If you have some time and want to really get into how I evaluated DxO PureRAW for my own varied style of nature photography, grab a drink and settle in! As with this blog post, the video considers the potential for DxO PureRAW to provide better RAW images for a variety of nature photography scenarios. Check it out below to get into some serious detail and to learn a few processing tips and tricks along the way. I produced a big video review for my YouTube channel. That sounded good to me so I downloaded a copy to try it out. So, when I became aware of DxO’s new PureRAW software, I was interested to see what the new software might have to offer.ĭxO PureRAW promises to give us the best version of our RAW files through pre-processing so that we can then get back to our regular workflow to produce awesome images. But I imagine that there are a lot of us out there who are generally happy with Lightroom and Photoshop and, even more importantly, don’t want to make the huge time investment needed to completely overhaul our workflow. If you’ve done so and are happy moving away from Adobe that’s great.

I can understand that desire, but I have no interest in switching over to a completely different catalog and workflow system.

For this reason, some photographers have been looking at full-scale Lightroom replacements such as Capture One, DxO PhotoLab, On1, and others. Among them is Lightroom’s difficulty in extracting the best colors, noise profiles, and sharpness from our RAW files. Though I’m a longtime Lightroom user (I even produced the popular e-book and video series Lightroom for the Nature Photographer with my good friend Keith Bauer), it’s common knowledge that Lightroom has some limitations.

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