

It's especially effective in low-light photos, reducing noise and preserving colors.ĭxO is basically saying to let the PureRAW engine touch your images first, then it will send them to the editor of your choice greatly improved. Once you install the software, it's an app on your Windows or Mac computer. Drop an image or images onto a target, and PureRaw goes to work. In a few seconds, your raw files are corrected. All the files I tried were improved, none were degraded. The first thing I noticed was that lens distortions were nicely corrected. Often, there was more shadow detail, and low-light images benefited from substantial noise reduction. DxO PureRAW gives you a slider so you can compare before and after. This JPEG shows the interface, but the compressed image can't show the impressive sharpness brought out or the noise reduction. You can then send those corrected files, still as DNGs, onto Lightroom or Camera Raw or wherever for whatever adjustments you might like to make. The files you send will be much improved, and that's the point of the software. I was really impressed with the improvements in lens geometry. Without any manual adjustments, PureRAW founds the camera and lens combination that needed to be applied, and here's the result: Here's an original with a super wide angle lens. Using DxO PureRAW, I could see that the app itself was stable and without any glitches I could detect. On the other hand, there were some raw files it could not open. As an avid drone photographer, I was happy to see DNG files from my DJI Mavic Pro were recognized and opened. PureRAW recognized the optics and corrected them. However, it did not recognize the DNGs from by newer Skydio 2 drone. Adobe Camera Raw did recognize them.Īlso, PureRAW drew a blank on Apple ProRaw from my iPhone 12 Pro Max, which is a major miss. When I tried to load the iPhone images or a Skydio 2 drone image, PureRAW threw up this error: I feel sure DxO will have updates to add these formats, but I was disappointed I could not get the advantage of PureRAW on those images. Still, for the files I could process with PureRAW, every one looked better. When it didn't have a lens and camera combination in its internal database, it quickly went out to the web for the info, and then, that data was permanently added. It never failed to find the lens/camera data needed, which is more than I can say for my Adobe products, which often can't find some of my more obscure lenses.
