This looks really promising. I liked it better than Adobe Lightroom. Yes, LR is intended to be more than what DxO is, but that doesn’t make it better in its current beta stage. Lightroom has turned out to be slow and resource hogging. Since I am only comparing two beta versions, I can’t be conclusive in my judgements. But DxO is sweet!

Of course, DxO has something that can be called truly unique. Its geometric corrections are truly effective. Version 3.5 had a lot of quirks, including a very dull UI. Processing speeds have been a great concern, and I usually start the process of batch conversion and take a break when I am processing a lot of images at once. All that has been adddressed in this new version

Check it out here. Below is a frame I shot last evening, and processed using DxO Optics v4 beta: