guywithgas wrote:
ruthenium wrote
gchappel wrote
I do not understand why photolab 9 removed the export as dng with corrections. It worked really well- I could import the dxo dng file into adobe camera raw- and still use the super resolution action. My color corrections just worked.
Now with the new improved version of dxo---- if I want to keep any corrections (and I found dxo masking worked really well with my images), I have to export it as a tiff.
I lose some of the flexability in camera raw with the tiff files.
Some how this is progress?
No reason I see to remove capabilities and still charge more for upgrades.
Sad I am
gary Gary, one reason for this change might be that on March 24, 2026, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) officially published ISO 12234-4, formally establishing the Digital Negative (DNG) format as the global standard for RAW image storage.
This makes me think that DxO might have removed the DNG "with correction" because, from now on, DNG files should confirm to the new standard.
I have used Photolab for a good number of years, and in my experience the product has significantly improved over the time. Features like denoising, masking, linear curve are excellent-to-outstanding.
My only reason to complain is about the four sliders that control highlights, midtones, shadows, and black. I wish DxO reworked this tool to make it more selective. In general, I feel that DxO deserve my support; it is good to have a healthy competition with Adobe and Capture One - I am willing to give them my money, unlike some other companies. @ruthenium@@ , thanks for the information about DNG being made as a standard RAW format. That makes a lot of sense now. However, as an end user I really would like to have the "download as DNG with corrections" option. I guess we can't have everything in life. Any idea when this option is going off of Photo Lab? PL 9 (Elite version) still offer this.
Sreedhar.
My understanding is that this feature was removed with the update on March 17 to version 9.6 (the latest is now 9.7).
You may have an earlier version if the option of exporting DNG with corrections is still there.