​Note: the tool I present you here should not be necessary with PureRaw 2 and subsequent releases.

In this article, I present to you a tool I discovered that helped me use Dxo PureRaw in my photography editing workflow.

Dxo PureRaw is a one-click raw file processing application, which mainly seems to focus on noise removal and sharpening. I was quite impressed by the noise management function: on a Canon 7D2 raw file taken at high ISO, noise magically disappeared. Even better, when subsequently raising shadows in Lightroom, no extra noise seemed to appear! I wasn’t completely convinced by the sharpening, I found my subjects to look a bit weird when seen up-close, but overall I found PureRaw to be beneficial to my photography, at least in some scenarios.
I won’t dwell more on the software’s functionalities, there are plenty of resources on the internet for that. What I want to show you is how to include PureRaw in your workflow if you like to do image culling and selection in Lightroom.

The problem occurs after you have selected the images you want to process. If you use a Mac, it’s fine, you can drag and drop the thumbnails from Lightroom to PureRaw, process them there, and then export back to Lightroom. However, that doesn’t work on Windows.

Enters the LRPureRAW plugin.

​Sometimes, there's disturbance in the atmosphere between you and your subject: air is moving and, as a result, your images are not tack sharp... and there is nothing you can do about it!