OK, I'm a sucker, so I installed it and loaded 1060 images, mostly from a shoot recently at a theater in low light.
The images loaded reasonably fast, faster than I could process them. Then when I selected a image, it only took about the same time as LR, 2-3 seconds to apply the prime NR and auto corrections.
The result, to me, was awful. All the images were over processed, detail was lots that was there in LR. The reason was primarily the heavy handed NR that was being applied. I prefer slightly noisy images in order to retain detail. When the NR blurs fine strands of hair, and does not need to, I think its over processed. Sure, the noise was removed from the black background, but it will print black in any event.
I did a export to LR, it seemed to process one image in a few seconds, so I did a 8.5 X 11 print to my color laser. It took close to 30 seconds to process! This is totally unacceptable to me, if I want to print even 50 photos, it could take forever. Those functions were so slow on the previous version that they were unusable. The print function is still the same, for my easy test.
I'd say that as others have said, for a few images, DXO can do a good job, but if you want to process large numbers, I am dubious, particularly for the automatic processing functions which need major tweaking after processing.
OK, I picked up the photo off my printer to see how good it looked.
Judge this quick snapshot for yourself. It defies explanation.
The images loaded reasonably fast, faster than I could process them. Then when I selected a image, it only took about the same time as LR, 2-3 seconds to apply the prime NR and auto corrections.
The result, to me, was awful. All the images were over processed, detail was lots that was there in LR. The reason was primarily the heavy handed NR that was being applied. I prefer slightly noisy images in order to retain detail. When the NR blurs fine strands of hair, and does not need to, I think its over processed. Sure, the noise was removed from the black background, but it will print black in any event.
I did a export to LR, it seemed to process one image in a few seconds, so I did a 8.5 X 11 print to my color laser. It took close to 30 seconds to process! This is totally unacceptable to me, if I want to print even 50 photos, it could take forever. Those functions were so slow on the previous version that they were unusable. The print function is still the same, for my easy test.
I'd say that as others have said, for a few images, DXO can do a good job, but if you want to process large numbers, I am dubious, particularly for the automatic processing functions which need major tweaking after processing.
OK, I picked up the photo off my printer to see how good it looked.
Judge this quick snapshot for yourself. It defies explanation.
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