Texture with DXO PureRAW 4

Thomas Fitzgerald
DxO, Technique, Software

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.