But I do want to show you one area where there’s a bit of noise in this photo. Now, this is not a high ISO image and usually, you might think that PureRAW is really just for those really high ISO images to get rid of incredible noise and it does that really well but as you can see here, it does an incredible job just enhancing even low ISO images. Just an absolutely dramatic improvement in here. Zoom all the way in there and right away, you can see a huge difference on the left versus the right how much softer the image is on the left versus the much sharper, much higher contrast image on the right. I’m going to go ahead and look at this at a one-to-one zoom. I can take a quick look at the results of this so I can see just how good these results are. What do you want to do next? We can export it straight to our host app, or I want to go ahead and view the results. That M1 processor is just screaming right now. In fact, I ran some tests comparing my baby M1 MacBook Air - the very first M1 processor to this Mac Pro and the Mac Pro is only a little bit faster. However, I will point out that on the M1 processor, the speed has improved dramatically over the previous version of Pure Raw. Maybe a little bit quicker than what you’re used to seeing. I’m working on a Mac Pro here which has got a ton of power and so, this processing is actually going to be pretty quick. I’m just going to leave everything at its default and click on Process. By default they go into a subfolder called “DxO” in the same folder as the original images, or you can create a custom folder if you want to. Underneath that you have your format option you can choose to process this as a JPEG or as DNG, and then finally your destination folder where will the new files go. So if you wanted either one of these off you can go ahead and toggle that, and this is due to popular request from the users . Underneath that, we have the option to turn off Global Lens Sharpening or the Lens Distortion Correction. Once it’s processed photos from that particular camera, it’ll know roughly how long it takes and it will give you that estimate. Underneath that, you’ll see an estimated processing time. Do you want HQ (high quality), PRIME or DeepPRIME? DeepPRIME of course being the best possible quality. First of all, from the top, you choose your method of RAW processing. And then to process it, click on the Process Photos button and this brings up the process dialogue which if you haven’t seen this in a while, you may actually be seeing a couple of new things in here. I don’t want to process all of these photos for this demo I’ll just do one, so I’ll go ahead and select one, let’s say this one here. Now that I’ve got my photos in place, I’m ready to process them. I’ll never have to see that again for this particular camera and lens combo. So here you can see these were shot on a Panasonic Lumix S1R which is a very high resolution, almost 50 megapixel camera with the 24-105mm lens, and it says here “To be downloaded” - I click on Download Selection… as you can see there it’s quite small, downloads very quickly, click on Save and that’s it. Now, once they’re downloaded, you never have to do it again and they’re always very small so it’s quick to do but every time you add a new camera and lens combination photo to your collection, you’ll need to go ahead and download the module for that. These modules allow us to process the images with the absolute utmost quality, and a module has to be downloaded for each individual camera and lens combination. You’ve probably heard about the DxO Optics Modules before and how this is a critical part of how DxO software works. Now, the first thing that pops up is this DxO Optics Modules download. This could be photos that I’ve just copied off of a memory card, and drag them into the interface. So, I’ll switch back over to the Finder, select all these photos from a new shoot. I can click on the Add Photos to Process button or as you see here, simply drag and drop. There’s not a whole lot going on in here until we add some photos. So, to start off, this is the basic interface. We’re starting off directly in DxO PureRAW 2, and just in case you either haven’t seen this before or maybe it’s been a while since you’ve looked at it, I do want to show you how the app works just on its own.
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