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DxO PhotoLab 10: Faster RAW Editing Without Giving Up Creative Control

A desert landscape with sand dunes and palm trees is displayed in photo editing software, showing a color grading panel with a color wheel and adjustment sliders.

Photographers often know how they want an image to look before they begin editing, but reaching that result can require both changes across the entire scene and adjustments limited to specific areas. Selecting one person in a group, isolating the midground without affecting the foreground or background, or removing dozens of dust spots can take longer than the exposure or color adjustment that follows. DxO PhotoLab 10 introduces new tools that make this process faster while giving photographers …

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This New Open-Source Camera Has Swappable Sensors and Lens Mounts

German electronics company CircuitValley has launched the CHC5 on Kickstarter, which it describes as "the world's first commercially available modular camera system for advanced imaging." The CHC5's claim to fame is that the user can freely swap out the image sensor, rotating through a wide range of sensor sizes and formats.

A split-screen comparison shows a dark, unedited photo of a cathedral dome next to a bright, color-corrected version, with a software color grading panel visible on the right.

DxO PhotoLab 10 Hands-On: Finding Depth All Over the Place

More and more, DxO’s PhotoLab stands out as a worthy alternative because you don’t have to pay for it every month. You pay once and can hang on to that version for as long as you like, though upgrades to new versions come with a fee -- usually about half the price. Version 10 isn’t as big a step forward as past ones but it patches some holes left behind by the others.