Hi All,
Ok, I’ve been lurking here, reading, thinking. Trying to determine if DxO PhotoLab is right for me. Started my trial today. Hi everyone!
A few random questions that I’m hoping can get answered here:
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Speed - ok, so of course, like all of you, photo selection is a big deal. I shoot live music, and after I shoot, I need to go through sometimes 2,000 images to select which ones I want to keep/edit. The speed of PhotoLab concerns me. Bringing up each fully rendered image takes a while. (I’m on an i7 iMac) I’ve kept the setting to use the “DxO Standard” preset for RAW images selected. Do y’all shut that off to make the speed more tolerable? Any other tips relating to this? The 2 or 3 seconds to see the photo is kinda tough to swallow…
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Sidecar files. Ok, I found a thread where y’all are discussing sidecar files… Using them will be new to me, and I’m not sure I have a choice if I use PhotoLab, but I always edit locally on my SSD, and then move my NEFs and JPGs to a NAS. I see that there’s a database file that will probably be screwed up when I do that, but not sure that matters. Can anyone comment on that? If I have the original NEF and the DOP file, and they are named the same, am I cool?
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Saving edits. It LOOKS like if I make an edit and then select another image, that my edits are saved. Is that right?
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I found a thread on here where someone requested a brush tool to remove parts of the image that you DON’T want to be influenced by an “auto selected” control point - meaning you placed it and NxO did its best to make a selection - not always perfect (of course). I see that this is being considered. Wow, seems like a MUST HAVE tool! I used it all the time with NX2. Hope that is gonna be added!
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Learning PhotoLab - hm. Seems like the best way is to watch and re-watch this. https://www.dxo.com/us/photography/dxo-academy/product-how-’s/dxo-photolab-camera-export Right?
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Virtual copy - so I THINK you use this if you want several different treatments for the same image, for example?
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When you “reset” an image, you are basically going back to ONLY using what the “DxO Standard” preset has, right (if you keep that preference setting)? It looks like I can’t edit that preset, so if I want to change something, I just create a new preset, right?
Thanks all!
Jon in San Francisco