PureRAW now in version 2

 DxO has recently released version 2 of DxO PureRAW, an automated tool that prepares raw files as DNGs for work in your favorite photo editor or outputs JPGs ready for uploading to social media or your image archives.


If you are not familiar with the original PureRAW, the app borrows some of the features in DxO PhotoLab Elite, the highly-regarded raw converter, to automatically produce demosaicing, denoising, optical correction and lens sharpening of raw files. Noise reduction choices include Noise Reduction HQ, Prime, and perhaps the best noise reduction on the market, DeepPRIME. DxO says you can gain up to two stops in low light because of ability to clean up the noise. DxO PureRAW can speed the workflow in your process of achieving the best quality rendering of raw files. 

Version 2 of PureRAW contains three new features: 

  • support for a Lightroom workflow, including a Lightroom plugin, 
  • support for a Mac Finder/Windows Explorer workflow and 
  • support for Fujifilm camera X-Trans files.

In the macOS Finder or Windows Explorer, right-clicking on a raw file produces the options for processing in PureRAW 2.


After you have used DxO PureRAW 2 in this way, a last-used option will also appear on this menu.

Who could benefit from DxO PureRAW 2? Obviously, those who use Lightroom Classic as a primary tool for cataloging and developing raw files would find efficiencies and quality improvements in their work output. But photographers who rely on another digital asset manager (DAM) or browser can easily add PureRAW to their workflows, too. Here's a workflow example using Photo Mechanic Plus.

  1. Add your raw files from your camera to your digital asset manager. There add any needed EXIF and IPTC data and map location information. 
  2. Send the file(s) to PureRAW, making selections for the output type (DNG or JPG) and destination. Select DNG if additional editing is planned for your photo editor. In this step, sharpening can be turned off if you don't like the degree of sharpening applied by PureRAW. PureRAW will check the camera-lens combination for each image and ask you to download a small preset file for each new combination found. You need do this only once for the camera-lens combination you have. 
  3. Open the DNG in the photo editor for additional work. This step can be skipped for use-ready JPGs coming out of PureRAW. 
  4. Open the new image(s) in your browser/DAM, adding any additional EXIF/IPTC data needed. Export to social media, printing, etc.

The price for DxO PureRAW 2 is $129 USD for new users, $90 USD upgrade from version 1. If you already own the latest version of DxO PhotoLab Elite, using it as your primary converter and editor, there's no need to purchase PureRAW 2. The same applies if you already own version 1 of PureRAW and are not interested in the new features offered by version 2.

DxO offers a 30-day trial version to help you evaluate the product.


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