Replacing DxO PureRAW with PhotoLabĪs you may be aware, DxO PhotoLab is a full RAW converter and extremely capable as an editing tool, not to mention a library manager to organise your photos. Now let’s look at how to achieve the same benefits using DxO PhotoLab. I say may, as Lightroom handles some RAW file types and lenses quite well but is poor with others. Because of this you may see an improvement in the image quality of the photo. The benefit is that PureRAW has handled the Demosaic of the RAW file and applied optical corrections. You can then process the resulting DNG file in the Lightroom Develop module using the Lightroom editing tools. Your workflow would be to use Lightroom to select your best images and then pre-process those to DNG files using DxO PureRAW. This is the ideal scenario for DxO Pure RAW. You also like the Lightroom editing tools in the Develop module but see some issues in the image quality that you think could be improved. You have used Lightroom for years and have invested a lot of time into organising your photos with it. Imagine a situation where you are using Adobe Lightroom to manage your photos and edit your RAW files.

Let’s look at a simple scenario to explain how and help understand what PureRAW is doing.

Interestingly, if you have DxO PhotoLab you can make it do the same thing (perhaps even better) as DxO PureRAW. But if you use another RAW converter like Adobe Lightroom, the quality improvement when using PureRAW may be quite noticeable.

PureRAW uses the same RAW processing engine and optical corrections as PhotoLab, so you won’t gain anything by pre-processing the RAW file.

At this point I want to stress that if your preferred RAW converter is DxO PhotoLab then there is no benefit from using DxO PureRAW.

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