Second, you can intelligently undo the adjustments. First, it lets you see at a glance which adjustments you’ve applied to an image. I used Topaz tools as part of my post processing workflow, so its ability to outperform DxO in this area was amazing.īut DxO are right back in the game with their new DeepPrime Noise Reduction, as my tests below show. Noise reduction is best done early on – during the RAW development stage, where the RAW converter has the enormous advantage of dealing with the RAW image data, unaffected by editing. But the others caught up and then, amazingly, Topaz Labs AI Clear and DeNoise AI bettered it. It produced better, sharper and cleaner images than anything else. When I first used DxO, many years ago, its noise reduction and core RAW development engine were class leading. Not all of these extra features are show-stoppers or even unique, but some really caught my eye: DxO DeepPrime

Instant watermarking: to add watermarks directly to your photos.

Selective Copy Paste: to synchronise the settings of several similar images by applying individual edits from one photo to another.

DxO Advanced History: a new and exclusive editing history tool to scroll back to different moments in the editing process.DxO Smart Workspace: a new dynamic interface with a simpler workflow with batch renaming.DxO DeepPrime: a revolutionary demosaicing and denoising technology based on artificial intelligence and trained with deep learning.DxO kindly provided me with a pre-release of Photo Lab V4 and this time I am much more impressed.

Dxo photolab 5 vs topaz denoise