The ability to fix distortion and vignetting issues in JPEGs dating back years was a revelation.Īlso new are the Selective Tone controls, with sliders for highlights, midtones, shadows and blacks. Default processing settings can be customised separately for JPEG and raw images, but we found its out-of-the-box processing was spot on. Increasing Smart Lighting’s intensity slider produced more radical changes that were still expertly judged.Īnother new feature avoids clipping in highly saturated colours, again with great success. This is a new feature in version 8, and it did a superb job of tweaking the luminance curve to reveal details in shadows and highlights without excessively altering the rest of the image.
Lens corrections are applied to images by default, and there’s even subtle colour correction via the Smart Lighting tool. It’s annoying to lose out on this when shooting raw, and Optics Pro seamlessly adds it back into the workflow. There’s a growing trend for cameras to correct distortion, CA and vignetting, but only for their JPEG output. The significance of this shouldn’t be underestimated. Lightroom includes lens profiles, too, but only for distortion (its CA removal is performed by analysing the image rather than from a profile) and it has far fewer profiles for JPEGs.
These allow Optics Pro to correct distortion, chromatic aberrations (CA), vignetting and even variations in sharpness, and they’re available for both JPEG and raw files.
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The software has profiles for more than 10,000 lens and body combinations, and the intention is to double this number by the end of 2013. DxO clearly knows a thing or two about lenses.
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