You can use DxO PureRAW as a standalone file converter, but DxO recognises that half the photo editing world uses Lightroom, so it’s worked out a process for creating a PureRAW DNG file from within Lightroom itself.

They difference is, they use DxO’s demosaicing and processing, not the demosaicing tools in the software. To photo editors, these are just like regular RAW files, with all the extended color and tonal range of regular RAW files. So where’s the noise? And where did all that fine detail come from? It certainly wasn’t Lightroom.ĭxO PureRAW is a RAW conversion tool that takes regular RAW files and converts them into Linear DNG files with DxO’s advanced RAW processing, lens corrections and DeepPRIME noise reduction pre-applied. So how does that work, and are the results (a) really worth the effort and (b) as good as regular RAW files to edit? The remarkable thing about this low-light indoor image is that it was shot at ISO 18,000 on an APS-C D-SLR. DxO PureRAW 2’s processing is better than Lightroom’s, but it can also be used from WITHIN Lightroom.

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