You point the software at your folder of RAW files and it builds a quick and dirty index of the contents, which are stored locally on your machine. Once you get control of the sheer variety of tools on offer, DxO starts to look like a genuine alternative to Capture One or Lightroom.ĭxO PhotoLab ditches the catalogues and libraries, in favour of more simplified editing. But it does deliver professional results. The defaults tend to be a little heavy handed for my style, and need dialling back for practical use. It also plays nicely with LUMIX cameras – but more on that later. What’s on offer is a lot of good technology, a half decent user interface and some simple pricing advantages. Today there are tonnes of options on the market, admittedly most of them "not quite right".ĭxO PhotoLabs is feature rich and quick to learn. Capture One was a clear winner back then.
Back then Aperture on MacOS was the main alternative, or you had to pull images through one by one in Photoshop.
We’re talking more than two decades ago when version 3 hit the internet and Lightroom didn’t even exist yet. I’ve been a Capture One fan since the early days. After an appalling lack of camera support from Capture One in 2022 I started looking seriously at my alternatives. Lightroom and Capture One get most of the attention when shopping for RAW Workflow software, but in recent years both have moved towards subscriber only pricing.
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