DxO expects it to be compatible with Windows 8 when released, as well. ViewPoint runs on Mac OS X version 10.5 through 10.8 and Windows XP/Vista/7. The software is easy to use and, based on technology that's been in the company's flagship product Optics Pro, very reliable. Better to blame the camera than you.ĭxO's ViewPoint makes it simple to fix these things and keep them looking natural. Even if you happen to get it right, it looks disturbingly unnatural. It's notoriously difficult to successfully correct them.
If you dare try to correct these geometric distortions in your image editor with a Perspective control, say, you probably didn't dare twice. If it's a group of people, the guys on the end will have their heads reshaped in grotesque ways. That's the distortion of things at the left and right edges of the image. If you do that to people by shooting from a low angle, their heads are ridiculously tiny compared to their hands, say.īut the one no one laughs about is becoming increasingly common as zoom lenses get wider and wider. Unfortunately all the verticals that are obviously parallel in real life, converge almost comically in your photo as they rise. You're standing in front of a famous building, you whip out your camera and, point up to include the roof line, you shoot. The most common distortion is one you may not even be bothered by: converging verticals. The full image data is available to you after correction.That pretty much sums up our smile as we sat through a briefing on DxO Labs' new tool to fix some distortions we've all had to live with for a while. If you want to tweak your aspect ratio to make the best of the distortion-corrected image, or you want to leave in some areas not covered by the image (perhaps to fix with Photoshop's content-aware fill or similar), you can. (And recognizing this, there's now a "Natural" preset that attempts to give you the best compromise automatically.Īnd there's another new feather in Viewpoint's cap: The distortion-correcting tool now better lets you control cropping of your images.
You can also control the strength of the correction for a more natural look, since a perfectly-true square isn't always the most realistic scenario. The result is an image with level horizon, parallel verticals, and parallel horizontals. Eight-point perspective correction in Viewpoint 2.Īs you can see in the screenshot above, this makes it easier to indicate your correction in subjects where there's not an easily-placed rectangle that covers most of the frame - for example, when you have multiple buildings whose faces point in different directions.
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