Photography and the Art of Seeing

 Making Selective Edits with DxO PureRAW 5 - ISO 11,400 Click on the images to enlarge them to better see the results. Above is the before image and below is the after using DxO PureRAW 5 with selective masking edits. This is how the Masking works; when we start out in PureRAW 5 in the Corrections Panel, we choose a Process method and in this case DeepPRIME XD2s with the Luminance and Force details set to 40 and 0 respectively. This cleans up our image quite well and some may say too well, too smooth, but I am leaving it like this for this tutorial. So the original image is very noisy and the initial processing gets rid of all the noise but may have gone too far and the image looks synthetic as you can see below. The faces are too smooth. The jersey's are too smooth and the football is lacking detail. This is where masking comes in. Step by Step - Starting in the Corrections Panel - Note all of the settings I am using here. When we are in the Masking Panel, by default, our cursor i...

Speeding up your Workflow using Adobe Lightroom Classic and DxO PureRAW 5 Although this article is not necessarily or completely limited to Adobe Lightroom Classic as everything was covered in Part 1, these other options are available to the user in the stand-alone application as well. In the previous article when we sent our NEF Raw file over to PureRAW 5 we choose the "Preview and Process with DxO PureRAW 5" option. Now I would like to discuss the other two options that are available to us;  "Process Instantly with DxO PureRAW 5" or "Process Directly using last settings DxO PureRAW 5". The Process Instantly with DxO PureRAW 5 option presents us with a dialog. More on this shortly The Process Directly using last settings DxO PureRAW 5 automatically starts processing your image(s) without any further interaction with the app. Whatever you used the very last time is exactly what will be used with this option - no dialog, no interaction with the app just get...

 DxO Pure RAW 5.4 can be used as a Plug-In for Lightroom Classic For all of those photographers out there that do not want to leave the world of Adobe (and I don't blame you) but wish to take advantage of DxO's Denoising and Demosaicing capabilities, you can add the best RAW converter (although I don't believe DxO refers to this piece of software as such) to your workflow with simplicity and ease. It's what is known as "round tripping". In other words you start off in Lightroom by importing into your Lightroom Catalog as usual. The main thing you need to be aware of is, you must turn off all things in the Details Panel such as Sharpening and Noise Reduction because DxO PureRAW 5.4 will do all of the Noise Reduction and Sharpening for you and you don't want to double-down on this stuff. Now, a couple of other things to be aware of ... and they are; don't make any edits to your images before passing your Raw files onto PureRAW 5 as it will not recognize ...