DxO Optics Pro 10 Elite

Ady N

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I currently use Bridge & Photoshop and infrequently LR. I also use Colour FX Pro, silver FX Pro and several bought actions. I have recently downloaded the 30 day free trial of DxO and its biggest strength seems to be noise reduction and auto lens corrections. I am having a play with the other features it offers and it does seem a useful tool. Just wondered how others used it and integrated it into their workflow. Any tips/advice welcome as I am considering buying the package after the trial expires.
Thanks.
 
I used DXO many years ago, version 3 I think. I've just downloaded the triad of 10 and I'm not really that impressed. Yes the PRIME noise reduction looks fantastic, but that's all that really blew me away. Everything else I can achieve with Lightroom.

I use OnOne for effects which allows me the ability to brush in effects or mask effects from parts of the image. Something DXO can't do.
 
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I used DXO many years ago, version 3 I think. I've just downloaded the triad of 10 and I'm not really that impressed. Yes the PRIME noise reduction looks fantastic, but that's all that really blew me away. Everything else I can achieve with Lightroom.

I use OnOne for effects which allows me the ability to brush in effects or mask effects from parts of the image. Something DXO can't do.
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Yeah - £150 is quite a bit for the NR feature, albeit very very good. I am in the process of editing old raw files using DxO + LR/Photoshop versus just LR/Photoshop.
 
I find sharpness and fine detail better resolved with DXOP (version 8 for me) compared to LR 5.7, and the colours are more subtle and natural looking, especially when vierwed in DXOP. I normally export as dng files for import into LR, but often find the images display differently, with altered colour balance, vibrance and density, even though they are imported without any preset adjustments.

Just been back, because it was annoying me. Reprocessed one of the images as a 16 bit tiff and 100% jpeg, then imported to LR. Different again, with the new images being more vibrant and saturated.

LR remains my main processing software because of the speed, flexibility and good cataloging & selection tools, but this is annoying - I've also seen it, only much worse, with output from CaptureOne.
 
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After a few days with it and a few re-visits to some old raw files I do think the end result from my pp tests shows it to be superior to LR/Bridge and the NR feature is outstanding. So much so I will be splashing the cash (plastic) on the software.
 
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