What DXO has done was basically replace the right click + “export to an app” with a button on the bottom of DPL. This “full integration” claimed at the release of Nikcollection v2 was almost misleading. You can also send a processed image from within Lightroom to Photoshop as a tiff file for futher processing and return that updated tiff back to Lightroom, but that type of handoff is not really integration.įrom Wikipedia: “System integration is defined in engineering as the process of bringing together the component sub-systems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a system.” Perhaps that definition has changed somewhat over the years but, before I retired, when we integrated the functionality of multiple software applications together the intended result was seamless functionality that at least gave the impression to end users that they were running a single application. Passing a converted raw file with edits applied from one application to another in a different format is not really integration. There would be no need to first convert raw files to tiffs or jpegs and export them to a separate application. For many of us, FilmPack’s integration is really a test case of what we eventually hope the Nik Collection might become when used with PhotoLab.įor any Nik applications to be fully integrated into Photolab there would have to be Nik related pallets available in Photolab with the ability to apply edits from those pallets directly to raw files.

FilmPack, which can also be run as a separate application, is also fully integrated into Photolab. For it to be integrated, it would have to work on raw files directly from within Photolab like FilmPack does.

I think we may differ on what integrated means. Viveza plus is already integrated into DXO-PL 2 with local control points.

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