DXO Photolab 9: Intelligent masks and improved iPhone workflow

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The French software manufacturer DXO has equipped its RAW developer Photolab 9 with intelligent object recognition. Similar to Lightroom, photolab masks about artificial intelligence now also generates.

Three methods for AI object selection

The DXO AI runs locally on the user’s computer, whereby the process can be controlled differently. Photolab 9 offers three options for AI masking: You can use the mouse to drive through areas of the photos and click on the motifs, open a frame to have the content analyzed, or choose motif-related object types such as heaven, people, faces and hair.

Combine and transfer masks

Object types such as hair should be copied as instructions and can be saved as context -related preset. In this way, picture series should be processed faster than before.

According to the manufacturer, AI masks can be combined with other masking tools such as control points, control lines, course filters and the brush tool. For example, you can mask an object via AI and the background with a course filter that softens softly downwards. The masks remain separately. In this way, users can change them in a later work step.

Rename iPhone photography and stacked stacks

In addition to Heif photos, Photolab also supports Apple’s Proraw format. A new renaming tool provides building blocks for metadata fields. With them, pictures can be renewed in an intuitive way, for example, with recording date, camera name and other data.

Row reduction with Deeprime XD3 for Fujifilm cameras

DXO has been integrating the AI-supported noise reduction into its programs since 2020. Its latest version Deepprime XD3 (“Extra Detail”) is now available for Fujifilm cameras.

The camera manufacturer Fujifilm relies on the usual Bayer pattern for the arrangement of the red, green and blue pixels, but on the so-called X-Trans arrangement. There is relevant for noise reduction, since DXO combines it with the demosaicing, in which independent color pixels are combined with RGB pixels.

Deepprime XD3 X-Trans leaves photolab 9 beta phase and now also supports the fifth generation of Fujifilm cameras. The third deepprime generation should then also be available for sensors with a Bayer pattern.

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