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.

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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