However, when DXO added Fujifilm support they tapped into the Deep Prime engine to get superior raw conversions, and this seems to hold true based on my experience. So, what is Deep Prime? The technology uses artificial intelligence to denoise an image at the demosiacing stage of the raw conversion process. To get the best quality conversions with PhotoLab, you need to use the software’s Deep Prime noise reduction technology. If you hadn’t read that previous article, don’t worry, I’m going to cover everything again now anyway. The second thing that is different, is that you’re only going to use the DNG with optical corrections only setting. The first is that you don’t need to worry about setting the colour profile, as you’re going to set that in Lightroom anyway. The settings to use when pre-processing files in PhotoLab are more or less the same as what I recommended in my previous article about using PhotoLab for Fuji files, but with a few exceptions. How to pre-process in PhotoLab and what settings to use Just click download when the pop-up dialog appears.

If it’s the first time you’ve used this lens and camera combination in PhotoLab, it will ask you to download the corresponding Lens Correction Module(s). This will then open the RAW files in PhotoLab. From the File Menu, choose: Plug-in Extras > Transfer to Photo Lab 5.

In Lightroom, Select the photos you want to send to PhotoLab.Here’s what to do to send your images to PhotoLab Luckily, PhotoLab makes it easy to send files from Lightroom to Photo Lab and back.

Given the time and file sizes involved, you’re probably better processing one at a time, or in small batches. As with any of these kinds of workflows, you’re presented with two options - convert everything first, or process images one at a time.

Dxo photolab 2 workflow