![]() ![]() Good as ViewPoint 4 is (and it really is very good), the workflow options are a real tangle.DxO ViewPoint 4 is a program devoted specifically to lens and perspective corrections. The other factor is that Lightroom will apply perspective corrections within its own non-destructive workflow, but if you send an image to the ViewPoint 4 plug-in, that creates a permanent JPEG or TIFF image with adjustments you can’t revisit later.įinally, let’s not forget the Perspective Efex plug-in, part of the Nik Collection – this does much of what ViewPoint 4 does. And if you use ViewPoint 4 as a plug-in, your host application will almost certainly apply lens corrections itself before it even sends the image to ViewPoint. Our Olympus E-P7 bakes lens corrections into its raw files and JPEGs, as do most mirrorless cameras, but ViewPoint 4 doesn’t seem to know this and will apply its own correction profiles on top if you ask it to (if you don’t know any better, say). You may also end up applying corrections twice. It doesn't like images that have been edited in any way, it doesn't seem to spot that many mirrorless cameras embed corrections already, and if you're using it with a host program, then corrections will quite probably have been applied already. The Distortion panel seems borderline redundant. If you launch it as a standalone program, you’ll also get a directory tree of all your folders in the left sidebar. ![]() Miniature effect: this seems like a bit of a departure for an optical correction tool, but it mimics the shallow depth of field effect of a tilt lens.Īnd that’s pretty much all there is to ViewPoint 4. ![]() Horizon: an automatic or manual tool for levelling up horizons.Ĭrop: you can apply different aspect ratios and rotate images to straighten them here, too. Reshape: a new feature in ViewPoint 4 which is like a local warping tool for correcting the perspective rendering of smaller objects within a scene. Perspective: automatic correction for vertical convergence, horizontal convergence or both, plus manual tools which include powerful 8-point adjustment. Volume Deformation: a tool you won’t find anywhere else for correcting the artificial elongation of objects near the edges of the frame in photos shot with ultra-wide lenses. Distortion: for applying automatic lens correction profiles, which can be downloaded as necessary. ![]()
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