dxo

It’s a milestone version release of the Nik Collection for DxO software today. They acquired Nik Collection from Google in 2017 and immediately set about making it their own. Six years later, that task has been completed, with every line of code rewritten.

The new Nik Collection 6.3 (buy here) release also brings some great new features, including an improved sharpener, HDR Efex, and searchable presets. It also now adds support for high DPI displays and multiple monitor setups.

DxO has announced Nik Collection 6, the latest upgrade to the suite of plugins that enhance the photo editing power of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Other than improvements to the existing tools, the plugin has been revamped to get a new interface and more functionalities that give you more control over your edits. So, let’s dive in and see what’s new in the Nik Collection 6.

DxO has announced another big addition to its collection of Optics Modules. These are used in DxO’s raw processing software, including DxO PhotoLab, PureRaw, FilmPack and Viewpoint, to correct for lens distortion, chromatic aberration and other issues. This new update brings support for a number of new camera and lens combos, including the recently released Canon EOS R8 (buy here) and Canon EOS R50 (buy here) mirrorless cameras.

The total number of camera and lens combinations now contained within DxO’s Optics Modules database is over 82,000. This data has been collected over the last 20 years to bring the best possible optics correction available to their software. As well as correcting for distortion, they also fix chromatic aberration, and vignetting as well as sharpness correction for soft lenses.

DxO has announced the latest PhotoLab 6.3 version of its popular photo editing software. The new update brings with it a new DxO Wide Gamut colour space, new soft proofing with paper and ink simulations, an easier way to install DxO Optics Modules for new camera and lens combinations you shoot with and a better cropping system for optically corrected images.

The DxO Wide Gamut colour space was introduced in PhotoLab 6. Until now, though, it’s only been able to support raw files. The new update sees its capabilities expanded to JPG and TIFF files, giving greater flexibility when adjusting them in post. The new paper and ink simulations will also allow you to more accurately preview how your images will look when printed using standard ICC profiles.

DxO has announced a big addition to its Optics Modules for its raw processing software, including DxO PhotoLab, PureRAW, FilmPack and Viewpoint. This new update brings the total number of camera and lens combinations DxO software supports, collected over the past 20 years, up to over 80,000 different setups.

The latest update adds automatic correction support for images shot with the Canon EOS R6 Mark II, Sony A7R V, Fujifilm X-T5 and the OM System OM-5 with a whole array of existing lenses in the database, along with the addition of several Sigma and Tokina lenses for a wide range of mirrorless cameras.

DxO has announced their newest version of PhotoLab. PhotLab 6 comes with brand new DeepPRIME XD denoising tech, with advanced colour management features – including a whole new colour space – powerful new retouching tools and refinements to its media library system.

DxO’s DeepPRIME tech has been around for a little while now, but the new DeepPRIME XD (eXtreme Details) mode adds further quality enhancements to help remove noise while keeping the details in high ISO raw files. It uses a neural network trained on billions of images to give noise level improvements of more than 2.5 stops, the company claims.

DxO has announced the newest Nik Collection 5 release. The familiar 8-tool suite of plugins for Photoshop and Lightroom also comes with a brand new haze reduction tool and 29 “faithfully reproduced colour film grains” for your retro editing pleasure. The plugins also all act as standalone apps outside of the Adobe ecosystem, with access to over 300 presets and an array of intuitive sliders to tweak your images.

For long-time users, you might see some big changes as the user interfaces of Nik Color Efex and Analog Efex have been rebuilt from the ground up. Of course, they will steel somewhat familiar to some of you as they’ve been redesigned to fall more in line with the recently updated Silver Efex and Viveza applications.

DxO has announced DxO PureRaw 2 which brings with it some pretty big performance increases, with a 50% speed boost on Windows and runs up to four times faster on Apple Silicon-based Macs. The new release also adds support for Fujifilm’s X-Trans files, promising “demosaicing and denoising like you’ve never seen before” that “corrects every possible lens defect”.

Like the previous version, PureRAW 2 uses convolutional neural networks to perform the demosaicing and denoising process. But over its predecessor, it sees a couple of new ways of working. You can pre-process your images from directly within Lightroom, to generate already-enhanced Linear DNG files for editing, or you can do it straight from the Windows Explorer or macOS Finder interface.

DxO has to today announced the newest versions of its PhotoLab and FilmPack applications. PhotoLab 5 features improved sensitivity control over adjustments, better metadata management, a more efficient DeepPRIME engine that’s up to four times faster than the previous version, Fujifilm X-Trans RAW support.

FilmPack 6 also sees X-Trans support along with a new “Time Machine” feature that takes the user journey through time of how analogue photography has evolved over the years with renderings you can apply to your images. Fifteen new film stocks have also been added including popular ones from Kodak, Polaroid, Impossible, Fuji X film simulations and cinematic colour grades.