Print like a Pro - Soft Proof your photos with DxO PhotoLab and make perfect prints - Episode 13

[@michaelwplant]

This is a great walk though of the process of printing with DxO PhotoLab7 well done Chris

[@chriswrightphotographs]

Thanks, Michael - as somebody who has struggled with printing for years, soft proofing was a revelation!

[@Mr_S-gros]

Thanks a lot. Your video tutorials are great and extremely useful 🙂

[@chriswrightphotographs]

Thank you, that's great to hear!

[@stefanmarch]

Thanks for demystifying this. Just one question, is it necessary to create a tif? Could i just work on a virtual copy of the raw.

[@chriswrightphotographs]

Yes, you can work on a virtual copy of the RAW, but my experience was that the before/after button in PhotoLab toggles between the unprocessed image and the proof. You need to compare the proof with the process image in order to know what values you need to tweak. I've posted on the DxO forum to see if there's a way to change the default setting.

[@stefanmarch]

@@chriswrightphotographs If you click the dropdown alongside Compare you can select to compare against the processed master copy.

[@chriswrightphotographs]

@@stefanmarch My bad! Yes, the dropdown is next to the Split Screen Compare button and whichever setting you choose is also applied to the Quick Compare button. Thanks for pointing this out.