It has also shuttered its nascent hardware business altogether, and spun off its DxOMark camera, lens and smartphone testing lab as a separate company in 2017. The software does not allow any interface customization and is therefore not able to conform to the workflow of photographers using multi-screen configurations.First launched in early 2004 under the name Optics Pro, DxO rebranded its Raw processor as PhotoLab back in 2017 to better reflect that its capabilities now go far beyond just lens corrections, and simultaneously absorbed the popular Nik Collection plugins from Google for integration into its own software. Some menus appear directly on the image you are working on which is purely aberrant. The team in charge of the UX-UI has certainly never used their software to work a shooting session of more than 10 shots.

The ergonomics of the software is disastrous. The strength of photolab is to benefit from the various technologies of the Dxo brand, such as noise reduction, optical correction, optical management.

Not offering a file catalog, and setting up an interface close to the Windows file browser, the software therefore loses a lot of its interest compared to the competition.Although it has the advanced technologies of the Dxo brand in terms of optical management and noise reduction, the software is not very pleasant to use with its fixed interface and very late compared to the competition.the software could claim a very good second place on the podium, but finds itself in a poor position of third, or even fourth, relying too much on its technicality and taking absolutely no account of user comfort.As a result, the software is very difficult to integrate into a professional workflow. However the software falls very far from its target.

Comments: Dxo announces itself and presents itself as an interesting alternative to the main player in the Adobe photoshop lightroom market.

Photolab review