![]() Technically, that is less than 4 hours, but… ![]() A batch of 217 raw files from the Canon EOS R56, for example, was estimated to take ‘Less than 4 hours’, but it only took around 20 minutes. Fortunately, it doesn’t take quite as long as the software indicates. DeepPRIME gives the best results, but it also takes the longest to apply. The first option allows you to select the type of noise reduction that you want to apply, HQ, Prime or DeepPRIME. This brings up a simple dialogue box that gives you a few options for how the images will be processed. The next step is to ensure that the images you want to process are selected and click on ‘Process photos’. DxO PureRAW uses the image EXIF data to identify the camera and lens used to capture the images and automatically finds the required modules for download. you’ll be prompted to download any optics modules if they’re not already on your computer. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the images into the DxO PureRAW 2 screen.Įven when the images are on a fairly slow external drive, the thumbnail view of DxO PureRAW populates quickly after the images are imported. Helpfully, if you select all the images in a folder, DxO PureRAW 2 only selects the raw files as it’s these that you need to work with. The simplest approach, after opening DxO PureRAW 2 is to import a folder of images from wherever they’re stored on your computer or drive. On top of the excellent sensitivity of modern cameras, we have good AI-powered tools to clean up much of the noise in our images.DxO PureRAW 2 is designed to be easy to use and not add a long series of complicated steps to your usual workflow. We are so fortunate to live in the days when relatively affordable cameras can give you three stops of headroom over ISO 6400, which was pretty much unusable on many cameras ten years ago. The results are pretty good at ISO 51200, but AI noise reduction is worthwhile on the night shots and some of the available light shots. I land up shooting my Sony bodies quite a bit at ISO 51200 because I'm shooting available light indoors or night shots where I have to keep the shutter fairly fast, and I cannot shoot wide aperture because I don't have any fast primes with me or because I must avoid unacceptably narrow depth of field. I would certainly use these AI tools only where necessary. Quite apart from that video giving you an idea of what this AI-powered software can do, you now have a comparison point as you work through your PureRAW 3 trial. ![]() ![]() He does have other videos on using Photo AI in non-Raw workflows, but that isn't your primary interest. He gives a very good overview of what Photo AI can do in conjunction with Lightroom Classic. I am also glad that you felt Anthony's Photo AI video was worth watching. You are unlikely to benefit from the ability of Photo AI to sharpen selectively, upscale or handle JPEG and TIFF files. I think you are on the right lines: if your need is to handle high ISO Raw files, I would go with DxO PureRAW 3. I am really glad those comments helped, Steve. Unless you already have an older edition of PureRAW to upgrade, I would get trial versions of PureRAW and Photo AI to decide which one you prefer. DxO's lens corrections are likely to be better than Adobe's - but it is unlikely to be worth the processing time and storage capacity to run files through PureRAW just for a lens correction. Both Photo AI and PureRAW offer sharpening, but applying sharpening to a DNG is arguably sharpening too early in the workflow. Photo AI offers upscaling I don't believe PureRAW does, but you probably do not need to upscale unless you are cropping heavily or are processing files shot on cameras made over six years ago. If not, I will make a decision on whether to renew the Topaz update agreement or buy DxO PureRAW.Īs Elzenga says, the main benefit of these AI-powered programs is noise reduction. If the Adobe engine gets AI-powered noise reduction, I may start to use that. Photo AI and PureRAW 3 offer a similar workflow - and whilst one can be better than the other for certain images, I'm going to see how Photo AI and Lightroom Classic have evolved by the end of my current Topaz update agreement. I don't have DxO PureRAW because I already have the Topaz Image Quality bundle (Photo AI, DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI and Sharpen AI) with active updates. Anthony Morganti shows the Lightroom Classic workflow in his YouTube review of DxO PureRAW 3 (the link goes directly to the Lightroom Classic part of the video, though the whole thing is perhaps worth watching). Click to expand.It returns it in a DxO PureRAW 3 collection. ![]()
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