Hi, you probably breathed a sigh of relief and thought I had gone, but i do come back now and again and recommend CinC to lots of others All I ask is that others respect that and don't suggest that because I don't use Adobe products I am somehow a lesser being. So, to that extent, I am perfectly happy and see no need to change. I cannot see that I could produce better images by having these other tools. Given it's commerial success and the resources available for investment, I have no doubt that ACR and the other Adobe products offer incredibly useful and sensitive tools. This allows for an infinite adjustment of tone to a very fine degree. By far and away my favourite tool is the multi-point colour balance. Although I have made a couple of B & W conversion presets of my own, I tend to go with DxO's default. I have the DxO modules loaded in for all my camera/lens combinations, so that takes care of an awful lot automatically.įor conversion to B & W, my starting point is DxOs default conversion and I adjust from there. So, my touch in DxO and, then, in the GIMP is much less and lighter than it once was. Re DxO, as I've grown in experience and, hopefully, knowledge I'm better at capturing what I want to achieve as the end result. So thanks for letting me learn from your work I love photographs (and endeavor to create them) that are different from the way we normally see things whether it be a tasteful use of wide angle distortion or B/W. I snooped around your site and noticed your comments on shooting B/W since you suffer from a certain amount of color blindness (my father does too, he can't see reds and greens, they just look greyish brown to him.) I personally love the high emotional and visual impact of a well composed B/W image. You are obviously more proficient with than I am!
I personally found that with the newest version they made the controls a little clumsy since they added so much more range of adjustment to all the different controls. I like your work and it intrigues me that you use DxO.
My brother-in-law recently went to using Lightroom 3 from DxO and has been saying I should do the same. Thanks for the responses! From my experience I think ACR does a better job and makes finer adjustments.
#Dxo optics pro vs lightroom 3 upgrade#
You can always upgrade from several levels back. You can skip updates if you feel there is nothing much there for you. But if you want to put your shots out there in competitions, show at camera clubs, hang high-quality images on your wall, then I think you do need it.
If you are just doing family/pet shots, and never aim to do much other than enjoy your shots (nothing wrong with that) then you don't need it. Keep it for more than 10 years and that figure comes down. It's not exactly a lot, is it? If you are going to be a photographer for at least the next 10 years, then the total cost of the initial product and the upgrades works out at £1,730 or 47 pence a day.
That works out at £10 a month for the upgrades. You might be happy to pay £600 for a new lens, so why pull back at spending the same on a processing system that will do everything? The upgrades come out approximately every 18 months and cost about £180 - CS4 to CS5 cost that. I know CS5 is a big outlay, but consider it an investment.
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