If I have one recommendation it is that while the software is a free, fully working copy, you will benefit from giving it a try. The one or two hero shots that I end up keeping or I submit as the finished work if a client is involved. Once the trial is completed (and it is a full working copy with no limitations for 30 days) I will purchase the software but my plan is to use it only for those small percentage of images that one ends up with after a particular shoot. What is more all my export presets are to subfolders and now I have to remember that my jpegs for the DxO processed files go into a sub-folder of the sub-folder! This may not impact you but it does me and there appears to be no way to have the processed images just be in the original folder. I thin have to right click and select 'show image in folder' to have it displayed in context with the original folder film strip. After processing the image appears in a new film strip in Lightroom. This may not affect you but it interferes with my workflow. The software insists on keeping all processed images in a sub-folder off the folder containing the images. The main disadvantage of PR2 so far is in terms of work flow.
Also impressive is the fact that so far DxO has recognised my Fuji lenses, including combinations like the 100-400+TC2.0x and has specific profiles for them (I haven't check all of them but I would be surprised if the list was not comprehensive). I recently acquired the WA adapter for my Ricoh GRIII which introduces fringing in objects against a light background (e.g. In my tests it is rarely necessary to apply further noise reduction or sharpening, even on severely noisy or slightly soft images. The whole purpose of PR2 is to process the RAW file at the same time correcting lens distortions, fringing, noise reduction and sharpening.
With PR2 it is RAW -> LR -> Export to PR2 -> TopazAI products if required -> Export to JPEG.
My workflow is normally RAW -> LR -> TopazAI products if required -> Export to JPEG. I am not related to the company, have no axe to grind and am not shilling. I've been trialling DxO PureRAW 2 (PR2) and in certain cases I have found it to be an advantage over my normal workflow.
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