Thank you for taking the time to do this wonderful video on the new release of Photolab 8, I really enjoyed watching it and learned something new, muchas gracias ❤🎉❤
I´m convinced the update of Photolab 8 is logical step of every serious DXO user. We use normally DXO Photolob because it´s make our photos better, it gives us the impression to use more expensive gear. And this is the point where the update delivers. The denoising is from another planet, the sharping ist base on a new algorythm as I heard, we have luminance masking and a very helpful loupe. But if you want to play with exchanging the sky or you want much help from ai to create new pictures, than DXO Photolab is not your tool.
I'm an amateur micro four-thirds shooter and already have v6, plus a Lightroom subscription and Topaz Photo AI. Denoising high ISO photos is of real benefit. Still on the fence with my upgrade decision mainly due to the $105 price tag.Thanks for your excellent review, and for drawing attention to their quiet launch. That troubles me too as it seems as if they could be avoiding the obvious question from their customers: why no new masking.
Your channel is consistently good. I have learnt a lot of affinity and I also have dxo photolab 7. I won’t upgrade. I just bought it three months ago. Can’t justify it. For me DeepPrimeXD is awesome on my Canon 7D mark ii and I’m happy with my gear. Great video. Underrated channel
I've been a user of DxO since the days you had to buy individual camera body modules and lens correction files. I regularly upgraded Optics Pro through the years and jumped to PhotoLab when it was released. I'm now on PL 7, but I don't think this upgrade has enough "meat." I'll wait and see what future versions bring to the table.
Yes that was my thought too. I thought this release was a carbon copy of last year. Really unusual to have so little new features in Photolab. They have to reassure customers on the future road map.
Having trialled PL7 , decided that pure raw 4 coupled with LRC is a much better option! So I will stick with Lightroom for now. Thanks for the review..
The only thing that would impress me and have me dropping every other program for Photolab is if photolab had a AI precision masking tool, the other apps have it, but photolab is still behind in this? Why? It’s frustrating to see them focus on every other feature expect for AI masking. What’s the point of all these features if I can’t easily make a targeted selection?
I agree it quite worrying that they have not implemented AI masking until today when every other has. That why I thought they needed to do a Q&A to reassure customers.
And not wanting to answer the Capt. Obvious question: "Why aren't you developing masking?!?" is probably a key reason DxO didn't want to do a Q&A! (Excellent review, TBP.)
I'll probably wait until Black Friday to upgrade. I do like to use PL as my main RAW photo processor but have to keep LR/PS as B/U because of the things that PL doesn't cover ie panos, iPhone, HDR, occasional layer composting. Also I had to rely on LR as my RAW processor for almost a month after I bought the new Canon R5 MarkII because it took that long for PL to provide support for the files while Adobe supported them from the release of the camera.
I have tested version 8 against 6, just like I did when 7 came out last year and again, I just don't see $109 dollars worth of upgrades, not even with 7 and 8 combined. Where is the vignette tool? I supposed this is something slipped into filmpack just like the luminosity masking feature. This "ring fencing" of features has really turned me against DXO. I don't see me upgrading again.
Yes I think a lot of customers feel this way. I thought this release was a 7.1 level upgrade certainly not 8. They should have given away Luminosity Mask if their not adding anything important like AI masking.
I’m upgrading from PL6. There are always vey incremental updates. I think this PL8 gives slightly more than the average upgrade. I will probably keep upgrading every other year since one then is able to upgrade and not buy it new as if you skip more than 1 version.
Honestly version 7 made the difference, 8 remains with an upgrade that is not entirely justifiable. If you have NIK 7, you already have the color selection masks, the Luma curve that has been in Capture One for years has been in NIK 7 for a year now. So why do they insist on keeping two separate programs? Make them pay for a complete one and go. As for the noise, I don't know why but Capture One does it very well. I like DXO for its simplicity but this expense is not justified for now. Then lastly, why NIK 7 has the language in Italian and DXO "doesn't" is all to understand!
Perhaps two different teams are working on Nik and Photolab hence the inconsistency. I thought they would at least add in luminosity masking if they were not going to add AI masking. Instead we get hue mask which is of much more limited utility. Makes no sense. They need to do a Q&A to answer what's going on with Photolab.
@@takebetterphotos8132 Correct, today I have version 7 (with some annoying limitations) which could be a nice suite but is fine for quick developments on all the HDs I have without creating catalogs and more. But then you see all this and you see other SW like ON1 that I have always owned and for the new version it seems to include many new features! Even here I do not intend to upgrade because the basic AI for the sw does not fit into my concepts of development. I prefer that these algorithms work only on the masks to have maximum precision and today there is only one sw Capture One that satisfies me! (I do not use Adobe and I have Affinity for any additional work where I really hope they give a twist to this latest sw) See you soon and always a nice to see your videos.
You just saved me $100 on upgrade fees. Thank you for your work.
Glad I could help!
Thank you for taking the time to do this wonderful video on the new release of Photolab 8, I really enjoyed watching it and learned something new, muchas gracias ❤🎉❤
Glad to hear it! Let me know if your getting it!😊
I´m convinced the update of Photolab 8 is logical step of every serious DXO user. We use normally DXO Photolob because it´s make our photos better, it gives us the impression to use more expensive gear. And this is the point where the update delivers. The denoising is from another planet, the sharping ist base on a new algorythm as I heard, we have luminance masking and a very helpful loupe. But if you want to play with exchanging the sky or you want much help from ai to create new pictures, than DXO Photolab is not your tool.
I'm an amateur micro four-thirds shooter and already have v6, plus a Lightroom subscription and Topaz Photo AI. Denoising high ISO photos is of real benefit. Still on the fence with my upgrade decision mainly due to the $105 price tag.Thanks for your excellent review, and for drawing attention to their quiet launch. That troubles me too as it seems as if they could be avoiding the obvious question from their customers: why no new masking.
Your channel is consistently good. I have learnt a lot of affinity and I also have dxo photolab 7. I won’t upgrade. I just bought it three months ago. Can’t justify it. For me DeepPrimeXD is awesome on my Canon 7D mark ii and I’m happy with my gear. Great video. Underrated channel
I've been a user of DxO since the days you had to buy individual camera body modules and lens correction files. I regularly upgraded Optics Pro through the years and jumped to PhotoLab when it was released. I'm now on PL 7, but I don't think this upgrade has enough "meat." I'll wait and see what future versions bring to the table.
Yes that was my thought too. I thought this release was a carbon copy of last year. Really unusual to have so little new features in Photolab. They have to reassure customers on the future road map.
Having trialled PL7 , decided that pure raw 4 coupled with LRC is a much better option! So I will stick with Lightroom for now. Thanks for the review..
The only thing that would impress me and have me dropping every other program for Photolab is if photolab had a AI precision masking tool, the other apps have it, but photolab is still behind in this? Why? It’s frustrating to see them focus on every other feature expect for AI masking. What’s the point of all these features if I can’t easily make a targeted selection?
I agree it quite worrying that they have not implemented AI masking until today when every other has. That why I thought they needed to do a Q&A to reassure customers.
@@takebetterphotos8132 Agreed, they need too do a Q&A.
And not wanting to answer the Capt. Obvious question: "Why aren't you developing masking?!?" is probably a key reason DxO didn't want to do a Q&A! (Excellent review, TBP.)
Always good and clear explanations. Et voilà! (waiting all that in french now I did notice you can speak that language!)
I'll probably wait until Black Friday to upgrade. I do like to use PL as my main RAW photo processor but have to keep LR/PS as B/U because of the things that PL doesn't cover ie panos, iPhone, HDR, occasional layer composting. Also I had to rely on LR as my RAW processor for almost a month after I bought the new Canon R5 MarkII because it took that long for PL to provide support for the files while Adobe supported them from the release of the camera.
I have tested version 8 against 6, just like I did when 7 came out last year and again, I just don't see $109 dollars worth of upgrades, not even with 7 and 8 combined. Where is the vignette tool? I supposed this is something slipped into filmpack just like the luminosity masking feature. This "ring fencing" of features has really turned me against DXO. I don't see me upgrading again.
Yes I think a lot of customers feel this way. I thought this release was a 7.1 level upgrade certainly not 8. They should have given away Luminosity Mask if their not adding anything important like AI masking.
No, you certainly won't be upgrading from V6 to V9+ as DXO only allow upgrade from 2 versions.
I’m upgrading from PL6.
There are always vey incremental updates. I think this PL8 gives slightly more than the average upgrade.
I will probably keep upgrading every other year since one then is able to upgrade and not buy it new as if you skip more than 1 version.
It's amazing software, but unless you can do HDR, focus stacking or compositing panoramas on it, it's just not usable for me.
Yes they need to put in more features!
For these things I have Affinity Photo.
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Honestly version 7 made the difference, 8 remains with an upgrade that is not entirely justifiable. If you have NIK 7, you already have the color selection masks, the Luma curve that has been in Capture One for years has been in NIK 7 for a year now. So why do they insist on keeping two separate programs? Make them pay for a complete one and go. As for the noise, I don't know why but Capture One does it very well. I like DXO for its simplicity but this expense is not justified for now. Then lastly, why NIK 7 has the language in Italian and DXO "doesn't" is all to understand!
Perhaps two different teams are working on Nik and Photolab hence the inconsistency. I thought they would at least add in luminosity masking if they were not going to add AI masking. Instead we get hue mask which is of much more limited utility. Makes no sense. They need to do a Q&A to answer what's going on with Photolab.
@@takebetterphotos8132 Correct, today I have version 7 (with some annoying limitations) which could be a nice suite but is fine for quick developments on all the HDs I have without creating catalogs and more. But then you see all this and you see other SW like ON1 that I have always owned and for the new version it seems to include many new features! Even here I do not intend to upgrade because the basic AI for the sw does not fit into my concepts of development. I prefer that these algorithms work only on the masks to have maximum precision and today there is only one sw Capture One that satisfies me! (I do not use Adobe and I have Affinity for any additional work where I really hope they give a twist to this latest sw) See you soon and always a nice to see your videos.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes masking should be a priority for all companies!
I've been playing with the trial or some days. Not impressed. Doesn't support iphone very well, will not purchase.
Yes strangely they did not address shortcomings. Very worrying.