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DxO PhotoLab 4
Dig our your tired old photos, they’re about to get better!
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DxO Labs www.dxo.com Essential Edition: £112, $129, 129 € Elite Edition: £169, $199, 199, €
Here at AppleUser, we’re big fans of DxO Labs’ PhotoLab image editing software. A high-end image editing suite, it’s aimed firmly at the high-needs user; photography professionals and very keen amateurs. It’s not for the casual snapper but those who are serious about photography will find it a comprehensive and feature-packed suite that really brings out the best in your photographic art.
This, the fourth version, introduces some great new features. The most significant is DeepPRIME, an artificial intelligence technology that learns from the millions of photos DxO’s laboratories have analysed over the last 15 years. This learning is used to better process photographs taken in the RAW format with regards to digital noise reduction and demosaicing (yes, that is a word). As a result, images look more natural. It’s especially useful when using digital zoom, snapping in low light conditions or when the photo was taken on an older camera with fewer megapixels than modern devices. Dig out your old family snaps from the late Nineties and early 21st Century and DxO PhotoLab 4 can really bring them to life.
Another new feature is Smart Workspace, which lets you personalise your working area to best suit your needs. You can display or hide tools, so you only see the ones you want to use. If the need arises, you can quickly and easily access a hidden tool; just look it up and it reappears instantly.
There are some minor additional features and improvements too. A batch renaming function has been added, so you can change the titles of a series of photos with one click. Another new feature, DxO Advanced History, lets you group edits and adjustments made to your photo and show or hide them as needed. It’s an excellent means of getting the most from a picture you’re editing heavily. If you’re working on more than one picture at a time, edits made to one photograph can be synced to others, which is great if
