Its £115 but in for a penny, PhotoLab is £199 and as far as I can see includes PureRAW. I'm pretty sure I'll get a PureRAW licence. Like you I have skipped PL6 thus far and was looking at maybe swapping to PR as the bulk of my editing is in LRc but I feel I will stay with PL5 and will wait until PL7 before I upgrade again.Impressed by my trial of DXO PureRAW (see this thread Getting into noise reduction) I took a look at the specs for PhotoLab 5. To my eyes at least and that’s before considering everything else PL offers. Possibly the wrong shot to test.įor me, if I wanted DPXD I’d use the upgrade offer on PL6 you get as an existing customer and have the extra control and just suck up the lack of staying inside one program that PR3 gives as whilst convenient I personally feel PL gives a better result to work with in your program of choice. Possibly the picture I chose but there all the same.Ĭomparing DeepPrime and DeepPrimeXD but this time only using PR3 in LRc DPXD shows a slight improvement (1600iso shot and the same one as the DP PR vs PL test) but still with that slight over or under sharpening to my eyes depending on whether I used standard or soft. That’s comparing DeepPrime (not XD) form PR3 and PL5. We are talking pixel peeping level but in my test shot I worked on I was happier with the file that went through PL5 before exporting back to LRc. My initial take is that the sharpening is higher in ‘standard’ and lower in ‘soft’ compared the ‘standard/auto’ in PL5.

Purely my opinion but having downloaded the trial of PR3 I still feel on a like for like basis that PL (5 in my case so can’t compare DPXD) produces a nicer image to work from in LRc (again, in my case).

Dxo pure raw and photolab