Which is fine if you are a professional or regular user, but it is a lot of money if you just edit some vacation photos or family snaps. That includes the newest Lightroom and Photoshop. In Europe the cheapest subscription is the ‘Photography’ one that will cost you about 12 euro’s a month. Nowadays Adobe doesn’t give you that option anymore, it is just the subscription version. You’d pay 139 euro’s and kept using it for as long as you were comfortable with it or as long as your cameras were supported. Back in the days you could buy and own Lightroom. But what if you aren’t interested in that. Pay a fee each month and get the best and newest product or service available. These days just about everything is available in a subscription, cars, washing machines, your iPhone and also your software. Interested in PhotoLab 6? Click on this link to visit the office DXO webshop and find the best deal for you!ĭXO PhotoLab 6 is available without a subscription. The software is installed on my M1 Mac mini with 16GB of RAM running MacOS 13 Ventura. The images I’ve edited are taken with my Sony A7RIII. I’ve tested PhotoLab 6 for some weeks and edited a wide range of images and compared it to Lightroom Classic v12.0.1. And if PhotoLab 6 is good enough to make me switch. In this review I’ll tell you about my experience with PhotoLab 6. But in the end I kept going back to Lightroom. Free ones or paid ones like Luminar 2018 by the company Skylum (find my Dutch review here). But being a little curious by nature I have tried several alternatives.

Why? Well, when I started to do more serious editing that was the go-to software everyone was using to edit their images. To give you a little background information: I have been using Lightroom (and Photoshop) for 10+ years.

This is my review of the all new DxO PhotoLab 6.

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