Photographers: Free Copy of the Amazing DXO OpticsPro 9

[Something Fishy]

http://www.dxo.com/us/digitalcamerauk

This normally costs $199.

I've had this for a number of years now and highly recommend it. It's similar to Lightroom and does your typical RAW editing and so on, but the beauty lies in its incredible noise reduction capabilities. Whenever I have a picture that's hopelessly noisy (either from too-high an ISO or waaay underexposed) I drop it into OpticsPro and let the magic happen. Lightroom and Photoshop don't even come close.

This is not the very latest version (that would be 11), but you'd get pretty much the same denoising capabilities. I'm still on 9, myself.

[jj1000]

You mean video editing? Pictures don't have noise.

[tageed-lee]

You mean video editing? Pictures don't have noise.

ALOL!

[whYME]

just got and now I'm coming back here to see what it is

[springles]

thanks, not sure if I am at the stage of editing pictures in post to remove noise yet but got the program and maybe I will play around with it a little

[Something Fishy]

You mean video editing? Pictures don't have noise.

LOL

Here:

And then we have ISO. As discussed in the last lesson, the higher the ISO, the more noise in the picture. To keep a perfectly sharp and clean picture the ISO should be as low as possible. That's why when you need more light, you may have to go back to your aperture or shutter speed.

These two pictures (taken from the last lesson) show the clear difference between a low ISO (400), low noise picture (top) and a high ISO (8000), high noise picture (bottom):

[Something Fishy]

BTW this is also a decent alternative for editing RAW files without paying for Lightroom. It's not the same of course, but pretty darn good for free.

[springles]

LOL

Here:

Do you have a lesson on using this program to remove noise?

[Something Fishy]

Do you have a lesson on using this program to remove noise?

No, but it's pretty straightforward.

[shwarmabob]

Do you use it in combination with Lightroom? LR processing first?

[Something Fishy]

Do you use it in combination with Lightroom? LR processing first?

I do DXO first, so that it could work on the RAW file. I then save as TIFF and finish in LR.

If I need to do something in LR that requires the RAW too, I'd process the RAW in both and then manually blend in PS.

If only saving an edited file in RAW were possible, but alas, by definition, it isn't.

[whYME]

If only saving an edited file in RAW were possible, but alas, by definition, it isn't.

sidecar files?

[Something Fishy]

sidecar files?

Defeats the purpose.

[whYME]

Defeats the purpose.

Good point, I didn't really think that one through.