It does add quite a bit of time to your workflow if you’ve got more than a few images to process (my 2017 iMac can do 250 in about an hour) but for weddings and events it’s now an essential part of my workflowīut… there remain some awkward bugs. It sharpens Fuji X-Trans images far beyond what LR can manage, and it handles noise in high ISO images more smoothly than LR, and more realistically than Topaz. I now run just about every event, wedding and PR shoot image over ISO 3200 through DxO PureRaw 2 before I export to JPG and the results are excellent. It sounds perfect for Fuji shooters, especially us wedding and event photographrs!Īnd I’m happy to say that after a few months of updates to the app, it’s almost as good as they promised. 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 promises a vastly superior de-mosaic process to Lightroom, plus leading distortion control, and noise reduction, streets ahead of Lightroom’s own efforts. With PureRaw 2, DxO have added Fuji raw file support. Enter, the DxO PureRaw 2 plugin for Lightroom At the sizes most clients print images, the output is absolutely fine.

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. It doesn’t de-mosaic the X-Trans sensor data very well, and the noise reduction is pretty crappy too, especially compared to Capture One. 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’s devs don’t seem to have a clue how to handle Fuji files, or just don’t care.

I’d never heard of DxO PureRaw before last month.

Dxo pureraw.