

What's more, ViewPoint let me adjust the strength of the correction, rather than just offering on and off.

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Lightroom's Vertical choice did a better job than its Auto or Full choice, which drastically distorted the face, but for both of those the face was still cut off. I managed to get the face looking a lot more naturally proportioned, and the subject still fit it in the frame. Using ViewPoint's Anamorphic tool, you choose one of two buttons-one for photos simply stretched side-to-side, and another for those stretched in all the corners. Correcting with Lightroom's Auto option, a face in the corner of a wide shot was cut out of the picture, and the subject's honker actually grew unnaturally longer. While Upright works acceptably for inanimate objects, human features are a different story. I'd had fairly good success with that earlier, but now I pit it side-by-side against the single-missioned ViewPoint. I compared ViewPoint's Anamorphosis correction tools with Lightroom's Upright correction, which also attempts to fix geometry problems in photos. 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 clear full-screen button at top right removes distracting OS borders. Helpful diagrammatic buttons visually portray what each tool does. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Adobe Lightroom Classic Review The correct form of the originally 3D subject is changed, and not usually in a pleasing way! 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 $79 ViewPoint (a try-before-you buy download is available) works as a standalone application, a Photoshop plugin, or a Lightroom plugin.ĭxO refers to the major issue ViewPoint tries to solve as "volume anamorphosis," which describes what happens to, for example, a head at the side of a wide-angle shot that looks stretched. We've already reviewed the impressive DxO Optics, which can pull photo information from a raw camera file and tune an image based on your lens and sensor characteristics with impressive results.
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The company creates testing software used by the major digital camera manufacturers themselves. Paris-based DxO has serious cred in the digital photography realm, and it's well-positioned to tackle this problem. Expensive for a single-purpose product.ĭxO ViewPoint ( at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) takes as its mission one of the more intractable problems in photography-the distortion that results from using a wide angle lens and not shooting directly at your subject.
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