If it needs to download a new camera-lens profile it will prompt you to do that first, and then you see this dialog where you choose the processing (I’ll use DeepPRIME), file format (DNG) and Destination Folder – by default, this is a subfolder within the folder where the image is stored, which is as good a place as any. PureRAW 2 will then launch and display the same options you get when using a standalone tool.
We want Lightroom to send the original RAW file to PureRAW, not it’s own processed version, and that’s done with the File > Plug-in Extras >Process with DxO PureRAW 2 command. To launch PureRAW 2, you don’t just right-click the image and choose ‘Edit with’ in the normal way. As you can see, the default Lightroom processing leaves it looking pretty noisy. It was shot at ISO 18,000 on a Nikon D7200, so pretty optimistic, I’ll agree. Here’s the image I’m going to be working with. Here’s how to use DxO PureRAW in Lightroom: 1.
It will certainly prompt you to rethink what you previously considered the acceptable ISO limits of your camera. Is it worth the effort? For low-ISO images you might not see much difference, but at higher ISOs, DxO’s DeepPRIME processing is so superior to Adobe’s that you may find it hard to believe you’re even looking at the same file. You can use DxO PureRAW as a standalone file converter, but DxO recognises that half the photo editing world uses Lightroom, so it’s worked out a process for creating a PureRAW DNG file from within Lightroom itself. They difference is, they use DxO’s demosaicing and processing, not the demosaicing tools in the software. To photo editors, these are just like regular RAW files, with all the extended color and tonal range of regular RAW files. So where’s the noise? And where did all that fine detail come from? It certainly wasn’t Lightroom.ĭxO PureRAW is a RAW conversion tool that takes regular RAW files and converts them into Linear DNG files with DxO’s advanced RAW processing, lens corrections and DeepPRIME noise reduction pre-applied. So how does that work, and are the results (a) really worth the effort and (b) as good as regular RAW files to edit? The remarkable thing about this low-light indoor image is that it was shot at ISO 18,000 on an APS-C D-SLR.
DxO PureRAW 2’s processing is better than Lightroom’s, but it can also be used from WITHIN Lightroom.
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