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  • I only had a Nikon D5200 and Lightroom 5.7 for a very long time. About a year ago, I bought a Fuji X100V for travel and street photography. My Lightroom version is too old for my Fuji camera. I tried all the other competitors and decided to buy DxO Photolab 7 only because of the raw rendering. It doesn’t have a catalog, only a file browser so it’s not great for organizing large numbers of images. Adobe bridge is much faster.

    I have Affinity Photo. I like it a lot but not for raw development. I’m using the Nik Collection to do the final adjustment. It’s not the best workflow but I’m getting pretty good results.


  • 2024 version just came out. They say it has major speed and ui improvements. I haven’t imported my full library yet. I’ve been using a small catalog for testing the free trial. I think for the price, it’s good and worth a try.

    The reason I’m looking for a new raw editor is because my old non-subscription version Lightroom(5.7) doesn’t support my new camera’s raw files.

    I’ve tried C1 many times but I’ve never been happy the interface and raw rendering. I like on1 probably more than C1. C1 is a heavy program in my experience. On1 is faster on my computer.

    DxO photolab 7 is currently my top choice for Lightroom replacement. It’s not perfect. Raw rendering is great and it gives me a great starting point but the other tools aren’t as good. My main problem is the tone curve is poorly implemented. I haven’t explored the catalog tools yet. It’s double the price of on1.