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There is a twist, though – rather literally. You can change the blur amount, the width of the sharp area and the sharpness fall-off, just as you’d expect.

This produces the faux tilt-shift blur you see in so many other programs, with a horizontal in-focus zone and progressively defocused top and bottom areas. Last but by no means least is the new Miniature effect panel.

It will automatically crop off wedge-shaped edges while preserving the photo’s original aspect ratio, so now’s your chance to change the area that’s been retained or its proportions.

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The Crop panel shows you the full image area after ViewPoint has made its corrections.

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This does what you’d expect, with a new automatic horizontal adjustment (if there is a suitable horizon line for the software to work from) with manual horizontal and vertical adjustments. ViewPoint’s perspective corrections are easy to apply and effective – more so than Lightroom’s, probably – and while Capture One is very good for manual corrections, it can’t yet do them automatically. What’s good is that as you drag the manual correction nodes, ViewPoint displays a magnifying loupe over the cursor for more accurate positioning – and what’s even better is that if you hold down the shift key, the cursor movement becomes much more precise. It does show, though, that you need a high-resolution image as a starting point, because the stronger the correction, the heavier the potential degradation. The pixellation on the right side of the building is because the original image (an official DxO sample image) was not at the camera’s full resolution. It would be better if it simply told you up front when cameras/lenses weren’t supported instead of sending you off on some EXIF/file hunting wild goose chase.

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Worse, you will get this message with any Fujifilm image, and that’s because DxO doesn’t support Fujifilm cameras and lenses in DxO Optics Pro (due the unique pixel layout of the X-Trans sensor), and presumably this carries through into ViewPoint. That seems quite odd, and it’s even odder that you have to manually locate the image using a Finder/Explorer window – you would have thought that the software would have had the brains to look in the same folder as the original. From time to time, ViewPoint may prompt you to locate the original image if you’re running it as a plug-in, presumably because the image version sent to ViewPoint doesn’t contain the necessary EXIF data.

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If it doesn’t have it, it will prompt you to download it from the DxO website – it’s a quick and simple process. ViewPoint will identify the camera and lens combination from the image’s embedded EXIF (shooting) data and automatically apply the matching lens correction profile. Starting from the top, the first panel is for fixing Distortion. NB: You can click on any of these screenshots to see a larger version. On its own, though, it will only open JPEG and TIFF files, not raw files. If you run it as a standalone program DxO ViewPoint 3 does include a basic file browser. Whether you’re launching it as a standalone app or as a plug-in, it opens with your selected image in the main window and a vertical tools panel on the right hand side. It sounds a complex job, but ViewPoint 3 makes perspective corrections pretty easy. You know where you have a person or an object near the edge of the frame that’s distorted into too wide a shape? It fixes that, which is a pretty useful thing to be able to do with group shots, for example, or off-centre composition. ViewPoint already does something else that the others don’t – volumetric distortion correction. These include new, automatic perspective corrections (Lightroom already has these, so there’s an element of catch-up here), automatic horizon straightening and a new creative blur (bokeh) tool for creating tilt-shift effects or defocused backgrounds. Some of the new features in version 3 might help. What it needs to bring, then, is either an easier workflow, better results or features the others don’t have. Lightroom has its own perspective correction tools, as does Photoshop. ViewPoint serves a very useful function, then, but it’s not unique. ViewPoint is designed to correct the converging verticals and other exaggerated perspective effects you get with wideangle lenses – DxO Optics Pro only corrects lens aberrations like distortion, chromatic aberration, corner shading (vignetting) and edge softness.

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It works as a standalone application, as a plug-in for Lightroom, Photoshop and Elements and as a fully-integrated panel within DxO PhotoLab, DxO’s flagship optical correction and raw processing tool. DxO ViewPoint 3 is the latest version of DxO’s perspective and distortion correction program.