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DxO announces ViewPoint 5 upgraded with support for local adjustments and more
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DxO has announced ViewPoint 5, a new version of its geometry correction and editing software that's meant to help correct optical distortion or adjust perspective for artistic effect. Most of the changes revolve around the ReShape Fusion control introduced in the previous version, giving users more options when adjusting perspective or geometry in their images.
In ViewPoint 4, the ReShape Fusion tool let you manually drag points in a mesh to adjust a photo's geometry. The new version adds a free transform mode, which lets you move, rotate, or scale certain parts of your image. It also now has a 'propagation' slider, which is somewhat analogous to the feather tool in other editing software; it lets you control how much your edits in one area of the image affect other parts of the image.
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The propagation tool lets you choose how much you want your edits to affect other parts of your image. Image: DXO |
DxO has also added a "Sticky Borders" checkbox, which 'maintains the original crop of the image' by warping your image to fill in spaces left by your other adjustments.
The horizon and perspective editing tools have also been updated to let you make adjustments locally, so they only apply to specific subjects in the image rather than the entire thing. For example, if you had an image with several skyscrapers in it and the ones at the edge of the frame were starting to lean away from the center, you could correct that distortion without affecting the other towers in the image.
That local correction is also now available for volume deformation correction, which helps fix the stretched edges of images taken with ultra-wide lenses. That means that if one edge of your image is stretched more than the other, you no longer have to apply the correction to fix it to the entire image.
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Volume deformation adjustments can now be made to only certain parts of the image and can be adjusted using the same propagation slider control available on other tools. Image: DXO |
Like DxO's other software, ViewPoint 5 is being sold as a perpetual license instead of using a subscription model. Buying it standalone will cost $109, and upgrading from version 3 or 4 will cost $69. It's also available as a bundle with the company's recently announced PhotoLab 8 Raw editing software for $269. Like with the previous version, owning both will give you access to some of ViewPoint's features within PhotoLab.
Press Release:
DxO ViewPoint 5, the unique photo software for controlling geometry, shape, and perspective, adds spectacular new tools
The innovative ReShape Fusion tool lets users warp imperfections, correct perspective, and resolve issues caused by wide-angle lenses, and more.
Paris, France: DxO Labs, the pioneering force in photo editing software for over 20 years, today announces DxO ViewPoint 5, the latest version of its unique editing software. DxO ViewPoint allows photographers to overcome imperfect geometry, fix problem perspectives, and perfect vital image details. This major update enhances the peerless ReShape tool, adding powerful local warping of perspective, scale, and horizons, while adding more ways to use DxO ViewPoint’s exclusive volume deformation corrections to combat the stretching caused by wide-angle lenses.
“If you need to adjust perspective or geometry — whether that’s across the whole image or specific areas — there’s nothing else on the market like DxO ViewPoint 5,” explains Product Manager Fabrizio Dei Tos. “For version 5, the increased level of control gives you beautifully simple solutions to otherwise complex and fiddly problems.”
ReShape Fusion: A whole new level of control
DxO ViewPoint’s exclusive ReShape tool lets photographers realign and reposition small but vital details in their photos.
Introduced in version 4, the ReShape tool allowed photographers to realign and reposition small but vital details in their photos. In version 5, this is upgraded to ReShape Fusion, giving users powerful ways to balance and harmonize images. Previously, users were limited to manually dragging points in the tool’s mesh, but DxO ViewPoint 5 introduces Move, Rotate, and Scale options to perform far more complex edits. Alongside this is the innovative Propagation slider which steadily migrates those effects to surrounding points, allowing for more natural and photographic changes than ever before. Furthermore, the new Sticky Borders checkbox maintains the original crop of the image.
ReShape Fusion: Local horizon and perspective editing
The new ReShape Fusion tool adds more functionality, with new modes for Horizon and Perspective control. These take DxO ViewPoint’s regular Horizon and Perspective tools and combine them with the power of local adjustments. Photographers simply target the specific part of the image that needs to be realigned, make the adjustment, and then refine the changes with the Propagation slider to blend the effect with the rest of the photo. Once again, the Sticky Borders option locks the edges of the frame, so no blank pixels are created after warping.
ReShape Fusion: Correct volume deformation locally
DxO Viewpoint is the only software that offers a true solution to volume deformation — the stretching that occurs at the edges of photos taken with wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle lenses. Up until now, this distortion could only be corrected globally, but thanks to the power of the ReShape Fusion tool, photographers can now apply it to carefully controlled areas of the image to fix and refine all manner of problems. Again, the Propagation slider and Sticky Borders are on hand to fine-tune editing as required.
DxO ViewPoint 5: Vital tools for any workflow
When activated within DxO PhotoLab 8, its features bring a new level of control to your RAW workflow, granting the power to warp, correct, and edit geometry with full quality. Alternatively, it can be used standalone or alongside other photo editing software to bring balance to all manner of subjects.
Price and availability
DxO ViewPoint 5 (Windows and macOS) is now available for download on the DxO website (https://shop.dxo.com/) at the following prices:
- DxO ViewPoint 5, new license $109, €109, £99
- DxO ViewPoint 5, upgrade from v3 or v4 $69, €69, £59
A free, 30-day trial is available.
DxO ViewPoint 5 is available as a bundle with DxO PhotoLab 8, the advanced, end-to-end workflow that offers RAW photo editing at its finest:
- DxO ViewPoint 5 and DxO PhotoLab 8 $269, €269, £249
For even greater savings, DxO FilmPack7, the software that brings back the timeless magic of film, can also be added:
- DxO ViewPoint 5, DxO PhotoLab 8, DxO FilmPack 7 $349, €349, £329
About DxO ViewPoint
DxO ViewPoint 5 is software that allows photographers to achieve the perfect composition without having to re-create an image. It can warp parts of an image into the ideal position, and in one click it restores the natural shape of subjects located at the edge of an image that have been stretched by a wide-angle lens. In addition, it automatically resolves distorted perspectives and defects introduced by lenses and the position of the photographer. Alongside an array of perspective tools, it features DxO’s renowned Optics Modules which correct lens flaws such as distortion and chromatic aberrations. It also has a Miniature Effect tool that produces a super-shallow depth of field featuring smooth bokeh, similar to that produced by a tilt-shift lens.
DxO ViewPoint is designed for Mac and Windows computers as an independent application, as a palette within DxO PhotoLab, and as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Photoshop Elements.
