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In Manual mode, the user is allowed to decide on the crop. In Auto Mode, ViewPoint is automatically making a suggestion of the best crop. As we are used already, it has both Auto and Manual mode. This correction has anchor points option, both horizontally and vertically, but also allows the user to input the angle of the rotation.Ĭrop is a great way of completing your distortion correction. Horizon is doing rotations of the image, usually necessary when the horizon or other relevant guidance line is bent. H/V compress the image vertically (negative values) and horizontally(positive values).Īfter applying perspective settings, View Point displays black colour in the areas lost due to the correction.

8 points – offers similar concept as Rectangle but in this case there is no need to have a rectangular subject, but 2 sets of parallels, 2 vertical and 2 horizontal, determined by 8 anchor points.Īdvanced settings are also available for fine tuning the correction: Up/Downs and left/Right sliders, toggle the image around its horizontal respectively vertical axis.

Useful for large distorted rectangular buildings

Rectangle offers 4 points, positioned in a quadrilateral shape, that after correction will be transformed in a rectangle.

Force horizontal parallel – very similar to the above, is targeting the horizontal parallels, useful especially when the shooting direction is not perpendicular to a large horizontal object.

Force vertical parallel – 4 anchor points are available across 2 vertical parallel lines in oder to correct the inherent vertical distortion due to lack of a TS lens.

Perspective is the feature that seems to be the most interesting for me. The corrections are split into 5 difference sections: Distortion, Volume Deformation, Perspective, Horizon and Crop. The menu is in the right, collapsible, to allow a larger visualization of the working area. Opening the ViewPoint2, I was positively impressed by an easy to use and clean user interface: big space in the left for the processed image or for a before&after display.

Since I am a Photoshop user, I am much more interested in the plugin version, as it integrates much easily in my workflow, so this is what I have used for this review.

View Point comes as both Photoshop plugin and standalone application and according to their website: “The indispensable companion to your wide-angle lens, DxO ViewPoint fixes perspectives and easily restores the natural shapes of the subjects located along image edges.” As an architecture photographer I was getting interested to learn more about this, so I installed the trial version and watched a quick tutorial movie. The geek in me was really curious and decided to give ViewPoint 2 a try. I knew about DXO before from their well known DXOMarks, cameras and lenses reviews, benchmarking’s and ratings, but I was not aware that they are also producing photographic software’s.

To try DxO ViewPoint 3 for free one month visit the DXO website.Couple of days ago I have received a newsletter from the friends from Topaz Labs, featuring an offer for ViewPoint 2, software made by their partners DXO. The suggested retail price is £59/$79/€79 but the software is available a discounted rate of £39/$49/€49 until 4th December.Īnyone who purchased a DxO ViewPoint license on or after Septemis entitled to a free upgrade to version 3. DXO ViewPoint 3: Pricing & AvailabilityĭxO ViewPoint 3 for Mac and Windows is available immediately from. ViewPoint 3 can also be used as a plug-in for Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements to correct complex perspective problems and restore the natural shape to subjects towards the edges of images captured with wide-angle lenses.Īlong with the addition of automatic corrections, ViewPoint 3 enables manual perspective and distortion correction and has a new cleaner interface. There’s also a new tool that is designed to replicate the effect of using a tilt shift lens to produce a miniaturisation effect.Īvailable for Mac and Windows computers, DXO ViewPoint 3 works as a standalone package or as a plug-in for DXO Optics Pro, which uses DXO’s Optic Modules to correct optical errors. DXO, known for its complex image analysis and optical imperfection correction, has announced an update to its perspective and keystone correction software, ViewPoint.ĭXO ViewPoint 3 uses DXO’s optical and image science experience to correct distorted perspective and wonky horizons automatically with just one click.