I don’t want Lightroom doing any raw development as DXO’s is far better in my experience at extracting detail and handling any noise.

I use PL5 as a plugin in LR Classic to transfer over to PL5, apply edits like noise reduction, then export back RAW/DNG with PL5 edits to LR Library/catalogs.For all of my cameras (excluding my Q2M obviously) I open the raw first in DXO Photolab and do all my edits from there. I maintain my images mostly in LR catalogs ( and Adobe Cloud).

Ho do you organize your photos for when you are working with them on PL5? Are they also organized by Lightroom? I spend most of my time with adobe apps, but there are some tools in PL5 that make it worth my time to use on a regular basis, to include the excellent Deep Prime module results. In my case it was less cost to upgrade my previous PL license to the latest version than to pay full price for PureRaw 2. Nothing to miss and lots to gain with PL5 w/ LR plugin. I wanted t make sure I wasn't missing something. I've been using PhotoLab and its predecessor for a long time. I’m a long time user of DxO Photolabs, because I like it much better than other RAW converters.

You have far more control over DeepPRIME in Photolab 5 (Luminance slider, sharpening sliders).īesides Deep Prime you get the lens corrections as well.

From what I understand, PureRaw is just the Deep Prime module pulled out of PL5 as a standalone program.Įverything PureRAW can do can be done in DxO Photolab 5. Is that correct?Īs far as I know, correct. I believe that everything DXO PureRaw offers is included in DXO PhotoLab 5, so that there is no reason to get PureRaw if you own PhotoLab.

Dxo pureraw vs photolab