You can then process the resulting DNG file in the Lightroom Develop module using the Lightroom editing tools. Your workflow would be to use Lightroom to select your best images and then pre-process those to DNG files using DxO PureRAW. This is the ideal scenario for DxO Pure RAW. You also like the Lightroom editing tools in the Develop module but see some issues in the image quality that you think could be improved.

You have used Lightroom for years and have invested a lot of time into organising your photos with it. Imagine a situation where you are using Adobe Lightroom to manage your photos and edit your RAW files. Let’s look at a simple scenario to explain how and help understand what PureRAW is doing.

Interestingly, if you have DxO PhotoLab you can make it do the same thing (perhaps even better) as DxO PureRAW. But if you use another RAW converter like Adobe Lightroom, the quality improvement when using PureRAW may be quite noticeable. PureRAW uses the same RAW processing engine and optical corrections as PhotoLab, so you won’t gain anything by pre-processing the RAW file. At this point I want to stress that if your preferred RAW converter is DxO PhotoLab then there is no benefit from using DxO PureRAW.

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