- Dxo viewpoint cost update#
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As far as I can recall, this was sneaked in silently.
Dxo viewpoint cost update#
Shortly before releasing Nik Collection 4, DXO issued an update to version 3 which replaced the Structure tool with something very different. But with some restraint it produced significant results. Its look was unmatched by anything else, and I loved the effect it had. This tool uniquely emphasised areas in the image.
One of the most powerful and unique features of Viveza was its Structure tool. What was once so easy is now clumsy and error prone. Second, what was so easy – click a control point and adjust its settings, now is so difficult. It is really inconvenient to have to select a control point and then move the mouse over to the right, find the correct adjustment settings and make the change. First, I often selected the wrong set of options in the panel and adjusted the entire image by accident. Then I noticed the scroll bar on the right of this panel had grown and, if I scrolled it further down, a duplicate set of options appears – using these only affects the selected control points or groups… I adjusted the sliders in the panel on the right. Where have the options gone? The control point no longer displays adjustment sliders.
Dxo viewpoint cost trial#
What would a new user make of it? Users of the trial version may never find it and that will cost DXO money… I’m as experienced user of Viveza as you’ll find, and it confused me. Questions: Why move the most important tool in Viveza to the bottom of this panel? Why make it ‘hidden’ – not visible until you scroll the panel? Notice they no longer have text telling you what they do, although they display a ‘tip’ if you hover the mouse over them… The tiny icons underneath the Control Points list now control grouping and ungrouping. I’ve added a star to the panel to show where the tool now lives. No arguments here these are useful features.īut look more closely… Where has the control point tool gone? I had to hunt for it, only to find I had to scroll the right-hand panel to the bottom to find it: So easy.Ĭosmetically, this looks a lot nicer. If no control point was selected (by clicking on the image), it adjusted the entire image. This panel obeyed a simple rule: if a control point was selected, it adjusted the control point’s settings. I also could make the adjustments from the panel on the right-hand side: To make a change, just grab the slider from this menu and drag it. With the old version of Viveza, clicking a control point brought up a mini-menu, making it dead easy to adjust the image: Using this ‘U-Point’ technology is so easy and you can create sophisticated editing masks with it. You can add as many control points as you like and group multiple points. The control points create an intelligent mask, enabling selective editing of the image. Here is what the control point above has selected: This is used to add selection points to your image, and these work magically. The only thing wrong with the interface was it is not resizable. First, here are the differences in the old and new interfaces: Viveza – Old Interface And some make me wonder if anyone at DXO actually uses the product, as they make the product harder to use.
Dxo viewpoint cost full#
Some things are definitely better – it offers a full screen display.
It’s useful if you don’t own DXO Viewpoint but redundant if you do. This addition adds the functionality of DXO Viewpoint to Nik. Last year, they added Perspective Efex to the package. Since acquiring NIK in 2017, DXO have released various upgrades that fixed bugs and improved compatibility with tools such as Affinity Photo. They have now released the latest update to the NIK Collection – a suite of excellent tools for image enhancement, noise removal, sharpening, HDR and perspective correction. I praised DXO’s last Photo Lab release, because it contained a decent set of extra features. Skylum has re-released Luminar as Luminar AI and added very little to it, if truth be told.
Dxo viewpoint cost license#
Since that post, Topaz have (controversially) switched their most popular products to a perpetual license but you have to pay to receive updates after a year. But it’s hard to keep adding additional features to mature products…
Dxo viewpoint cost software#
Back in 2019, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post entitled Is This The End For Photo Software Companies? where I argued that software houses not offering subscriptions were under pressure to release ‘new’ versions of their software annually, in order to keep the money flowing in.
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