

If you adjust any of the tone, colour or non ‘optical’ parts of the image in DxO, those adjustments will not be sent back to Lightroom. It is like a ‘half-cooked’ RAW file that has had noise reduction and optical corrections applied (the best bits of PhotoLab in my opinion) but leaves the rest up to Lightroom. dng file that is send back to Lightroom is a ‘demosaiced’ RAW file with no colour, tone or other corrections baked into it. dng file back to Lightroom for tone and colour adjustments. With the latest version of PhotoLab 4 I can send the RAW file to DxO, apply ONLY noise reduction and optical corrections before sending a. I would usually spend a lot of time in DxO trying to get a final result that I was happy with. Previously if I wanted to take advantage of PhotoLab’s noise reduction algorithms I would need to send my image from Lightroom to DxO and fully process the image with DxO before sending a fully edited TIFF file back to Lightroom to finish.

With PhotoLab 4, DxO have introduced a new feature that allows me to get the best of both worlds. Probably because I’m much more experience with Lightroom. However, I still use, and greatly prefer Adobe Lightroom to manage my photo collection and I find that I can get better tone, colour and overall ‘look’ of my images with Lightroom when compared to PhotoLab.

(DeepPRIME is PhotoLab 4’s #1 new feature) It is now my go-to RAW converter when dealing with noisy images. When DxO released the latest version of their PhotoLab software, there was much fanfare surrounding the DeepPRIME noise reduction software.
