Posted by Jack Garrett on June 17, 2010 at 5:41 PM
I really liked what Brett did with his Pano image the other day and he mentioned he used DxO Optics for part of his processing. I've read a couple of reviews and it sounds like a pretty good app...like an advance RAW converter. Does anyone else here use this App and what are your thoughts before I spend the money?
Jack. Try this link to the tutorials on DXO. The Pro5 ones are the best, to me. Click on Visual guide It is actually the manuel in visual form and is a big but worth it if you are intersted. Looks intuitive and rather easy to use. It is primarily a RAW converter but has many other features as well. From info on the site apparently Alian Birot uses it so maybe he will chime in ( Ithink he is a member).
There is a 30 day free trial download and software is on $99 special til June 30th. Looks like a good software to have in your tool kit, to me. Joe Rogers
http://www.dxo.com/us/photo/support/Tutorials
Posted by Kalin Wilson on June 18, 2010 at 12:37 AM
I used it for a few years with my 20D. I haven't upgraded to the Pro version required to work with the 5DII.
Get the free trial and play with it. I was VERY impressed with the improvement in images using the optical distortion and chromatic aberration adjustments. I sometimes used the lighting and color adjustments but usually left that to LR. I used to process my raw files in DxO first because I thought the demosaic algorithm was better. I would convert to DNG and correct optical/geometric issues based on the lens/body. Then I'd work exposure/color in LR.
However, DxO can be very heavy handed if you let it. Recently I've had several images that I was working up for large prints that weren't quite 'right' for various reasons at large sizes, mostly due to softness or oversharpening and halos. DxO and Noiseware were the culprits. In most cases I had to start from the raw files again to get the image that I wanted. Due to that and improvements in LR, I've decided not to upgrade DxO and I keep a wary eye on what Noiseware is doing (still love the plugin).
Still, it's a cool, capable program and deserves a trial.
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2 repliesThere is a 30 day free trial download and software is on $99 special til June 30th. Looks like a good software to have in your tool kit, to me. Joe Rogers
http://www.dxo.com/us/photo/support/Tutorials
Get the free trial and play with it. I was VERY impressed with the improvement in images using the optical distortion and chromatic aberration adjustments. I sometimes used the lighting and color adjustments but usually left that to LR. I used to process my raw files in DxO first because I thought the demosaic algorithm was better. I would convert to DNG and correct optical/geometric issues based on the lens/body. Then I'd work exposure/color in LR.
However, DxO can be very heavy handed if you let it. Recently I've had several images that I was working up for large prints that weren't quite 'right' for various reasons at large sizes, mostly due to softness or oversharpening and halos. DxO and Noiseware were the culprits. In most cases I had to start from the raw files again to get the image that I wanted. Due to that and improvements in LR, I've decided not to upgrade DxO and I keep a wary eye on what Noiseware is doing (still love the plugin).
Still, it's a cool, capable program and deserves a trial.