They paid me back straight away, but I still had a 7-day free trial. Bought it at the outset, thought it was brilliant for an hour or so, like many people, then decided it was deeply compromised (which it is), so got a refund (like lots of others I subsequently discovered). Bought it, rejected it, got refund.Īn odd one. DxO and Capture 1 stood out to me, each for slightly different reasons. The differences really appeared with images where noise is unavoidable. In terms of processing capability the lesson for me was with a good quality picture out of the camera, all of the software packages did a satisfactory job. Technical support tried to be helpful but I ended up with a prompt refund. I also experienced several crashes to my Mac Pro with On1 after I had bought it. The difference was massive, with DxO producing a very usable result and On1 failing to get close. The On1 image was really noisy and so I tried it against my trail copy of DxO 4. These were of a robin feeding under a bay tree in the snow. Then I needed to process some difficult images taken from a Canon 5DIII with a 400mm lens in low light and at high ISO. I tried this and thought it was satisfactory so I bought it. On1 2021 £79 (discount vouchers reduce this by about 15%) It’s far better integrated but is not twice as good and currently does not offer the sky replacement module that Photoshop has. On a monthly subscription it’s twice the price of the Adobe photography package. It’s annoying that they penalise Canon users with significantly higher prices than the other major brands. I’m not a professional and I felt I might have buyer’s remorse due to the price. Why didn’t I buy? A lot of moans on the internet, mostly about high cost and too short upgrade cycle stopped me just before I pressed the buy button. But only 2 “seats” which is a bit of an issue. Best library, best training tips and instruction videos, best user interface. Overall it’s the best piece of software I tried. But…when I compared it with “difficult” images processed in Photolab DxO 4 Elite or Adobe Lightroom Classic no one could tell the difference except that DxO was better at noise reduction with deep Prime on relevant images. I really like the usability, and some elements of cataloguing, layout tethering and quality of images. This will be an occasional user, not an everyday tool.Ĭapture One 21 £20 a month subscription. It’s handy as my wife takes a lot of horticultural shots with a 100mm L macro lens and later we often struggle with what she meant to focus on. But I bought it partly because it shows camera focus points which I used to like in Aperture and as far as I found nothing else does this. Layers for doing things like skin healing is very usable, though I needed to watch a tutorial first. There is nothing that we use in Photoshop that this can’t do. (NIK, in my case v1 is a powerfull program but it works slightly different in UI if you get used to controlpoints of DxOPL which drive me nuts if i like to do a quick adjustment after DxOPL.RAW processor and library tools - DecidersĪffinity £24 Bought it for my son, and back up for me for a few tasks. want to have PLv3 and think that by route of buy NIKv2 and upgrade to elite is the cheapest option? well i would go for DxOPLv3 suite elite and be done with it.If you want NIKcollections v2 and think of PL as preproduction: go for the upgrade to elite v3 after buying NIKv2.As a preproduction “load raw, presets by ISO value, export” and run in other app for finalisation well go for a Elite to use PRIME, optical correction and sharpening and nothing else.I maybe not helpfull with my text above but i can’t see which way you want to use the Photolab application. Those can be pluged in any time in DxOPL so no worry’s. Lot of things in NIK can also be done in PL (and if you look for it DxO-NIKv1 is still available for those moments you like to use it.) but if you used to NIK and use it a lot maybe the buy NIK and upgrade to v3 elite is the option wile VP and FP are for a next time when there is a sale. The Suite elite is the one you would like to have then. The perspective tool Viewpoint, wel i was used to do that by hand and the quick repair i can do in Viewpoint safes a lot of time. If you gona use DPLv3 as your main application and not as a form of pre production tool the Viewpoint and Filmpack bring a lot more then just some film emulation and auto perspective.įirst it’s RAW capable as a fully embedded plugin in PL and you get a much better tone control when Filmpack (elite) is active.