I use Lightroom for all my management and honestly most of my post processing. You can find more of his work on his website at Travis Lawton Photography as well as his blog at The Lawtographer.īefore I begin, let me say that personally I’m an avid Lightroom user of several years now. So how does it compete with the big boy on the block? Read on to see what we think.Įditor’s Note: This is a guest blog posting by Travis Lawton. One such company is DxO Image Science with their product, DxO Optics Pro which is currently at version 7.5. While Lightroom does have a pretty large stake in this arena, there are a few companies out there trying to eat some of Adobe’s piece of the pie. If you asked most photographers, “What are the different photo management software packages out there?”, I bet 97% of them would only be able to tell you one answer Adobe Lightroom. And because of this, photo management software was born. We recommend this program to intermediate and advanced users.Now that everyone and their mother has a digital camera capable of taking hundreds and even thousands of pictures in one sitting, the next logical step is a way to store and organize those images. It installs a desktop icon without asking but uninstalls cleanly. Optics Pro's Help file is actually a comprehensive user manual, and an included visual guide acts as the quick-start guide for users who want to jump right in.ĭxO Optics Pro has a 31-day trial period. The Review module gives users a summary of their session's work, as well as the option to export directly to Flickr. The nostalgic photographer will enjoy the included film simulators, which mimic the properties of many popular film types. The standard raw editing features are all here, but Optics Pro also provides sophisticated distortion correction controls that allow the shooter not only to correct for a particular chosen vantage point, but also factor in the unique camera and lens combination used for the photograph. Here users are presented with two panels: the photo presented on the left, and a scrolling list of tools along the right. Select, Prepare, Process, and Review modules separate the tasks most photographers will use to process their images, but the Process module is where DxO Optics Pro really shines.
The program features a very intuitive workflow. That's definitely not something you see every day.
The DxO online database allows users to select from any number of manufacturers' camera bodies and lenses, and then use the optical characteristics of said cameras and lenses to fine-tune their images and correct for the particular shortcomings on Camera X or Lens Y.
In a world overflowing with image-editing software, DxO Optics Pro is a shining star.
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