I ' ll just let that link stay blue . <| sep |> Hobbes ' from Calvin and Hobbes namesake as well ! <| sep |> Bit unrelated , but is that german commentary ? Lively stuff . <| sep |> Brazilians rejoice ! <| sep |> If Providence could somehow get paid for project proposals that never get followed through on , we ' d be in the fuckin money . It seems like I ' ve heard so many proposals while I ' ve been here and so few have ever gone through . Can . Can we make money off of that ? <| sep |> Never really used Lightroom so I can ' t compare , but DxO is said to have the best corrections especially noise reduction of any of the raw processors . The caveat is that it doesn ' t have the breadth of capabilities that Lightroom has . You could do all your processing in DxO , but if you want the most control , you need to take the file into Photoshop or , hell , Lightroom to add the finishing touches . My workflow is to let DxO do its corrections , and play with the exposure compensation tools like Smart Lighting to get a fairly malleable file . I also apply a Color Rendering to get a certain kind of tonality and color character . Then I take it into Photoshop to adjust curves , color balance , and dodgingburning as final touches . It works very well for me , but YMMV .