DXO officially announces PhotoLab 8, and its available now

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Paris, France: DxO Labs, for two decades the pioneering force in photo editing tools, today announces the release of DxO PhotoLab 8, its complete RAW image processing and correction software. Version 8 features the new DeepPRIME XD2s, the second generation of the most advanced noise reduction and detail extraction technology on the market. It now

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koenkooi said:
I’m curious what the XD2s denoiser delivers over its predecessor, DxO hasn’t updated https://www.dxo.com/technology/deepprime/ yet.

I’ll save the 30 day trial for my fall trip, I hope pureRAW 5 gets announced in time for black friday discounts :)
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For the record I love PhotoLab.

As for the XD2 update. I was privy to the release candidate version of the software and I think I have seen some improvements in detail after noise reduction is applied. I need more time with it though, sometimes we see what we want to see. I just installed the official release and will actually go through some head to head testing with some midrange ISO images.

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How good is printing from PhotoLab, without using explicitly Nik Sharpener for output sharpening? I'm quite pleased with Lightroom workflow and results, but looking for an alternative.
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I hae printed with PhotoLab before, but I wouldn't say the experience is any better or any worse than Lightroom. Now, I don't really do much in the way of output sharpening because I use a lot of textured papers.
 
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Canon Rumors Guy said:
For the record I love PhotoLab.

As for the XD2 update. I was privy to the release candidate version of the software and I think I have seen some improvements in detail after noise reduction is applied. I need more time with it though, sometimes we see what we want to see. I just installed the official release and will actually go through some head to head testing with some midrange ISO images.
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Same here. So much so, I was just about to stop using the R5ii and go back to my now back-up of the R5.
 
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Canon Rumors Guy said:
For the record I love PhotoLab.

As for the XD2 update. I was privy to the release candidate version of the software and I think I have seen some improvements in detail after noise reduction is applied. I need more time with it though, sometimes we see what we want to see. I just installed the official release and will actually go through some head to head testing with some midrange ISO images.



I hae printed with PhotoLab before, but I wouldn't say the experience is any better or any worse than Lightroom. Now, I don't really do much in the way of output sharpening because I use a lot of textured papers.
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What do you consider midrange ISO?
 
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Does PL8 support WYSIWYG yet? My biggest peeve with PL6 was that denoising wasn't visible before export and the most used tools would only be visible if you zoomed in. I dislike LRs "let's generate a huge DNG" approach to denoising, but at least all the edits you do are visible without jumping through hoops.

For me, PureRAW does a much better job, the before/after slider is great at showing, spoiler alert, the before and after :)
 
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Sporgon said:
? Could you give more detail ?
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It suits my needs better than any RAW converters and combination of software. It removes more noise and squeezes out more detail, and I find it fast and easy to use for the actual processing and culling of a large number of images. If you are not cropping much and the images don't need much processing I guess it's not such a big deal.
 
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I've been using PLE since v1. Just over 6 yrs now. Its great software, While I don't do much printing with it, the times I have always worked as expected. Like others mentioned I would not expect there to be ground breaking differences between it or Lr for printing

I started using it strictly because I had a bunch of 3rd party glass Canon DPP didn't have lens profiles for and I'd rather not rent software. (That topic has been exhausted) so to each their own. I'm on v7 of PLE and FP now. I might get 8 or just wait for 9.
 
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3200 and below. Though I should do 6400 as well... I try hard not to get up there.
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I typically use Deep Prime XD starting at 6400. I’d love to not get up there, but when you need to stop action without great lighting (e.g., high school night lighting), and ‘use a faster lens’ isn’t a viable option (already at 300/2.8), you need higher ISOs.
 
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neuroanatomist said:
I typically use Deep Prime XD starting at 6400. I’d love to not get up there, but when you need to stop action without great lighting (e.g., high school night lighting), and ‘use a faster lens’ isn’t a viable option (already at 300/2.8), you need higher ISOs.
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What is the absolute highest ISO you feel Deep Prime XD can handle without becoming artificial looking?
 
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What is the absolute highest ISO you feel Deep Prime XD can handle without becoming artificial looking?
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For me, it depends on the use case. If I’m downsampling an image to post on the Internet, I will go up to 25600. For images, I’m going to print, I don’t typically go above 3200 (and therefore I don’t use deep prime).
 
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I've tried 10,000 and it was definitely more than PhotoLab 7 could do and still look like a photo [edit: in my opinion]. I'm hoping this version can handle it, but even so, how long will it take to process on older hardware?
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What is the absolute highest ISO you feel Deep Prime XD can handle without becoming artificial looking?
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I have on occasion gone up to 20k and 32k. Here is a Dunnock at iso 20k and a Kestrel at 32k. Both are 100% crops (1 px = 1 px of original) and are not the full image downscaled.

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AlanF said:
I have on occasion gone up to 20k and 32k. Here is a Dunnock at iso 20k and a Kestrel at 32k. Both are 100% crops (1 px = 1 px of original) and are not the full image downscaled.

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They look much better than my results andI don't think I would know you used if you hadn't told us. As always your photos are fantastic
 
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I love the workflow of DXO PL7 and feel the masking whenever I need to use it looks much more natural than in LR. I think the luminance masking works so much better in DXO than in LR. Just returned from Greenland and support for my R5MII was not available from DXO but was in LR so I ended up using the R5 much of the time because it was so painful having to resort to LR when I used the MII. I have to say, I haven\'t printed from DXO yet, I\'ve just put my files on a thumb drive and used the print module in LR, but I\'ll have to give DXO a go. The only thing that prevents me from completely giving up my LR/PS subscription is I still do occasional layering compositions and it took DXO 6 wks to support the R5MII after I switched and if I hadn\'t had my R5 or LR, I would have been in a world of hurt during that time.
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