프로모션.
http://download-center.dxo.com/v8/Win/DxO_OpticsPro8_Setup.exe
License.
http://www.dxo.com/intl/dphotographer
Like some other photo processing programs, DxO Optics Pro 8 improves your photos. But we improve them more, and better, than any other program. And we improve them automatically. We’ll explain why.
First you should know briefly who we are. Our name is DxO Labs, we are based in Paris (France) and our chief scientists regularly publish scientific papers in the most prestigious journals of the computer image community. This scientific and mathematical background has allowed us to design DxO Optics Pro 8 as a tool that aims not just to improve quality, but to achieve perfection — and more specifically, automatic perfection.
We have tested your camera and each of your lenses.
Our first unique feature is to test all the hardware characteristics in our own labs. Cameras and lenses spend days in the hands of our technicians, who measure not only optical defects like distortion, lens softness or vignetting, but also check and measure noise, colorimetry, and tone curves. They analyze the in-camera processing that is applied (with or without your knowing) to the images. The result is a huge database that has no equivalent anywhere in the world. This is what enables the program – knowing that an image has been shot with a particular camera and lens, at a certain aperture and focal length – to calculate that a particular pixel must have its value increased by x%, moved by y% in this or that direction, and corrected by z% in, say, the red channel. But you won’t have to do a thing: the program will download the profiles for your camera and lens, then silently and effortlessly apply the appropriate corrections.
Our program analyzes your images, one by one
As every photographer knows, every photo is unique. Even if you have shot the same subject with the same equipment, two images will always differ: one has some grain in a dark zone, while another lacks contrast and the third suffers from excessive backlighting. Most programs deal with this uniqueness by using an elementary solution: they offer a wide range of corrections, and leave you to do the work. DxO Optics Pro 8 has a radically different approach. We analyze the image, we find the corrections to be done, we carry our these corrections, and we show you the result, in case you want to fine-tune this or that correction to your taste.
Of course, analyzing an image zone by zone and pixel by pixel is a highly complex task.
Finding that a particular subject is back-lit and needs not only additional light (as if you’d used a fill-in flash) but also heightened local contrast. Seeking out the minute colored fringes round the edges of some objects. Detecting highlights that are close to “burning out” and need to be preserved. Traditionally, all these tasks would have been accomplished by skilled operators in photo laboratories. Now that operator is an extremely powerful application. This auto-analysis of any particular image is our second exclusive feature.
What DxO Optics Pro does for your images
● If you have shot Raw, DxO Optics Pro processes your photos using the best converter ever designed; when transforming the raw sensor data (the “demosaicing” process, among others), this converter is virtually free from artifacts;
● DxO Optics Pro automatically corrects all five optical distortions (geometric distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration – both longitudinal and lateral – and lens softness), thanks to the high-level measurement database that our labs have been building up for years;
● DxO Optics Pro finely corrects the exposure of your photo, with an automatic adjustment (Raw images only) to keep highlights from ‘burning out’, and even recovery of some partially burnt-out highlights.
● Thanks to the measurements made in our labs on each camera body, DxO Optics Pro has the best de-noising process available, letting you shoot Raw or JPEG photos at speeds as high as ISO 100,000.
● DxO Optics Pro offers a unique automatic correction of contrast and lighting in shadows, equivalent to a fill-in flash, to radically improve any high-contrast or backlit picture.
● DxO Optics Pro offers an unrivaled option to change the color rendering of your photo, as if it had been shot by another camera, or on a particular film.
● DxO Optics Pro offers an exclusive correction tool for wide angle shots, which corrects deformation of faces and bodies by using non-conventional (cylindrical or spherical) perspective methods.
● All the above corrections and features are automatic, while letting you fine-tune their settings to adapt them to your taste (apart from the last correction mentioned above, perspective correction, which is semi-automatic).
What’s new in DxO Optics Pro 8
Workflow
– In order to make the workflow easier, DxO Optics Pro 8 now defaults to file and folder browsing. In this case, as soon as you start to browse or explore the folders, the default preset (DxO Default), as set in the program preferences, will be applied automatically to the pictures. The default preset is also applied to every new image.
– Projects are still available, but as an option. If you want to use Projects – which are an alternative way to organize your images – please be aware that the behavior of the program has changed between DxO Optics Pro 6 and DxO Optics Pro 8, as follows:
> DxO Optics Pro 6: if a single picture is part of two different Projects, the settings are independent from each other, and a preset is added as soon as the photo is added to a Project.
> DxO Optics Pro 8: if a single picture is part of two different Projects, the settings stay the same for both Projects. If you need different and independent settings, then you need to create Virtual Copies for each Project.
– Basic editing of files and folders is available, including copy, renaming and deleting image files. Folders or directories can be created and renamed from within DxO Optics Pro 8′s Source Browser.
– It is possible to create a new project simply by doing a drag and drop from the Windows Explorer.
– Stacks functionality has been removed, to simplify the workflow.
– The View tab doesn’t exist anymore. All the corrections and modifications brought to a picture can be seen directly in the Customize and/or in the Organize tabs.
– The choice between workspaces is simplified : Essentials is gone, however you can still choose between First steps (improved) and Advanced users modes.
– There is no more need to save your work manually, it is automatically and continuously saved.
– The welcome screen has a new button you can click to discover the new workflow on a Web page.
Speed improvement
– The correction algorithms have been optimized and the whole application feels more responsive.
– DxO Optics Pro v7 uses OpenCL to take advantage of compatible video cards processing power (Windows only).
– Global speed is expected to be up to 2x faster, and up to 4x faster with Open CL (Windows only).
Image processing
– The new default preset is “DxO default”. It is based on the previous “DxO default v2″*, but adds a default value of 25 to the “Protect saturated colors” slider (see below). The “DxO default” preset is applied by default to both RAW and RGB files.
The preset “DxO default – Neutral color (RAW only)” is based on the previous “DxO default v2 – Neutral Color (RAW only)”* and gets, as well, the “Protect saturated colors” slider default value of 25.
– DxO Lens Softness has been improved and shows less artifacts in areas containing less or little details (the bokeh, as an example).
– Protect saturated colors slider has been improved. The color selectivity works better, and the tool will reduce the saturation of excessively saturated colors while leaving less-saturated colors untouched.
– Bokeh is a new slider in the Detail > DxO Lens Softness (Customize tab). Its purpose is to reduce sharpening artefacts in the bokeh.
– Edge offset is a new slider in the Detail > Unsharp Mask panel (Customize tab). This tool enables you to apply a stronger sharpening on the edges than on the center of the image. This is particularly useful for lenses that do not have a DxO Optics Module.
*: The previous default presets are still available in the “DxO Optics Pro 6 default presets” folder.
Presets and sidecars
– The new storage format is common to Mac and Windows.
– Virtual Copies can be stored in the sidecars.
– When the “Export settings from sidecar files automatically” option is enabled, a sidecar is created only when a correction setting is changed.
DxO Optics Modules
– The Optics Module automatic detection system efficiency has been improved (the system should make more accurate suggestions – for example, it will not ask you to choose between all existing 70-200 lenses if you try to process an image taken with a 70-200 f/2.8).
– Camera/lens Modules Ambiguities management is simplified: resolutions are on a per-image basis, instead of being global (however, you still have the possibility to apply the selected DxO Optics Module for all images with an identical ambiguity).
Further improvements
The Windows version of DxO Optics Pro 8 gets many improvements already available for Mac users:
– When an image is cropped, the cropped out areas are not shown anymore.
– The Image Browser scrolls horizontally, instead of vertically.
– A double-click on any slider resets it.
– The mouse scroll wheel moves the sliders.
– A grid of thirds can be displayed over the crop rectangle when using the “Crop” tool.
– The output settings are automatically saved when they are modified.
Lightroom workflow
– Browsing of Lightroom catalogs and Lightroom external editor mode have been dropped. However, export to Lightroom catalog is still available.
Vendor: DxO Labs
Giveaway By: Digital Photography
Original Price: $299
