

This takes you to a familiar folder hierarchy of the files on your computer. Make sure you select the PhotoLibrary button in the top-left corner. The main difference is the number of options on the right-hand side. You can choose between Standard and Advanced. Once you’re ready to go, you are presented with the PhotoLab workspace. That’s small compared to the 2.6 GBs for Affinity Photo and 6.5 GBs for Luminar Neo. The installation took up 1.1 GB of hard drive space. The first thing I noticed about PhotoLab 6 is that it doesn’t take up a lot of space.

I tested DxO PhotoLab 6 on a late 2015 iMac, with 16 GB of DDR3 Ram and a 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 processor. Let’s look at using the software in action. That’s a pretty extensive list of features. Crop, Horizon, and Perspective Correction tools.

Color editing-including camera-profile-based editing.Denoising-including AI-powered DeepPRIME XD mode.Extensive Optics Modules for camera and lens corrections.But it will happily handle JPEG and TIFF files. Overview of DxO PhotoLab 6ĭxO PhotoLab 6 is designed to work with RAW images. And it is no easy job to persuade a busy photographer to switch from the familiar to something new. There’s no doubt that Adobe’s Lightroom is the dominant force in the field. So let’s unpack those claims and take a look at DxO PhotoLab 6 and what it can (and can’t) do. It aims to be “the most advanced, end-to-end, RAW photo editing software” on the market. DxO PhotoLab 6 is the latest editing app from the French software company DxO.
