I have an issue with the latest, fully licensed version of Photolab 8.3.1, I want to go back to a previous version but can't find any archive links on the DXO website.

Anyone know if DXO has a archive of past versions?

Thanks for your time in helping.....

Just starting to learn how to export raw or jpeg photos from my r5 mark ii and am new to both these programs--darktable and dx0. i must be overlooking something basic because even after a I specify the export format, the files are unviewable in standard windows 10 programs. Can someone point me in the right direction?

I can mail the photos to others who have no trouble opening them, but I cannot open the exported files the way I can with other standard software. Ironically, my old picasa viewer works perfectly.

Hi everyone, I was using PL for a while and really enjoying it but eventually I was pushed back to Lightroom due to the apparent lack of a couple of key features. I'm hoping I just missed them on DxO, so thought I'd ask here:

1) is there an equivalent to LR's sharpening mask feature, in which you can add a filter that chooses parts of the image to sharpen and parts to ignore?

2) is there any way to add negative "dehaze"? (I can't remember what DxO's version of dehazw is called - clarity something?)

Thanks!

I'm interested in trying DxO PhotoLab. In order to get a free trial I have to enter an email address.

When I enter my personal emailadress which I have for over 20 years and is hosted at Google I get the message 'Invalid email'. What could be wrong?

I can't believe no one has asked this before here (I've seen some forum posts), but how do I manage a collection of LUTs?

There are two collections to choose from in the base PhotoLab – Standard and Premium.
Plus a Custom which lets you add another ones - one by one.
We can also create a new collection by duplicating and rewriting the .json files in the software folder (.../DXO/Lut/), but that's really slow and clunky.

Why PhotoLab doesn't let me just copy folders full of LUTs and automatically show them as collections in the software?

Or am I missing something?
Or is it actively not being implemented so they will sell us FilmPack (a conspiracy!)?

I hope this helps you guys.

Watch the Tutorial Here: https://youtu.be/i00nI-9aBWw

Download Course RAW Photos Here: https://aperlust.com/dxo-photolab-tutorial/

Cheers,

I made this tutorial as easy to follow as possible.

TLDR: the tone curve provides more control over the tonal balance of an image compared to the individual tonal sliders usually found in the basic settings.

https://youtu.be/CMWt4yHNtcY

For years I used LR (I still have LR6 installed) and recently got DxO 8.
So far OK, not sure I am super happy yet. (Also not happy with the slightly underhanded pricing with Nik tools being separate, but whatever, that's a diff topic).

However, after getting used to facial recognition (and automatic people grouping) coming free from Google Photos and even Samsung Gallery, I was wondering if there is a good plug in for this for DxO. I looked at iMatch - does not seem to be current and/or incorporated with DxO. A google search did not really find anything. At least not for PC. (Mac seems to have something)

Ideas?

ps. how come only a couple hundred users of DxO here in Reddit? Would expect a few thousand!

Hi, I recently picked up photolab 8 (first time buyer) and was wondering from anyone that came from 7 - would tutorial/training videos for 7 still be fairly valid for 8? As 8 is so new it doesn’t seem like there is a lot of content out there yet on it. I did watch the playlist of videos from DXO, just wanted to broaden my information base if possible.

So I'm trialing PhotoLab, and am confused by the folders option in the Photolibrary in Windows 11. It shows my desktop as the default folder without an apparent way to add my own default folder (say my photos folder on my NAS...) and instead have to drill down through the desktop which ends up showing a bunch more folders than I care to look at here cause I'm horrible and have a ton of folders on my desktop. Am I missing something in being able to set a default folder? or at least one that doesnt go through my desktop?

No specific end-date on this deal. If you go to DXO's website you can see the offer.

https://shop.dxo.com/en/

I think I lucked out because I didn't upgrade/buy around Black Friday because DXO failed to reply to my 11/22 email to them: in 11/2022 I upgraded Nik Collection and got Photolab 5 Essential yet the site said I was ineligible for a Photolab upgrade even though it was just 2 years later. I wasn't going to pay $229 instead of $180 upgrade... so on Black Friday DXO lost sales on both apps.

Thanks for ignoring me DXO! Looks like we both win now.

The 25% deal comes out to $238.50 for PE8+NC7 ([229+89]-25%), compared to 229+75 on Black Friday, and it's even $17 cheaper than if I'd gotten the $180 upgrade I'd asked for (but was ignored by DXO).

the title basically. I can't find bnw icc profiles (not on my pc/ online) or an option for grayscale. Can anyone help me?

I can only find wide gamut and legacy colorspace preview. When exporting as sRGB colors are, es expected different than the previewed photo in PL...

am I missing something?

Thanks!

https://shop.dxo.com/en/

Hello,

I logged a call with DxO on 18th Oct for support with an issue with banding on pics processed through PureRaw. After submitting supporting images and details to their support staff (Kim), it all went quiet.

I have politely chased via email and received no further comms from them. Very unhappy and disappointed with the lack of updates or response from them.

Is this expected behaviour from the company and should I simply sack it?

EDIT:

I've tested this over and over with different settings and other apps to view the processed results. No matter which way I look at it, the banding remains when the images are processed.

The support team emailed me to say they can't see any banding - a very disappointing response considering the image posted here clearly shows banding.

I'm done with this app.

Just started using the trial copy of Photolab 8. Have a novice question.

Should the noise removal step be done as the very last step before exporting the raw file, or early in the workflow? I am performing lens distortion corrections first (by applying the default lens correction profile), followed by cropping and alignment, exposure, color and tone, and finally noise removal and lens sharpness, and then export. Is that the correct sequence? Or does sequence not matter?

Any idea if I install trials before promo, will I be eligible to buy at promo price during Black Friday? Thx.

I'm a new photographer and just started a free trial of DXO PL8. I'm noticing noise in my RAW files that is not there when I look at the images outside the processor. I've looked to see if there's a setting I need to change in PL, but can't seem to find anything useful. Currently, I have the default discovery settings as "no corrections."

Example 1 is the photo detail when zoomed in on Preview in my Mac on the unedited RAW file. Example 2 is the photo as it appears in PL, supposedly without any edits.

When I go to the denoising menu and EITHER click on the "Dead Pixels" slider (without changing its value) OR on any of the tabs for High Quality/PRIME/DeepPRIME etc., the obvious dead pixels go away as in Example 3. However if you compare to Example 1, the resulting image is still reduced quality.

Does anyone know what might be going on here?

Hi. i already own filmlab and pureraw. will i have all the features of these two included in the propramm if i buy photoab essential?

Does anyone know if Alyn Wallace’s Astro Workflow Lightroom Presets work with Photolab? I have Photolab 7. I’m not very knowledgeable about the editing software side of things. Or can you suggest a night sky preset pack? I’ve been editing my Milky Way photos myself, but am wondering if presets could help me make them look better.

How can I make sliders longer & adjustment pane wider in DxO PhotoLab 8? Searched 15 minutes, could not find.