Main DxO ViewPoint 5 [Windows]

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DxO ViewPoint 4 has received more than just a polishing round with version 4. The new version adds important new features and a more efficient interface. It integrates seamlessly with PhotoLab, and as a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Lightroom Classic. Its standalone app was the one I tested.

One new feature turns this upgrade into a must-have, but first the lesser goods. There’s a new mirroring tool that lets you flip images around their horizontal or vertical axis, and there are guides. A navigation sidebar also allows you to go quickly to an image that you were working on before.

The feature that really makes this an upgrade instead of an update, however, is the new Reshape tool. For instance, you can realign crooked architecture with the ReShape tool, which has a customizable grid and extensive control points that allow for precise manipulation. Complex distortions can be corrected, because you can adjust the grid from only a few control points to a great many and, while the press demo used a photo of a lighthouse that was oddly distorted, I instantly thought of a totally different scenario.

See next post for version 5.5.0.1