![]() ![]() Not to say DxO isn’t as useful, but the improved sensor on the X-T5 seems to lend itself to better quality images from the outset.)ĭxO Pure Raw 2 sharpens Fuji X-Trans images beyond what LR can manage, and it handles noise in high ISO images more smoothly than LR, and to my eye much more realistically than Topaz. And even then only on very special images the client may want to print. (UPDATE: Now I’m on the X-T5 I find I’m getting better results in LR than before and I’m only using DxO Pure Raw 2 on the noisiest high ISO images. When I was shooting with the X-T3 I started running almost every wedding and PR shoot image over ISO 3200 through DxO PureRaw 2 before I exported to JPG and the results were excellent. There was a bumpy start with quite a few bugs, but I’m happy to say that after a few months of updates most of the bugs are gone and it’s incredibly powerful. It sounds perfect for Fuji shooters, especially us wedding and event photographers! With a LR plugin the idea is you edit your Fuji raw files, put the finished raws through PureRaw 2’s DeepPrime tool and have the resulting dng files imported seamlessly back into your LR catalog with the existing raw edits copied over too. It also does distortion control, although this is largely on a par with what LR can do with Fuji files. With PureRaw 2, DxO have added Fuji raw file support that promises vastly superior de-mosaicing, de-noising, and sharpening than Lightroom can offer. Enter, the DxO PureRaw 2 plugin for Lightroom At the sizes most clients print images, the output is absolutely fine, if a little noisier at high ISO than I know my files could be in other apps. My entire workflow is built around Lightroom so I learned to make Lightroom work for me. And they’re a lot of effort to use on a more than a couple of shots. ![]() I’ve dabbled with Topaz Labs tools like DeNoise and Sharpen, but found the DeNoise tool was prone to producing plasticky smooth images even with every slider turned down. My workflow for editing my Fuji raw files is pretty straightforward and I don’t tend to use anything other than Lightroom to import, edit, and export to JPG.īut let’s face it: while Lightroom is certainly ‘good enough’, Adobe doesn’t seem to know how to properly de-mosaic and de-noise/sharpen raws from Fuji’s X-Trans sensor, or just doesn’t care enough to add dedicated handling for them. ![]() I’d never heard of DxO PureRaw before March 2022. Want a second opinion? This review by Alex Armitage makes it really clear that Adobe’s AI Denoise tool pretty much blows away ALL third party denoise tools: I’m sure pixel peepers will find plenty to complain about, and perhaps PureRaw 3 does ‘better’ if you get really super picky on 100% crops, but as a professional event photographer and wedding photographer I’m perfectly happy with the new AI tools in Lightroom Classic. ![]() So, in all honesty, for my purposes batch cleaning noisy event and wedding shots, I don’t need the DxO PureRaw plugin any more. No colour shifts to speak of, unlike DxO PureRaw 2 the resulting DNG looks EXACTLY like the original raw… just cleaner.it automatically adds the resulting DNG to the library, applies your edits, AND creates a stack with the original raw file.there’s an adjustable strength slider, AND it shows you a preview.it also does amazing work with Fuji files.Whereas with the first generation of AI Denoise built into Lightroom Classic: DxO claim they can’t reproduce this even though I sent many, many examples. and when it does finally import, while it applies my edits I usually need to correct the exposure or the white balance as everything is often a tiny bit too dark and/or warm.the auto-import process rarely works properly I usually need to ‘synchronise folder’ after I run it, which leads to a torrent of import error messages about an hour later for some reason, all of which need to be manually dismissed (lots of fun if you ran it on dozens of images in a batch!).but there’s no adjustable settings, and no preview – you have to actually run it to see what you’ll get.the PureRaw plugin was at the time the best denoise tool for Fuji raw files.I’ll leave my outdated review of PureRaw 2 up below, for posterity. So why bother spending more money when AI Denoise is built into Lightroom Classic at no extra cost? I’ve not bothered to upgrade to PureRaw 3 as the new AI Denoise in Lightroom Classic is already so much better to use than PureRaw 2 was, without any of the PureRaw 2 bugs I came up against. I honestly don’t think anyone really needs the PureRaw plugin any more. Adobe just added AI Denoise abilities to Lightroom Classic and they are fantastic. ![]()
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