DXO Optics Pro V6

[anglefire]

I should also say that I created a new output location and that worked ok - so it was a one off - or something else!! 

[anglefire]

Having used it for a couple days on and off, I've decided to keep with ACR.

A couple of reasons.

1. To get the file into photoshop, then it has to go via TIFF or DNG or Jpeg (Though I think you can go into LR directly?)
2. Whilst the resulting files are very nice, I'm not convinced that they are actually any better than produced by ACR.

However, there are some things that it does do very well.

The presets are very nice - with most images, they work without any intervention. But I found some of my studio shots I did the other week required more work than ACR to make the black background true black. I also found doing some motorsport shots, that although the recovery of highlights was very good, it did make the image then overly dull - which then needed work to get back.

I will probably play a bit more with the shots that I plan to take this afternoon - just to make sure, but I doubt that I will spend £139 on it!

Oh, one final thing - it took a couple of runs of it for me to realise that you had to run it in Admin mode to stop it asking for your email addy to register the trial.