#Review nik collection by dxo manual
#Review nik collection by dxo pro
#Review nik collection by dxo software

You can see just how much in the corrected image, right, together with how effective Perspective Efex has been. This was shot with a Laowa 9mm lens which has zero distortion but, like other ultra-wide lenses produces serious volume deformation, or ‘edge stretching’.

#Review nik collection by dxo software

It sounds like there’s a lot going against it but, the fact is, if Perspective Efex can apply a correction profile to your image, it will be at least as good and quite possible better than anything your host software has got. Otherwise, if the image has been edited in some way already, it won’t be possible. Perspective Efex will apply an automatic lens correction if it’s given an unedited image to work from, and if it has a downloadable profile. The lens corrections may not be needed and may not even be possible.

#Review nik collection by dxo manual

Perspective Efex has a range of tools, including lens corrections via DxO lens profiles, volume deformation correction (which you won’t find anywhere else except DxO ViewPoint) for ultra-wide-angle lens effects, automatic and manual perspective corrections and a miniature tilt-shift effect. You can see the extent of Perspective Efex’s horizontal perspective corrections with the Crop tool enabled.

If you don’t, Perspective Efex could save you the cost of buying ViewPoint 3, offering the corrections and effects that ViewPoint does. If you have DxO ViewPoint installed alongside PhotoLab, you already have everything in Perspective Efex right there in the PhotoLab interface already. If you launch it from DxO PhotoLab, the situation is slightly different. The thing is, if you launch Perspective Efex as a plug-in from Photoshop or Lightroom, you’re using a program that has its own lens and perspective corrections anyway… so the question is whether Perspective Efex adds anything you don’t have already. Lens distortions, including perspective distortions, can undermine your images just as much as color or exposure issues. It fixes some of the biggest visual issues with digital images. That makes Perspective Efex sound pretty boring, but it’s not.

#Review nik collection by dxo pro

This suite breaks down roughly into ‘creative’ plug-ins like Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro, and ‘corrective’ plug-ins like Dfine, Sharpener Pro, Viveza and now Perspective Efex. Perspective Efex is a really useful and definitely unexpected addition to the DxO Nik Collection 3. Does not support the new non-destructive process.

As a plug-in, not fully integrated with your software’s tools.Your host software can probably do some of this already.Volumetric deformation correction is unique.Great value as just one plug-in in a whole suite.Simple one-window correction for all sorts of lens issues.On the other hand, Perspective Efex doesn’t just potentially do the job better, it does some other things that regular geometric correction tools don’t. The only thing is… most of the host applications you might use to launch this plug-in will have some of these tools already. It offers geometric perspective, distortion and tilt-shift corrections in a single, user-friendly interface. Perspective Efex is a really nice addition to the DxO Nik Collection 3.