#On1 photo raw vs lightroom upgrade#
#On1 photo raw vs lightroom code#
#On1 photo raw vs lightroom trial#

#On1 photo raw vs lightroom upgrade#

Dot releases are free, but major version changes incur upgrade fees. So although you're never forced to upgrade the software, and don't have to pay any annual fees, you will need to upgrade PhotoLab (but not necessarily Viewpoint or FilmPack) if you want support for a future camera or lens. One other thing to be aware of: when DxO adds support for a new lens or camera, it only works with the latest version of the software. But that has the inevitable side effect that it takes a while, sometimes many months, for new cameras and lenses to be supported some never are. I think that PhotoLab is the best RAW processor available, partly because its modules are based on detailed lab tests of every supported camera and lens. This applies to both the initial purchase and any future upgrades you choose to buy, as well as to the essential DxO Viewpoint and the nice-to-have DxO FilmPack. So, does anyone already tested all those and have some feedback to help me choose?ДxO has frequent sales, so you can get at least 25% off the normal price, sometimes more. My biggest doubt on DxO is the companies reliablity (patches, support, future camera support, etc) since the price is quite steep: It is the same as paying Adobe CC for 2 and 1/2 years since I need the Photo Suite to have the perspective correction from ViewPoint to replace LR 'Transform' that I use a lot and FilmPack just to be able to create a vignette.

#On1 photo raw vs lightroom code#

Basically disable denoise and sharpening on LR and try to do both on PS better than DxO or C1 can do Дў) Move to DxO and blindly believe on their magical code ДЈ) Learn to tweak C1 to get the same results from DxO and keep its amazing colors. So, right now I am between three options:ДЎ) Keep Adobe CC and learn to fix Lightroom limitations on Photoshop. Here is a simple example (for me the difference on this 1-1 on the details of the trees and the green gazebo behind the statue are crazy): It looks like that they are doing something weird, some strong sharpening filter or something, that is tricking my eyes.

But, they are so much better that I kind of doubt it. For me DxO gave the best results (specially pulling details out of the RAW, sharpening and noise reduction). CaptureOne has almost the same level of detail of DxO (but not the same), better denoise than LR (but not better than DxO) but the best colors. I was expecting better results from the Nik Collection (specially the denoise tool) but it look very artificial too me. They probably can improve, but then, it is too much work and I just prefer to stay on LR/PS that I am used to. I tried to tweak them but they never got super sharp. RawTherapee, Darktable and ON1 all looked very dull and soft on a straight conversion.

Affinity I discarted right away because it failed to open one of my sample G9 High Res RAW files.

#On1 photo raw vs lightroom trial#

I downloaded the trial of CaptureOne, DxO, Affinity, Nik Collection (to use just the denoise and sharpening plugins inside LR), ON1, Rawtherapee and Darktable. Since I am a CC monthly subscriber, I always fall back to Photoshop to do those and that always slows my workflow so I just do that with very few images.Д«ut recently I decided to test other RAW converters. I am a Lightroom user since forever but I was never fully satisfied with sharpening and noise reduction on it.