We can add, edit, associate, disassociate and delete keywords here. We can see on the right, the histogram, the Exif Data and a Keywords panel. If we want quick access to the photo you’ll see at the bottom of the screen left a project called Lightroom – that’s the default project for all photos exported from Lightroom and it will create a different project for each export. It’s important to realise that this doesn’t actually move the RAW file – it simply notifies PhotoLab of its location in the file system. I can return the image to Lightroom when I have finished editing as a tif file with all the new metadata I’ve added in PhotoLab.įile – Plugin Extras – Transfer to DxO Photolab 5 PhotoLibrary Image exported from Lightroom to PhotoLab 5 I use Lightroom to manage my photos so I’m going to export from Lightroom directly to PhotoLab5. Like any RAW image, it’s fairly flat but reasonably well exposed, there are no blown out highlights and the detail is visible in the shadows.

We’re going to work with this RAW file (the image is an unedited RAW file converted to jpeg so that it can be embedded in this web page). There is some detail in this review about the improvements that have been made. I’m going with the first option – I’ve written about the Library Management capabilities of PhotoLab before, although that article is due an update. As a Library Management tool in its own right.As a part of an Adobe Lightroom workflow.The easiest way to describe a workflow is to step through the paces, so that’s what we’re going to do here. DxO have taken something that works and made it work better.ĭeep Prime was already, hands down, the best noise reduction software available. The U Point interface is definitely an improvement. Improved PhotoLibrary functionality brings the product closer to being a credible alternative to Adobe Lightroom. These are all things that users have been crying out for, particularly the Fujifilm support. Support for Fujifilm X-Trans files (in beta)

Photolab review