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Lightroom is the only one to offer cloud sync and editing.It means paying extra for renting the online storage space needed, but there it is. Lightroom Classic can sync images up to a point, whereas Lightroom CC is built for cloud-based photography. Lightroom is the only one of the three programs here that offers cloud synchronisation and a mobile editing/capture app that works seamlessly with your desktop software. Capture One offers the greatest choice of workflows.It is not a digital asset management system in the way that Lightroom and Capture One are, but should be thought of as a powerful non-destructive processor and editor with browsing tools. PhotoLab does have basic search and album tools, but its main organisational system is folders. Lightroom and Capture One are all-in-one cataloging and non-destructive editing tools, PhotoLab is not. This is not the main point of this comparison, but let’s get this out of the way first. I will use Lightroom Classic for this comparison, but Lightroom CC (or Adobe Camera Raw) will give exactly the same results. There are two versions of Lightroom, but they both use the same Camera Raw processing engine with the same editing tools. If you have a Fujifilm camera, you probably have to cross PhotoLab off the list straight away – though it does support some non-X-Trans models, like the GFX 100 and X-T100.

DxO’s RAW processing engine is not compatible with Fujifilm’s X-Trans sensor layout. There are no Fujifilm cameras in this comparison.

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What this comparison is mostly about is just how good each one of them is at processing RAW images, and to test this out I’m going to use compare the RAW image processing of files from a series different cameras, including a Canon EOS 6D Mark II, Sony A6000, Nikon Z 6 and Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II.

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Download trial versions of DxO PhotoLab, Lightroom and Capture One here.

Read more: Lightroom vs Capture One: which is best all round – for organising, workflow, processing and editing?.

I’ll get these out of the way pretty quickly.

I was more concerned about the editing features and functions in Lightroom than the database/cataloging features.Many of the differences between DxO PhotoLab, Lightroom and Capture One are self-evident and to do with the organisational and cataloguing tools, cloud sync capabilities (or lack of them) and so on. I usually give my folders a meaningful name along with the date and so far I have not had any problem finding a specific image that I recall having shot last year or whatever.

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With PhotoLab 3 and 4 I have been free to set up folders the way I want, and I definitely prefer that! I am also bad about keywording and tend to skip that so yeah, this would add something to my workload when editing if it is deemed more necessary to do in Lightroom. Thank you both for bringing up things about which I had been concerned and am definitely going to be looking at closely before or if I press the 'trial' button! The catalog thing is definitely a concern, as I prefer to keep my images under my control, not under the control of some software.

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