corposant wrote:
Still very satisfied with PureRaw + Adobe user however I'm always heartened to see DXO (or anybody) continue to innovate and push Adobe and their mutual competitors to continue to create and improve features. Some of the selection (AI and regular) tools in Photoshop are mind-blowing and probably overkill for most people but as DXO gains a foothold they do trickle down to Lightroom eventually.
The way that DXO scatters some of their PL features throughout their individual software is a little aggravating (I know they want to get more PL customers and fewer VP or PR buyers) but it's forgivable since they are a much smaller company than Adobe.
A few things.
I’m also an Adobe user — my workflow is Bridge/ACR/Photoshop based. Yeah, I know. Everyone else uses Lightroom. It is a long story. But I agree that it is good that there are other companies working to compete with Adobe, since that encourages all of the companies to make their products better. I worried about that way back when Aperture (anyone else remember that?) got cancelled.
Speaking of (maybe) overkill, Adobe has been rolling out some pretty astonishing (likely AI based) features recently that are very powerful. Some of the automatic selections, whole subject to some goofs, are quite amazing. I “accidentally” discovered a few weeks ago that there is now a “landscape” masking feature that will attempt (often successfully, and in other case good enough to only require quick manual touchup) things ike water, sky, vegetation and so on.
I don’t know how this works in the non-Adobe products (I suspect they offer analogs) but the ability to combine masks in Adobe products is also extremely powerful, letting you add and/or subtract elements of the scene with a great deal of flexibility.
Sep 06, 2025 at 09:39 AM
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