DxO OpticsPro for Photos App Reviews

Works well with other programs, great price point for the app.

If Family Sharing was available I’d give it 5 Stars. Optics Correction doesn’t work if you’ve already edited the photo with Photos.app. Unedited photos work fine, and DxO Optics Pro does a great job of auto correction. Fast and easy way to bring your photos to life.

If you’re going to call it DXO OpticsPro for Photos, the PRO in the name should mean that some granular options would be available like sliders to adjust amount of smart-lighting applied.. maybe some basic development tools aswell would help..not just 1 click options…. Macphun accomplishes this for all of their Photos extensons masterfully...hopefully the DXO devs will add this in the future!

No free trial. Round tripping slow (slow to get out of Photos into DXO and slow go get back to Photos). Limited set of adjustments, could not get rid of purple fringing as I was able to do in the full version of DXO.

this extension does nothing you can’t do with the original photos app. and it is very slow. don’t waste your money.

The app works and does what it says. I’m impressed with the results but expect to wait 10-20 seconds after most clicks.

This extension is excellent for quick touch-ups on photos. I especially love how quickly it corrects lens distortion. Although this extension will not replace one’s full photo editing suite, it will save you more than few trips to your heavy duty photo editor.

I bought this app for a specific purpose-- to improve shots of my daughter & teammates playing hockey. Lighting in many arenas is extremely challenging, to say the least. I use good glass, a Canon 70-200 2.8L IS II on an entry-level full-frame camera Canon 6D. Typically, I have to shoot wide open at ISO 3200 to 6400 to get the necessary shutter speeds due to available light. Of the five selections in this app I usually use only two, the Optical Corrections and Noise Reduction. Probably due to the use of a good lense, I find the improvements in optical corrections to be noticeable and useful, but not dramatic. It corrects vignetting on shots wide open at f2.8 quite well, barrel distortion is minimal. On a few outdoor shots I looked at and tested it did correct chromatic aberrations. I’m seeing larger amounts of correction on other lenses I use such as Canon’s 24-105L 4.0. In arenas I custom set a white balance for each “barn” and subsequently do not use the white balance controls in the app; I find it is always better to shoot as close to perfect as possible rather than to try to correct afterwards. The white balance setup in this app strikes me as being next to useless. Use Photos or other software instead if necessary. The Smart Lighting feature I use sporadically, sometimes I like the effect, sometimes I don’t. Obviously Clear View isn’t any use for what I am doing. I experimented with a few hazy outdoor shots, but didn’t love the effect. Personal choice I guess. By far the best feature is Noise Reduction. I’ve been using the Prime button almost exclusively and appreciate the improvement. Best app at reducing thermal noise I’ve used, period. On most shots, at least one full stop improvement. This feature alone is worth purchasing this app for. I do agree with other reviewer’s that it is slow. On my six year old MBP 17, saving the changes takes about two minutes, but I like the improvement.

Crap ! does not oper Jpeg as mention in the publicity. DO NOT THIS PICE OF S**T

I love this extension! It’s made for people like me…I’m not a professional, and I can’t be bothered with learning all of the ins and outs of PS or LR. DxO Optics Pro gives me simple buttons to click (and now SLIDERS for fine-tuning) that make my photos look amazing. I mostly use it for landscape photography, and it brings out lots of detail in my shots.

It works ok even if it’s quite slow. I will consider using it when/if it starts supporting RAW formats..

Very good noise reduction, really usefull lens correction adn dehaze, simple, powerful and easy to use.

+ v.1.1 updated with subtle yet effective changes impriving overall usability; Photos & DxO in a single convenient package, all in an useful and easy to use plug-in. If you manage your photos with Photos it’s a must have plug-in to get quick yet powerful results without the need of much pricer and complex solutions. Rated according to price / results ratio.

I take the photo with Sigma 17-50mm, but the app show Tamron instead.

Website says it works with RAW files from Sony cameras, including my a5100 but when I try to open my Sony .arw (raw file format) files it tells me it is not supported and I have the most current software update. Waste of money.

If there’s a way to do batch processing, I’d love that feature. Also, the M to toggle between original and corrected versions is a good idea, but it always seems that the “original” version has more vignetting and darkening than the *actual* original.

This is a good start by DxO Labs, but this extension could be great if a few tweaks were made. - After any changes are made, the extension saves the file as a JPEG. This may be a general limitation of Photos extensions but if it was possible to save the changes on top of a RAW file, much like the default editing tools, it would be much better and less destructive. - In the current version, you cannot edit your photos default tools first, you MUST use this extension first. If you do not, the app will not be able to properly identify your camera equipment and apply optical fixes. I am not sure why this is a thing but if there is any way to correct it, please do! - PRIME noise redution is superb but the tool could be more powerful if the preview loupe offered different levels of magnification. As it stands, DxO seems to want to make this your one-stop-shop for processing your RAW files. This is admirable, but it ends up being severely limiting to have my file compressed into a JPEG and make any other meaningful edits impossible. If this extension can be made in a way so that it’s just another step in the workflow, that would be perfect. If not, then unfortunately it is too limited for me to use seriously. If you need an app to quickly fix optical problems with your setup, slap on some corrective lighting, denoise, then export to JPEG, this is perfect for you and delivers superb processed results. If you are looking for a supplementary extension to fit into your RAW processing workflow, the app is currently a dead-end solution and cannot work for you until changed.

forks fine if you don’t do any photo editing in photos.app previously otherwise it wont recognise your lens or camera. to expensive for the 4 options it offers, there should be more editing options for the price !!!

iPhone 7 and 7+ are very popular camera, and Fujifilm X-T1 (or X-T2) are well received camera as well. Still no support! At least not yet.

Watching the hype about DxO, I thought I should give it a try to process my RAW pictures quickly. Fired up and picked two RAW images from my Nikon 5000 and processed two consecutively shot images with DxO and Photos, respectively. Althought, DxO could process the overall contrast and noise reduction, these changes could be done very easily by me using a couple of sliders in the original Photos app. I am not a regular Photos user. I use Adobe Lightroom for my initial image processing and DxO turns out to be quite underwhelming. Even a free smartphone app can do what DxO does. Save your money and stick with the native processsing by Photos. DxO is a waste of money right now unless they give more control over the processing of images. For a $9.99 app, it is a joke to get nothing!