DxO 100330 User manual

DxO ViewPoint 2

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

User Guide

Microsoft® Windows® | Apple® OS X

Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction ........................................................4

Welcome .................................................................................4

New features in DxO ViewPoint 2 .............................................................4

DxO help and resources ....................................................................5

System requirements ......................................................................5

Installation, registration, and activation .......................................................5

Uninstalling ..............................................................................7

Chapter 2 - DxO ViewPoint and your production workﬂow............................8

DxO ViewPoint versions.....................................................................8

Supported ﬁle formats .....................................................................8

Workﬂow with host application...............................................................8

Chapter 3 - The DxO ViewPoint workspace .......................................10

The interface ............................................................................10

Correction tool palettes (general) ...........................................................12

Visualization palette ......................................................................12

Menus ..................................................................................12

Saving and importing current settings .......................................................13

Resetting corrections .....................................................................13

Preferences .............................................................................13

Warning messages .......................................................................14

Chapter 4 - Correcting distortion................................................15

About distortion ..........................................................................15

Correcting distortion automatically ..........................................................15

Managing DxO Optics Modules ..............................................................16

Applying an automatic distortion correction in plugin mode ......................................16

Correcting distortion manually..............................................................17

Chapter 5 - Correcting volume deformation ......................................18

About volume deformation .................................................................18

Determining the type of volume deformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Correcting horizontal/vertical volume deformation .............................................19

Correcting diagonal volume deformation .....................................................19

Chapter 6 - Fixing perspective..................................................21

About perspective ........................................................................21

Forcing vertical parallels ..................................................................21

Forcing horizontal parallels ................................................................23

Forcing a rectangle .......................................................................23

Correcting perspectives in 8-point mode .....................................................24

Advanced settings ........................................................................25

Chapter - Straightening the horizon .............................................28

About horizons ...........................................................................28

Straightening the horizon by plotting a horizontal reference line..................................28

Straightening the horizon by plotting a vertical reference line ....................................29

Straightening the horizon by using the slider or by entering values................................29

Chapter 8 - Cropping ..........................................................30

Automatically cropping an image ............................................................30

Manually cropping an image................................................................31

Keyboard shortcuts ...........................................................32

Photo credits: Olivier Lambolez, Olivier Revon, Nyght Falcon Text: Gilles Théophile Layout: degresfahrenheit.com

More information about DxO ViewPoint can be found at www.dxo.com

Trademarks

DxO ViewPoint is a registered trademark of DxO Labs both in the European Union and in other countries.

Adobe, Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Elements are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Incorporated. Apple, Aperture, Mac OSX and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple, Inc., registered in the United States and in other countries. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 and Windows 8 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

The information contained in this guide is provided “as is.” In all cases, including negligence, DxO Labs cannot be held responsible for any damage, be it specific, direct, indirect, or consecutive, which may result from or be tied to the use of any information contained in this guide, with or without the software described in this document.

Acknowledgments

DxO ViewPoint may utilize the following copyrighted material, the use of which is hereby acknowledged:

JPEG

Portions of this software utilize the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

TIFF

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

QuaZIP

Qt SDK

This software is based in part on The QT framework. This software is © John Doe 2011. It is licensed under the LGPL license.

OpenSSL

This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).

Notices, Terms, and Conditions pertaining to third-party software are located at http://www.dxo.com/thirdparty and incorporated by reference herein.

Introduction

1.1. Welcome

DxO ViewPoint 2 as a standalone application.

Thank you for choosing DxO ViewPoint, the ﬁrst software solution for Mac and Windows entirely dedicated to correcting lens distortions and deformed elements on the edges of photos, and to redressing problems with perspective and tilted horizons. Based on DxO Labs’ exclusive lens and geometric correction technologies, DxO ViewPoint lets you easily and efﬁciently restore the natural proportions of the subjects in your images.

New features in DxO ViewPoint 2

1.2.

Distortion correction

Use the Distortion tool to correct lens distortion. Thanks to DxO Optics Modules, you can automatically apply corrections to your images that are perfectly adapted to the equipment you use. If your lens is not yet supported by a DxO Optics Module, you can make corrections manually. Three distortion correction modes are available — barrel, pincushion, and ﬁsheye.

Correcting volume deformation

The Volume deformation tool takes into account your shooting parameters. You can use it to easily correct the deformation of subjects located on the edges of images, whether the distortion is horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.

Fixing perspectives and the horizon

Use the Perspective tool to easily rectify convergent lines as well as complex perspective problems and thus give your architectural photos a more natural look. Use the Horizon tool to level tilted horizon lines in your landscape photos.

Advanced cropping feature

Thanks to DxO ViewPoint 2’s automatic cropping feature, you can easily preserve the proportions of your image for a more natural rendering, as well as maximize the visible ﬁeld for an optimal result.

A clear and intuitive interface

DxO ViewPoint has a workspace composed of a large viewing area along with simple and intuitive toolbars and control palettes. Thanks to the software’s explicit icons, you can readily identify the rights tools for applying your corrections in just a few clicks. Place your anchor points with precision using the Loupe palette and use the composition grid to ﬁne-tune your corrections. You can choose between two display modes: single image for making corrections with a maximum of precision, or side-by-side to be able to see changes in real-time.

Accessible to all

Use DxO ViewPoint as a (32- or 64-bit) standalone application for Mac and Windows or as a plugin for Adobe® Photoshop®

CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6, and CC; Adobe

Aperture® 3.

Apple

1.3.

DxO help and resources

Find DxO help and resources for DxO ViewPoint 2 — tutorials, guides, webinars – in the DxO Academy (http://www.dxo.com/ intl/photography/tutorials). You can also access this page directly in DxO ViewPoint 2 by selecting Help > DxO Academy.

System requirements

1.4.

For the best results with DxO ViewPoint, your computer must conform to the following minimum speciﬁcations:

Photoshop® Elements® 9, 10 and 11; Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3, 4, and 5; and

Microsoft® Windows

Windows Vista® (32, 64-bit), Windows 7 (32, 64-bit), Windows 8 (32, 64-bit)

Pentium® 4, Intel® Dual Core, or equivalent AMD® processor

Intel 2 GB of RAM 400 MB of available disk space

Macintosh

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion Intel® Mac processor 2 GB of RAM 400 MB of available disk space

Installation, registration, and activation

1.5.

Important: An Internet connection is required to follow the steps described below.

NOTE

To process large image ﬁles, a 64-bit system and 4 GB of RAM are recommended.

Registration

You need to register your license in order to activate your software. To do so, go to the DxO Labs website at http://www.

dxo.com/CD and follow the registration procedure. If you do not have a customer account, ﬁll out the new customer form. If

you already have a customer account, log in.

Downloading

Once you have registered your license, you will ﬁnd important information in your customer account about the software, along with the download link for DxO ViewPoint. This procedure ensures that you will be installing the latest version of the software. Click on either the Win or Mac button (depending on your equipment) to begin downloading the installer.

After the download is completed, double-click on the installation program icon that you just downloaded and follow the speciﬁed installation procedure. There are several options for installing DxO ViewPoint:

• Standalone application for Microsoft

• Plugin for Adobe

Photoshop®

Photoshop® Elements

• Plugin for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom

Windows and Macintosh

• Plugin for Apple® Aperture®

Important: A single license allows you to install and run DxO ViewPoint on two separate computers.

Installation - Microsoft Windows

After accepting the license agreement, click on Next. You can select between Standard and Custom installation. The standard installation will automatically install all relevant plugins. Custom installation allows you to choose which plugin(s) to install.

Microsoft® Windows installation window.

A new window will open asking you to choose the folder in which you want to install DxO ViewPoint. If the program does not

automatically detect the directory in which to install the Adobe

Photoshop® plugin, you can select the appropriate folder by

using the Browse button.

Click the Install button. The installation starts and may take several minutes.

Installation – Mac OS X

After accepting the license agreement, click on Next. A window will open that allows you to select the component(s) you want to install.

A new window will open asking you to choose the folder in which you want to install DxO ViewPoint. If the program does not

automatically detect the directory in which to install the Adobe

Photoshop® plugin, you can select the appropriate folder by

using the Browse button.

Click the Install button. The installation starts and may take several minutes.

Activation

Your activation code can be found on the cover of the installation notes provided in the box with your software or in your online DxO customer account.

When you launch DxO ViewPoint for the ﬁrst time, enter your activation code in the appropriate ﬁeld in the software activation window and click on the Activate button.

A message informs you that DxO ViewPoint has been properly activated.

NOTE

To activate DxO ViewPoint for Microsoft® Windows Vista®, Windows 7 or Windows 8, you must open a session as an administrator. Further, if you are using Windows Vista® and the User Accounts Control is activated, you must launch DxO ViewPoint as an administrator. To do so, right-click on the DxO ViewPoint shortcut icon on the Windows desktop and select “Execute as an administrator.” You only have to do this once.

1.5. Uninstalling

Microsoft Windows

For Microsoft® Windows, click on Start > Programs > DxO ViewPoint 2 > Uninstall DxO ViewPoint 2 and follow the procedure for uninstalling.

Mac OS X

For Mac OX S, click on Applications > DxO ViewPoint 2 > Uninstall and follow the procedure for uninstalling.

DxO ViewPoint and your production workﬂow

2.1. DxO ViewPoint versions

DxO ViewPoint comes in two versions:

• As a standalone application, DxO ViewPoint is autonomous. It applies its corrections to the images, which then can be integrated into a host application for further processing (see below for supported image ﬁle formats).

NOTE

DxO ViewPoint can be installed simultaneously

• As a plugin, DxO ViewPoint can be used with four applications:

• Adobe

Photoshop® CS3, CS4 (32 and 64-bit), CS5 (32 and 64-bit), CS6 (32 and

64-bit), CC (32 and 64-bit).

• Adobe

• Apple

Photoshop® Elements 9, 10, 11.

Photoshop® Lightroom® 3, 4, 5.

Aperture® 3.

as a standalone application or as a plugin on your computer, so you can use either version whenever you want.

If an image has been previously opened in one of these applications, you can temporarily transfer the image into DxO ViewPoint. You can process the image in DxO

ViewPoint and then transfer it back into the other application.

2.2.

Supported ﬁle formats

DxO ViewPoint processes JPEG and 8- or 16- bit TIFF ﬁles up to 200 Megapixels in RGB.

2.3.

Workﬂow with host application

DxO ViewPoint readily integrates with the workﬂow of photographers who use Adobe

solutions. Used as a plugin for Adobe

Photoshop® Elements®, or as a plugin for Apple® Aperture®, the application is

Adobe called directly by the host software from an image that is already open.

Photoshop®, Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®, or

NOTE

DxO ViewPoint uses DxO Optics Module distortion corrections; to avoid a double correction, we advise you not to use the lens correction features

Launching the plugin for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3, 4 and 5

in your host application.

To correct an image with DxO ViewPoint while working in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3, 4, or 5:

• Launch the plugin version of the application from the Photo > Edit in > Edit in DxO ViewPoint 2 menu. You can also right-click on the image that you want to correct and select the command Edit in > Edit in DxO ViewPoint 2.

• A dialog box will open showing the option Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments. This option will allow you to use

DxO ViewPoint 2 to touch up images previously corrected in Adobe

Photoshop® Lightroom®.

• Choose the ﬁle export format — JPEG or TIFF in 8-bit or 16-bit (16-bit images have higher quality, but the ﬁles are much larger). Generally, you should keep the resolution at its actual value, and the compression option should be “None.”

• Click on the Edit button to launch DxO ViewPoint.

Dialogue box and plugin options for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 5.

Launching the plugin for Adobe® Photoshop® CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6 and CC

To correct an image in DxO ViewPoint while working with Adobe® Photoshop® CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6 or CC, launch the application from the Filters > DxO Labs > DxO ViewPoint 2 menu.

Launching the plugin for Adobe® Photoshop® Elements® 9, 10 or 11

To correct an image in DxO ViewPoint 2 while working with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements® 9, 10 or 11, launch the application from the Filters > DxO Labs > DxO ViewPoint 2 menu.

NOTE

As DxO ViewPoint sometimes modiﬁes the image size, it is not compatible with Adobe® Photoshop’s smart objects and dynamic ﬁlters, which can be applied only to images whose size remains constant.

Launching the plugin for Apple® Aperture® 3

To correct an image in DxO ViewPoint 2 while working with Apple® Aperture® 3,

• Launch the application from the Photos > Edit with > DxO ViewPoint 2.

• You can also right-click on the image and select Edit with a plugin > DxO ViewPoint 2 from the contextual menu.

Opening images with DxO ViewPoint as a standalone application

To correct an image directly in the DxO ViewPoint application:

• Go to the File > Open menu.

• In the system dialogue window, choose a TIFF or JPEG ﬁle.

The DxO ViewPoint workspace

3.1. Interface

The DxO ViewPoint user interface is composed of 6 principal parts:

The upper toolbar

The six principal parts of the DxO ViewPoint user interface.

The Correction palette

The image display and ﬁle depot

The lower toolbar

The image display and file depot

The image display is the largest part of the application workspace and is where images are displayed as you correct them. It is also a ﬁle depot area into which you can drag and drop image ﬁles directly from your computer directories.

The Visualization palette

Image size indicator (in pixels)

TIP

You can click directly in the display area to open your system directory and choose the image you want to correct.

The upper toolbar

Located at the top of the DxO ViewPoint window, the upper toolbar includes tools for opening and saving ﬁles, as well as for different display modes and navigation. From left to right:

File > Open*: Opens a dialog box to allow you to select an image to correct from the system ﬁles or directories in which you store your photos.

File > Save As*: Opens a system dialog box to allow you to save the image corrected and processed in DxO ViewPoint. (Note: It is common practice to save the corrected image under a different name than that of the original.)

Display single image button: Display corrected and initial images one behind the other; to toggle, left-click with your mouse.

Display corrected and initial images side-by-side: The image before correction is displayed on the left; after correction, on the right.

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