It also has extensive editing tools for optimising images, and local adjustments inherited from DxO’s acquisition of the Nik Collection. RAW processing and lens corrections are only a part of what PhotoLab does. DxO PhotoLab 6 is designed to offer the best RAW processing and lens corrections available, with state of the art noise reduction and powerful non-destructive editing and retouching tools. It uses DxO’s proprietary RAW demosaicing and processing process alongside lab-generated automatic lens correction profiles and new DeepPRIME XD processing technology to produce the best results from RAW files you’re likely to see. The problem with several thousand PEF files from my older Pentax cameras not being recognised was only the last straw.DxO PhotoLab 6 is both a RAW processing and lens correction tool and a powerful non-destructive photo editor. Now, if this is the work of engineers, as Pat91 suggested, then that reminds me of the old joke about the three ways of ruining a company: gambling (fastest), women (most fun) and engineers (safest).

When I tried to use the indexing function to speed things up, PL4 gobbled up practically all my RAM and then apparently resorted to swapping data to and from the hard drive until the total memory usage indicated by my activity monitor reached several hundred GB and the whole system became totally sluggish. Might have to do with the fact that LR6 creates catalogs with thumbnails and the two others don’t. Yet, my old Lightroom 6 - in spite of its age and various deficiencies - still runs circles around both on the same machine. Worse still than ON1 2021 which by itself is quite bad enough.

I have to admit I was shocked about the speed. And no, before anyone suggests otherwise, my computer is a 2 month old Mac with a 6-core i7 processor and 32 GB of RAM. Eventually, I was tempted into buying PL4 by the Black Friday promotion.Īfter buying and registering the software, I switched over to my regular photo directories - which are admittedly rather big - to find that PL4 came to a screeching halt opening them.

I have spent about two weeks with the demo version, albeit with a limited selection of RAW files on a separate drive in order not to mess up my ‘normal’ files. But I’ve had my share of experiences with forums and their population of fanboys (or girls) over the years, so I tend to avoid them or only join them as a last resort.

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