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The previous version was a stand alone application that allowed you to convert your Raw photos to DNG or Jpegs using the companies Deep Prime noise reduction, while also taking advantage of the renowned DXO optical corrections.DxO PureRAW 2 is very good at handing images with large areas of bokeh. Here’s the official blurb from the company:ĭxO PureRAW uses convolutional neural networks to perform the demosaicing and denoising processes of RAW image conversion simultaneously. Having been trained using millions of example images, the network is able to produce results that far exceed those made by human-designed algorithms, giving users Linear DNG files that have all of the flexibility of the original RAW file but with the best possible image quality in terms of colour, noise, and fine detail.

In addition, DxO PureRAW uses DxO’s highly regarded Optics Modules, a database of more than 70,000 lens and camera body combinations that provide the highest levels of lens sharpness, corrections to geometric distortions, vignetting, and aberrations.

The workflow was a bit of a pain though, especially if you were working with Lightroom (Classic). This has been directly addressed in version 2, and Pure Raw 2 now works as a Lightroom Plug-in, so you can process your files directly within Lightroom. What’s more, it will retain any edits you have made in Lightroom, keeping them non-destructive if you use the DNG option. It’s even clever enough to turn off the noise reduction and sharpening settings on the processed DNG.

The company had previously added Fuji X-Trans support to Photo Lab 5 and I wrote at the time that I suspected X-trans support in Pure Raw would be forthcoming, and now here it is: Here’s a list of supported X-Trans cameras: One of the things I suspect many of my readers will be most interested in is the Fuji X-Trans support.

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