For photographers focused on color accuracy, this latest version also includes support for DCP profiles. A number of other excellent automatic adjustments simplify the editing process, and newly-added localized editing tools allow you to fine-tune their results more effectively than in the past.

As you might expect from them, PhotoLab provides excellent automatic lens corrections and a truly incredible noise reduction algorithm they call PRIME. Why should they licence their technology ? the real question is why did c1 not develop such technologies as it was clear in which direction things will go ? c1 very much gave up developing core improvements, their focus seems to make as much money as possible with an ageing code, very different to dxo which as the smaller company with less market share needs to attract new user with really useful and innovative features and to offer visible better image quality is a very good argument, no? as in other fields to develop something new you need to build up expertise, this needs time and money and also a dedicated management which thinks in longer periods and not just accountants and a office full of marketing people.PhotoLab is a RAW editor from DxO, a company famous for its precision testing of optical equipment. Yes it takes some time to understand PL as it behaves different to adobe and c1 but to use it only to apply deepPrime and lens corrections is not that difficult. I recommend PL over pureRAW because I often see the need to change deepPrime settings or had to adjust the lens correction values, impossible with pureRaw, for optimal quality.

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