Still making my way down is Essential tools, which includes White Balance, Temperature and Tint, Exposure Compensation, Contrast and DxO Smart Lighting (still working on that), Noise Reduction, a straightening (Horizon) tool and Crop. The usual suspects are on the right, with the Histogram (apparently not editable), the “What’s New in PhotoLab 3?” panel (which I’ll circle back to). All the meta is on the left - you can add keywords just below that, quickly and easily. The Customize tab is where the magic happens. My next step was clicking on the Customize tab. This is great for making sure that the correct lens distortions are accounted for. I could get to work straight away … I LOVE that.Īnother thing that impressed me right off the bat, PhotoLab immediately recognized what camera I was using and which lenses I had and asked if I wanted to import those optic modules. No waiting for images to be installed and converted to DNG. Selecting folders via a folder was easy and they were available straight away. It did not automatically try and download from an SD Card, something I do NOT like doing anyway.

I could search for images by day rating and more, or I could search through my PC for folders. “We were not in Kansas anymore Toto.” There are two tabs on the left, one was PhotoLibrary and the other Customize. Once installed I opened the start screen and had to pause. If you are just after the basics of PhotoLab, it’s only $129 (You can get Nik and PhotoLab 2 for $149.00). So what does it offer? Well to start with - price. This is not my first dance with Nik Effects Pro, which is another added benefit with DxO products, but I’ll save that for later.ĭxO PhotoLab is non-destructive and makes a new DOP file with all corrections and filters, so it is really no different in that regard to Lightroom. I am not normally one to follow the pack, but once I was in, I wasn’t really feeling the need to get out. I have always been an Adobe girl and use Lightroom Classic and Photoshop exclusively - well, that’s because that’s what everyone was using. I was recently offered a copy of DxO PhotoLab 3 to try out for a review.

Dxo photolab 2 presets