My three go to presets are DxO Default, Portraits and Landscapes. When working with images in DxO, DxO applies a default preset for your camera and lens. I nearly always shoot in RAW and then do my post processing in DxO Photlab taking advantage of DxO Photolabs presets to correct my images and RAW files.

Aurora HDR’s strength is in tone mapping your images to provide a rich and colourful image with great tones. DxO Photolab’s strength is its ability to auto correct and enhance images based on the camera and lens in use. Combining DxO Photolab and Aurora HDRīoth of these programmes have there strengths and provide me with a very simple way of enhancing my images with a few clicks.

Recently I have been playing with combining DxO Photolab and Aurora HDR and enjoying the results.

As rewarding as this can be and the results amazing, I still find the learning curve to be steep and time consuming. As much as I enjoy photography, I am also one of those people that find it hard to get into using layers, complex masking and complex editing.

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