
It’s especially noticeable with people and faces. Image credit: Rod Lawton ViewPoint 4 tackles an issue specific to ultra-wide lenses – Volume Deformation – correcting the artificial elongation you tend to get with objects near the edge of the frame. Image credit: Rod Lawton With the new ReShape tool you can correct perspective issues in smaller details using a grid of movable control points. Image credit: Rod Lawton As well as simulating the effect of perspective control (‘shift’) lenses, ViewPoint 4 can also simulate the shallow depth of field ‘miniature’ effect of a ’tilt’ lens. It corrected both the horizontal and vertical perspective in this photo with a single click. ViewPoint 4’s automatic perspective corrections are excellent. The other is that it does other things that these programs can’t do. One is that ViewPoint 4 just might do a better job.
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So why would you pay extra to get software that does a job you can do already? Even DxO PhotoLab 6 now has these as standard. Anyone who uses any of these programs already mentioned (apart from Elements) will already have perspective correction tools in their host software.


It can also be used as an external application with Capture One and other photo-editors that support ‘round-tripping’ with external editors. ViewPoint 4 also works as a plug-in for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Lightroom Classic. ViewPoint 4 can be used as a standalone program, complete with its own image browser, but it can only work with TIFFs and JPEGs, not RAW files. ViewPoint 4 can be used as a standalone application, but also integrates with DxO PhotoLab 6 to add a whole new panel and bring its geometric corrections into PhotoLab’s non-destructive workflow. It uses DxO’s lens correction profiles to automatically fix lens distortion, as required, but its main trick is to straighten horizons, fix converging verticals, correct horizontal convergence and – in this latest version – apply local geometric corrections with a new node-based ReShape warping tool.

DxO ViewPoint 4 is a program devoted specifically to lens and perspective corrections.
