DxO Optics Pro 10.2 - Any users?

Rob E

Rob E

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Evening All,

I recently saw a video workshop showcasing the capabilities of DxO's latest version of Optics Pro. Curious to see how it performs in my day to day photography workflow, I've downloaded the free 30 day trial and had a play. I'm hugely impressed with the results. I've processed one of my images using lightroom and then seprately through DxO. This particular image was shot at 1600 iso and I cant believe how much detail DxO has managed to retain during the noise removal when compared to lightroom. I also found it a lot more easier to tune the colours.

Has anyone else tried DxO Optics Pro? First impressions are very good for me but I'm going to spend a little bit more time comparing the two before deciding whether or not to invest in some more software.
 
I have been a huge fan of DXO's prime noise reduction. It is quite advanced.
 
I've been using DXO Pro 8.5 for a little while now - impressed with the way it retains subtlety in colours and detail compared to lightroom, but not impressed with the incredibly slow workflow. Also recently some of the images I've processed have looked great when viewed in DXO, but after export, both as dng and tiff format, they are garish, crude and completely unusable. This has only started recently (there have been no updates) and is unpredictable.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Also recently some of the images I've processed have looked great when viewed in DXO, but after export, both as dng and tiff format, they are garish, crude and completely unusable. This has only started recently (there have been no updates) and is unpredictable.
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I also had noticed, and it was the lens sharpness option that was causing the problem. so my default is now having it turned off...I pretty much use the DXO for noise reduction and lens distortion correction. But the viewpoint software seems to be amazing for any sort of distortion correction.
 
That IS interesting. Most of the time I tweak the detail slider up to around 80 (bokeh at 50) but sometimes I leave it alone, and I wonder if it's the default setting that's making a mess?
 
And a quick fiddle about today showed that raising the detail slider on one of the failed images seemed to prevent the weird colouration. Nice one. :)
 
OK - I think I've found the REAL answer: if I have previously edited the RAW file in lightroom, when I import images from DXOP then the same filters and changes applied to the original RAW image are also applied to the newly imported files.

Did some editing today, and was puzzled at how an image I straightened in DXOP was really badly twisted the wrong way. Also another imported image I had edited showed signs of cloning, when I had not done any. Hit 'RESET' in the develop module for the import and everything went back to where it should be, but without affecting the original RAW file edits.
 
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