My New Improved Workflow for DxO PhotoLab 7

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My New Improved Workflow for DxO PhotoLab 7
It's been 9 months since DxO PhotoLab 7 was released and I've made a few changes to my photo processing workflow, some prompted by improvements in the software and others by improving my own efficiency!
I demonstrate my new workflow for landscape photography using a photograph taken of a deserted house in the Tabernas desert.
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Software that I use for Post Processing:
DxO Pure RAW (Pre Processing When Necessary)
Adobe Lightroom (Catalog Management and Editing)
DxO PhotoLab (RAW Processing)
Adobe Photoshop (Layer Based Processing)
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:43 The RAW Image
2:44 Setting up the Edit
5:03 Global Adjustments to Light and Tone
11:33 Color Adjustments
16:35 Local Adjustments
22:01 Export to Digital

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@alexyphotoman9716 8 күн бұрын

Another excellent video - thanks.... My workflow is much like yours; however I start by applying a preset which I've created for my Nikon camera. It is a colour corrected (Calibrite) linear Nikon D500 profile which gives me a wide scope for change. I also use the DxO wide gamut colour space, and since I'm using a dcp profile, I employ the DxO dcp curve rather than the adobe as it also affords a wider range (I think!). I appreciate your advice to walk away from the edit so as to return with fresh eyes and yes, it is difficult at times to avoid ending up with an hdr effect or death by a thousand mouse clicks image. I do my local adjustments at the end as you do, then return for a final assessment - mostly exposure levels and contrast, before exporting. I use a telephoto zoom fairly often especially for wildflower images and If my image is not as sharp as I'd prefer due to wind, I'll run the image through Topaz AI to selectively reduce blur, then back to Photolab for any final adjustments, then to export. Since I switched to Photolab exclusively a year back, I've found that the one thing that I miss from Lightroom is the ability to separately adjust the luminosity in each of the shadows, mids and brights - haven't found as good a way to do this in Photolab. I've used the luminosity masks, but they are not quite the same, at least in my hands. Do you know if one can do this more easily in the Nik 7 collection? This could be something to look at in your upcoming Nik Collection videos. Cheers from Canada,.....Alex

@chriswrightphotographs 8 күн бұрын

Interesting and very logical. How are you finding Topaz AI? I’ve heard very mixed reports but never tried it myself. Intrigued! Regarding the Lightroom mid tones question, I’m pretty sure I can get equivalent corrections with a combo of filters in Color Efex. Might be more complicated though. I’ll test and video - not next week, but week after. “The best filters for landscape Photography”

@alexyphotoman9716 8 күн бұрын

@@chriswrightphotographs Sorry for the delay - I just got several emails from DxO telling me of their 20th anniversary - splendid - and more to the point, offering a 20% discount on all of their software, so I've just purchased Nik 7, and I'll be installing it next and trying out your suggestion. The Viewpoint software can wait until black friday as I don't have much of a need for it since I can use the pared down tools already available in PL7. As to Topaz photo AI - it is useful, but often I turn the sharpen effect down from the automatic level applied. I like the fact that it comprises several modules in the one program. The upscale seems pretty good and I'm no longer as leery of cropping into a smaller detail in an image. The facial enhancement is ok, but I don't have much need for it as it's mostly sharpening that I use since I'm using either a 100mm macro or the variable zoom producing a shallow depth of field and it doesn't take much motion either from me or a breeze to blur an image. The D500 is an APS-C sensor, so the angle of view is narrowed as well. Again, thanks for your videos - I've sent links to several of my photo friends who've liked them as well.

@chriswrightphotographs 8 күн бұрын

Yes, in multiple languages! Thanks for the recommendations, much appreciated!

@HudShot 7 күн бұрын

Loved the comment about 16:9 photos. I feel the same way. Have you experimented much with the wider CinemaScope ratio of 2.35:1? More limited application I would think, but the right photo would look great I think.

@chriswrightphotographs 7 күн бұрын

Not knowingly, but I have some stitched panoramas of the Gorafe desert that I’ve been meaning to revisit, I’ll try this, thanks for mentioning it!

@chriswrightphotographs 8 күн бұрын

What's your workflow? Mine has broadly remained the same for twenty odd years, with small amendments helped along by software improvements. Plan to do a more advanced workflow branching into Nik Collection in the next few weeks.

@KevinPhillipssb 8 күн бұрын

Hi Chris, thank you for your latest workflow demonstration. You didn’t mention sharpening at all. Does that feature in your workflow at all as I thought raw files needed at least a little bit. Thanks for doing the videos!

@chriswrightphotographs 8 күн бұрын

Thanks for pointing this out. I didn’t, feature it as the intention was to take that tiff to Nik Collection and demo sharpening options there. But length deterred me - I’ll do that video for next week.

@scottallen8174 7 күн бұрын

Question.. How does the noise reduction in DXO Photolab 7 Elite stand up to Topaz's Noise AI?

@chriswrightphotographs 7 күн бұрын

I've never used Topaz Noise AI, so I can't give a subjective assessment. What I can say from direct experience is that Noise Reduction in PhotoLab 7 and PureRAW is still considerably better than that in Lightroom, but Adobe are closing what used to be a huge gap. I've heard/read that Noise AI is pretty effective. There is a new Noise Reduction option in PureRAW, XD2 which is slightly more aggressive but allows sharpening to be modified to four levels according to taste. I'd expect that to turn up in PL8.

@scottallen8174 7 күн бұрын

Thank you!