DxO Optics Pro 8 - Free

Hey Guys,

Saw a thread about a $5 deal for DxO optics pro..
seems like they are giving it away for free in a promotion by Digital Photographer magazine...
Offer valid till Jan 31, 2015

If anyone hasn't seen it or want to try it-
DxO & Digital Photographer | www.dxo.com

WhiteLight said:

(PS - Errr.. can someone ask a mod to change the * to 8 in the title)

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You can do that yourself, full edit mode.

I'm willing to give this a shot... My camera/lens combo's are all fully supported so why not, eh?

The software gets pretty good reviews from what I've read.

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I dowloaded it and haven't really found anything that LR doesn't have. The layout is a little different, but only played with one jpg. Need to bring in a RAW. I figured why not because it was free as well.

Just remember that this is only a 31 day trial. I agree that it's just like LR.

Kevin is right in that I don't see it doing anything that Photoshop won't but I'm thinking I might use Optics Pro to batch process all my RAW files so I would have distortion corrected versions to work with in Camera RAW since I use Camera RAW to do most, if not all of the corrections I want to do to an image prior to sending it to Photoshop for creative modifications. I'm just not sure how well Optics Pro is going to play with other applications yet and I need to figure that out.

That being said, Optics Pro really does work and works well from what I've seen. I handed Optics Pro a slew of RAW files I shot just the other day, about 50 or so, and there was no doubt: the corrections were impressive and the processing fast.

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