The PhotoLibrary has been the achilles heel for PhotoLab for quite a while now, it has been improved incrementally and PhotoLab 5 made a breakthrough in making metadata fields compatible with Adobe Lightroom. However Adobe have the market covered by the sheer breadth of their portfolio so for Luminar, ON1, Capture One and DxO the challenge is to extend the capability of the product while maintaining compatibility with Adobe.ĭxO have addressed this challenge by creating a smooth import/export workflow into the Adobe family – so I can for example keep my photo library in Lightroom, export to PhotoLab for Raw processing and save it seamlessly back into my library. Taking Adobe as the target, and Luminar, ON1 and Capture One as the competition, on RAW processing I think DxO PhotoLab 6 comes out better than anyone. This database comes from their sister company, DxOMark whose business is testing lenses, and provides the industry benchmark for manufacturers.

DxO are differentiated from all other vendors by their vast database of lens and body characteristics and their ability to provide corrections for lens/body combinations.

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