The worst of all possible worlds if you will. To my mind, multi-tools are usually disappointing because they don't do anything well.
DXO VIEWPOINT FILE FORMATS SOFTWARE
I keep my vector and image processing software separated from it. I find it more economical to have a separate DAM/RAW processing engine. It looked like a real breakthrough but it was abandoned by Apple and I am delighted that I was never locked into any single approach. I can recall paying £500 for Apple's Aperture software. ACR reached a plateau that implied developmental stasis and it was no longer a given that one vendor had all of the answers. The CS Suite was a wheeze to extract more money while refusing to fix the glaring holes in the software. Illustrator exhibited anomalies for donkeys years.
I am fairly much tool agnostic and will use what I find works.Īdobe lost the plot many years earlier than now, when annual 'upgrades' never really addressed the stultifying slow Photoshop. Compositing is rarely required because film photographers had to make most of their decisions before using the camera. The colour balance and exposure are handled in DxO. I capture the images I need for my clients and I rarely need more than a bit of cropping and some pre printing sharpening. I suspect that the royalty cost would then push the software cost too high for Serif's company philosophy.ĭxO is more than adequate for my needs. Partnering with DxO to gain access to the lens correction database may make sense. I could not recommend it for any serious image editing. GIMP is a 20 year old software with 20 year old thinking.
I am, of course, biased but then I use it every day for my commercial needs and it has not fallen over or let me down. It will surprise you with just how complete and easy it is to use. If you are considering commercial software, have a look at DxO Optics Pro. I have not used it but I have seen many resulting images and in a pinch, I would use it. I suspect that Serif will find that they do not have the resources to bring such a program to the market early. High quality output files are not that often seen, despite the welter of available applications. RAW file processing is understood and DAM is also understood. Notwithstanding that information, Affinity Publisher took a long time to bring to its beta state and yet, it inexplicably still has many vital omissions. Nevertheless, the pre-press requirements of designers are very specific and well known. Serif know a lot more about layout and publishing. It is unlikely that Serif will be able to replicate that database of information without the relevant scientific testing and creating the means in the software to apply the numbers thereby derived. DxO also include their own database of lenses and all of the corrections required to reduce or remove chromatic aberrations and barrel and pincushion distortions. My RAW processor is only as good as it is because it was developed and has gone through iterations over 14 years. From my viewpoint, the OS of your computer already has the ability to file, sort, open, close and write to digital files and it can also retrieve them.
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