DxO PhotoLab has received its 12th TIPA award, including seven consecutive wins as Best Imaging Software Professional. Together with six EISA awards, this recognition from leading industry experts underscores DxO’s dedication to delivering exceptional image quality and advanced photographic tools.

DxO introduced AI Masks to push local adjustments beyond the limits of conventional photo editing software. Powered by advanced scene analysis and an intelligent layering system, DxO PhotoLab enables multiple masks to interact seamlessly for fast, highly sophisticated adjustments. The result is exceptional precision, natural-looking edits, and a level of creative control unmatched by competing solutions.

Demosaicing and denoising are the building blocks of any image processing pipeline, and their quality determines the final result's excellence. That's why we keep investing heavily in fundamental research on these topics. With the introduction of DeepPrime XD2 (for "Enhanced Detail"), PureRAW 4 set a new industry standard, becoming the essential first step in any ambitious RAW workflow.

When we bought the Nik Collection from Google in 2017, we faced a major challenge: the talented Nik software development team was gone and we had just acquired millions of lines of source code from as far back as the 1990s, without any documentation. It took us six years to re-code it from the ground up and now the Nik Collection is ready for another 30 years of innovation.

Over the years, our lab produced millions of RAW images as part of its analyses of cameras and lenses; we used this absolutely unique data set to train an AI model specialized in images. Introduced in DxO PhotoLab 4, the results were mind-blowing: DeepPRIME delivered a gain of more than two stops of ISO!

When Google revealed that it would no longer support and develop the beloved Nik Collection suite of plugins that it had acquired a few years previously, the world of photography was distraught. Fortunately, this was not the end: in October, Google announced that it had sold the Nik Collection to DxO, giving us the opportunity to breathe new life into the suite.

With DxO ViewPoint, we introduced the world’s first algorithm for correcting volume deformation. Also called “anamorphosis,” this phenomenon occurs when objects placed near the edge of a wide-angle lens become distorted. Photographers could finally stop worrying about stretching their subjects!

DxO Labs is a child of the new era of digital photography and despite this, we know that we owe our existence to film photography. As passionate photographers, we felt the need to give something back. For this reason, we created DxO FilmPack, an homage to analog image-making, to ensure that the spirit of film photography will never fade.

The early 2000s saw the emergence of the smartphone and as experts in image quality, we could not resist helping mobile manufacturers solve their image quality issues. We filed more than 100 patents, ported our technologies on silicon chips, and ended up powering more than 400 million smartphones worldwide.

In December 2003, we launched DxO Analyzer, a revolutionary tool for professionals to assess the image quality of digital cameras. It was an immediate success, and DxO Analyzer was soon adopted by the entire photo industry, including specialized press and independent laboratories. The technology later led us to create DxOMark.

The story of DxO Labs began in Paris in January 1995 with the founding of Vision-IQ. This technology start-up aimed to 'teach computers to see' in order to assist lifeguards in preventing drowning accidents in large swimming pools. The computer-aided surveillance system “Poseidon” is now used in over 300 pools worldwide and is credited with saving more than 50 lives.