The tonal contrast adjustments that get added to DXO when you have Filmpack are very beneficial and provide much needed functionality and should really be in DXO-Photolab by default. That way, you can enjoy the best of both programs.īiggest problem with DXO-Photolab is that you really need to add Viewpoint and Filmpack to get the most out of it. To the OP, I suggest that you run noisy raw files through DxO first, applying only Deep Prime and lens corrections. However, I do love Deep Prime for very noisy images and would choose it over Topaz DeNoise-AI every time. I am a Capture One user, which I prefer to DxO for a variety of reasons that I don't wish to go into in this thread. They're much easier to use than the equivalent features in a conventional, layer-based pixel editor, but not as powerful. It's a powerful, fully non-destructive capability, and the adjustment layers take almost no space to store. The set of local adjustments can be copied from an image and pasted to one or more others. You can apply many different adjustments in each such layer, and they can be named, duplicated, inverted, turned on or off, and have their opacity varied. Yes, each local adjustment is a masked adjustment layer, and there are five types (plus two types of healing/cloning layers). So you can adjust on top of your previous local adjustments. You are right DxO don't have layers in the traditional way, but in a way all local adjustments are layers. On1’s user interface is not very user friendly and takes way more time to master. When working with “Image Layers”, I’ll use On1 2022, but each program has it’s own Pros and Cons. I also use the Topaz suite of programs with Exposure. I do however, enjoy the Exposure User Interface which is amazingly user friendly and bug free. I think exposure does a wonderful job, but they should catch up with respect to built in AI noise software and the ability to work with “Image Layers” instead of only Adjustment Layers. I tried it a while back, but consequently, decided to stick with Exposure. However if it is not 50% off it is not worth the cost to me for the few images I’d use it for.įrom what I recall, DXO does not do Layers. Here’s my final conclusion - If it goes on Black Friday 50% sale I'll pick it up as a good learning tool, and for occasional landscapes. In the end, I could only use DXO if I was to use X7 as the host program, but I could happily use X7 with Topaz and nothing else. Keywording is marginally better in X7 but searching, filtering and collections are MUCH better, and the ability to view and compare up to 6 images at a time are invaluable for culling especially if you have been using burst mode and have 25 almost identical pictures of the same bird and need to choose the best. You get film emulations, perspective control, borders, overlays, creative vignetting and colour filters all built right, and the photo browser is in a different league altogether. Where Exposure X7 really beats DXO is that it doesn’t require add-on “packs”. DXO’s masking is pretty good as well though not as flexible as X7. To get a sense of the whole photo you have to export to disk, take a look and re-adjust, export again etc.Įxposure X7 masking makes using Topaz Mask AI unnecessary, it is that good. One issue I have with DXO is that some adjustments can’t be seen unless the image is zoomed to 75% which I find very inconvenient. In fact I used X7 as the target to learn DXO! Other than certain landscapes, Exposure X7 with Denoise AI is equivalent or better for almost everything else - portraits, macros, close ups, street photos- simply less work and more intuitive workflow to get good results. Not a bad reason to get it though, I really did learn a lot from using it. Having the DXO as a target has improved my processing in X7 but in the end the results are better in X7 and DXO is a good learning tool. In order to learn best practices I tried processing landscapes in DXO with deep prime, then processing in Exposure X7 and Topaz Denoise AI and getting BETTER results. The de-fishing tool is the best I’ve ever used. Some landscapes I can get equivalent results with Exposure X7 but it requires more work to do it. SOME landscapes have a better 3-dimensional feel to them. There are 2 areas where it is better than Exposure X7 with Topaz Denoise AI and Sharpen AI. My standard of comparison is Exposure X7 with Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI and Mask AI. I’ve spent a month with the trial version of DXO Photolab 5, really trying to learn it well. Exposure X7 with Topaz DenoiseAI -"Clear" module
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