![]() ![]() While Upright works acceptably for inanimate objects, human features are a different story. I'd had some success with that earlier, but now I pit it side-by-side against the single-missioned ViewPoint. I compared ViewPoint's tools with Lightroom's geometry tools. Correcting Volume Distortion and Perspective One annoyance with the interface is that text and controls look small on certain monitors, and there’s no setting to adjust them. A hand zoom slider and optional grid overlay, as well as side-by-side before/after views complete the set of useful interface tools. A full-screen button at top right removes distracting OS borders. Helpful diagrammatic buttons visually portray what each tool does. The options differ a little depending on whether you’re using the standalone ViewPoint, the plug-in version, or the PhotoLab panel. The large central work area is flanked to the right with a panel offering the program's corrections: Distortion (for lens-profile-based optic corrections), Volume deformation, Perspective, ReShape, Horizon, Crop, and Miniature effects. Even though it doesn't work with raw camera files, you still need to download profile data from DxO's database if you want to use the program's lens corrections. Nor does it work with HEIC/HEIF files, JPG's replacement format used in many smartphones to save space while maintaining quality. Note that ViewPoint doesn’t do raw camera file conversion it only works with JPG or TIFF file formats. You can drag-and-drop a photo or open it the old-fashioned way with a File dialog to start working on a photo. A left panel shows your storage folder devices in tree view, and a button switches this to a view of just recent photos you’ve worked on. ViewPoint's standalone application window has the simple, pleasing dark gray user interface found in up-to-date photo applications. ViewPoint also can correct more straightforward perspective problems, for example, if you're pointing the camera up at a building and want the shot to look straight on. The correct form of the originally 3D subject is changed and not usually in a pleasing way! ViewPoint corrects it. It describes what happens to, for example, a head at the side of a wide-angle shot that looks stretched. The major issue that ViewPoint solves is volume anamorphosis, though the company has moved to the slightly less head-scratching term volume deformation. We've reviewed the company’s impressive DxO PhotoLab, which can pull photo information from a raw camera file and automatically tune an image based on your lens and sensor characteristics, as well as PureRAW, which does an amazing job at image noise correction. One installation process installs it both as plug-ins and the standalone application. When you install ViewPoint with custom settings, you can choose to install plug-ins for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Lightroom Classic, as well as for DxO PhotoLab. At nearly a gigabyte, it's not the smallest program to download and install. I tried the standalone version of DxO ViewPoint on a 3.4GHz Core i7 Windows 10 test machine with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics processor. ![]() Microsoft Windows 10 version 20H2 or higher (64-bit, and still supported by Microsoft)Īnd are the requirement for macOS computers:.Here are the requirements for installing ViewPoint on Windows: You can test it with an unlimited 30-day free trial, after which you'll need to purchase a license code. There's no subscription option, so once you purchase, it's yours. ![]() ViewPoint is available for a one-time purchase of $99. ![]()
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