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Distorted Objects in Pictures? Check out ReShape in DxO ViewPoint 4!
Photo Moment - October 06, 2022
DxO ViewPoint 4 is here with an incredible new super power! The new ReShape tool lets you reshape, distort, un-distort any part of your photo to correct or creatively disrupt any part of your image!
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The ReShape tool is SO COOL! Get your free trial here https://photojoseph.com/DxO-ViewPoint
The reshape tool is missing a key important feature, being able to drag nodes or groups of nodes in a straight line. I just want to compress or expand the upper or lower 1/3rd of an image without skewing it's angle. This is nearly impossible with a mouse or extremely time consuming with arrow keys. There should be a way to drag a groups of nodes in a straight line without skewing in a different direction. Such a missed opportunity.
I would think the arrow keys would work fine. How far are you dragging it that the arrows don’t work for you? This tool is designed for corrective distortion; it’s not Kai’s Super Goo (look it up 😁)
Thanks Joseph, can this be used as stand alone, or as plugin to LR & PS
i tried this SW only some minutes before realizing it cannot work with raw photos. After this i deleted this immediatly
That’s because the app doesn’t have all the other tools you’d need to work with raw files. If you opened a raw file here and exported as a tif, you’d be giving up all the power of the raw process. It belongs later in the workflow. However if you install this AND PhotoLab, then you get all of these features in PhotoLab, which you can apply to the raw image.
Friend, could you convey my thoughts to the management of Panasonic Lumix? :Hello panasonic as I noticed you don't want to switch to phase-contrast autofocus. But you can stop and contrast on one condition! Your cameras can shoot in OPEN Gate 4k3, they are aimed at anamores from 1.33 to get 16.9 and with anamorphs there is no focus, then you could revolutionize by making a codec or a program in which it would be possible to change the autofocus on the post. Just imagine you are one step away from revolution, you have already learned how to change the focus on a post in a photo if you master it in mind, imagine you will simply capture the entire market. I understand that it is difficult to gain an advantage in technological terms, but you can beat the entire market with the help of software just do it! Oh, I hope my idea reaches the company's engineers, I hope! And Panasonic you simply have to produce their own anamorphic lenses!
@photojoseph - thanks for another useful video! I haven't played with Perspective Efex in my Nik Collection. But this functionality with ViewPoint seems useful. What don't we get with Perspective Efex that is included in ViewPoint? It seems kinda redundant to need VP if we already have a perspective tool in the paid Nik package.
Definitely some redundancies. The ReShape is totally new. The primary advantage of ViewPoint (VP) over Perspective Efex (PE) is if you're using PhotoLab (PL) as your editor, because you can access all of VP's commands non-destructively in PL. PE is really a plugin, so if you're in Photoshop or Lightroom and want more than its built-in tools, then PE could be good – but so would VP. I know, confusing that there's overlap. VP is most flexible, I think.
Thank for always sharing your unlimited photo knowledge with us mere mortals, I for one appreciate it. I'm really looking forward to the new Photolab 6 elite. I do have one tiny Itty bitty question? Do you use Viewpoint 4 before you process the photo in Photolab 6 or afterwards 🤔, I'm not sure which program you have to used first 🤔 😉
Hehe you’re too kind. After. You can’t bring raw files into viewpoint. However once installed, all controls from viewpoint are available in PhotoLab, so you can do it all there at any time!
Wow. The guys who implemented ReShape tool are f-ing geniuses. It is so convenient. Really great tool. I already know have I can use it❤❤❤❤
Is viewpoint apart of the Photolab application? Or is it a separate application I have to get?
It is a separate application. But once installed, you can actually access its controls from within PhotoLab. It’s a cool integration. Same with FilmPack.
Great video great pictures photo 👍
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