#DOES DXO PHOTOLAB READING IN XMP SOFTWARE#

I'd love to hear any tips or tricks from others that have come to PM+ with similar needs or experiences.

My ultimate aim would be to get my images well organised both for my own benefit and also so that when the inevitable day arrives when I'm not around that my photo hard drives are organised in a way with clearly defined folders of 'finished' JPGs so that my partner or children can take what they want. The main challenge is having multiple copies of images because of the need for scaling for website use.

#DOES DXO PHOTOLAB READING IN XMP SOFTWARE#

I don't want to have photographs that depend on having software to see them correctly and therefore generating 'finished' JPGs seems to be the safe way to go (even if DXO or other software is still keeping the 'recipe' in a sidecar file alongside the raw file).Īs I also run websites for a few small local groups, I also tend to acquire images that are used on those websites that need to be managed and organised, typically in their own folders, and possibly in their own catalogues. While I used Lightroom for a while (because it was necessary for a Open University photography course I was doing), I ceased to use it after Lightroom 6 and the move to subscriptions.

When I first used it, it was primarily to use On1 Layers as an inexpensive way to get into layers but these days all of that functionality is in Affinity Photo and PM+ would seem much better for the DAM aspects. I have used On1 a lot in the past (and am still in their subscription program) but use it less and less as I don't much care for the raw processing and while it used to be a fast browser, it seems a lot slower these days (even on faster hardware). My main tools these days are DXO PhotoLab for processing raw images together with Affinity Photo for doing more sophisticated work. A facility to find duplicates / similar images would be a great boon, but one still needs to work out which is the original, the processed ones and those that should be deleted and then move those that are in the wrong places to the correct directories. Already, I've found images I didn't know I had lurking in my main photo directories that I thought were well organised, so that is a good sign. So far by using a combination of EXIF data where it exists, and other clues I'm slowly able to find duplicates and start to rationalise but it will be a long haul.

I had high hopes of PS solving my DAM problems but the database seemed to get in a bit of a mess and the import process had to be done in small pieces and was taking for ever - I've already got more images in PM+ than I ever got managed sensibly in PhotoSupreme.īecause of my history I find that while most of my images are well organised in folders based on dates (and this was the form that was referenced for Aperture / Lightroom etc) because images have been transferred to online services and then re-downloaded or exported to albums, there are also an additional mass of duplicates in various places - some with corrupted EXIF/IPTC information which makes them difficult to identify - which I was hoping to get sorted with a good DAM. Over the years my digital images have been in (and out of) iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Capture One, and PhotoSupreme. I'm an amateur photographer with digital photographs from the last twenty years or so and scans from many years prior to that. Hi, I'm a new user of PM+, still in my trial, although I think it is highly likely that I will pull the trigger and purchase the software (I've purchased plenty other software in my time and PM seems to cross the bar of value for money for me at the moment).

Does dxo photolab reading in xmp