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For instance for a football shoot with very difficult lighting, I’ll use Smart Lighting often as I’ll face sixty odd images to finish and Smart Lighting will get the job done much faster than Local Adjustments and exposure gradients. Smart Lighting is great for journalistic work but far less useful for artistic work. Smart Lighting will quickly balance the exposure of the image. It’s a great tool for images where there are large areas which are underexposed and large areas which are fully exposed or even over-exposed. I’ll often come back to this one after working with Selective Tone. Many images need a general boost or slight lowering of exposure.

Color Rendering (color rendering affects the image so fundamentally it’s best to get the one in you plan to use early: there’s a short list of profiles I use and which).

Without a suitable white balance, no image can be properly viewed or corrected. My Essential Tools palette includes the tools below in this exact order: I call this method of photo processing photo linear workflow. I then work downwards through those tools for each image. The final workflow key is to move all of the tools I actually use (about two thirds of them) in the order I usually apply them into the right hand column. Collapse All Palettes except Essential Tools In the end, PhotoLab is just a tool like a paintbrush: the goal is that it should be an extension of your own arm and your own vision. The tools there are flashy and it’s a good starting point to learn the power of the application but then it’s time to create your own visual signature. The corrections are too strong and too primitive. After getting over the initial learning curve with PhotoLab, I recommend that no photographer ever use the DxO Default profile. I’ll often apply a tone curve first and then work with PhotoLab’s Selective Tone and Contrast tools for a more subtle version, finally turning off the Tone Curve completely.īefore touching an image I always apply a preset to it. I started editing with curves in Photoshop and a custom S curve or even inverted C curve can solve most image issues faster than any other tool. This keeps all the information about one’s image available in one place, as well as Curves available at all times.

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Warning: attached Image is very large, as it’s a full resolution screenshot of a 4K screenįor me this means Histogram and Tone Curve and EXIF information on the left. Point two is to set up your screen properly. Point one is above: start a PhotoLab session with only selects visible. There are three keys to my workflow with PhotoLab. PhotoLab Processing Workflow: Setting up Your Screen For small sessions, I might just open the whole folder but restrict visibility to four and five star or just five star images. Most of the time, mine is set to four and five star RAW files only.įor very large jobs (football for instance) where I may start with over a thousand originals, I’ll move the select photos (four and five star) into a selects folder and only move that to PhotoLab to reduce overhead when processing that folder. In the PhotoLab folder view, one can restrict which photos appear. Happily FastRawViewer creates XMP files which are read by PhotoLab when moving a folder over to PhotoLab. While it’s technically possible to select photos in PhotoLab, FastRawViewer is so much faster and more efficient for culling that I couldn’t imagine not choosing selects there. I start by culling my photos in FastRawViewer, a $15 utility which every photographer should have.

Lightroom comes closest but with loss of some colour and detail. CaptureOne and Iridient Developer simply can’t keep up.

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has wonderful tools to handle high-ISO photos (most of my football production).Īny photographer shooting at 3200 ISO and higher with a Canon camera owes it to him or herself to try DxO PhotoLab on those high ISO photos.

looks great (looks are important in artistic tools).

it offers a very clear workflow and doesn’t require using its own cataloguing features (C1 I’m looking at you) to start developing images.

I prefer DxO PhotoLab above all the others as:

Those tools are named as they are the ones I know capable of producing first quality technical results. Other top-tier tools in this market place include Adobe Lightroom, CaptureOne and Iridient Developer. As I’ve spent countless hours improving that workflow to process artistic, football and family photos, I’m happy to share it, this time in a more permanent format.įor those not familiar with DxO PhotoLab, it’s RAW development tool. I know I’ve written one but couldn’t find it in my archives there. At, Roseblood asked about an article on my workflow in DxO PhotoLab.