www.dxo.com £115/$129 (£69/$79 upgrade)
While many swear by Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom in terms of raw processing they aren't actually the best tools around. Adobe's raw engine does a good job with colour profiles, Al masking, tonal adjustments and basic lens corrections, but it isn't the best software for noise reduction. And while Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop may be among the best photo-editing software applications you can get, but they aren't perfect especially for editing raw files.
Raw editing is PureRAW 3's speciality. Its lens correction profiles tackle global lens sharpness issues but also edge softness, all through DXO's correction profiles, which have been developed in-house for tens of thousands of camera-and-lens combinations. It also uses DeepPRIME XD Al-powered noise reduction and detail enhancement to produce spectacular results - the worse the original raw file, the more dramatic the transformation.
However, there are no editing tools in PureRAW 3. For that, you can use your regular software, such as Lightroom. PureRAW 3 is simply a batch-processing tool for producing higher-quality raw files. DxO claims DeepPRIME XD can produce up to 2.5 stops of improvement in noise control, but everything we've seen makes that look like a pretty conservative claim.
Key features
DxO PureRAW 3 works in a simple way. You feed it a batch of raw files and it processes them into high-quality linear DNG files that behave like regular raw files in your software, but with DxO's corrections applied.
This story is from the June 29, 2023 edition of Photography week.
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