Optics Pro 8 features a more than streamlined user interface for PC users (shown here) and a more efficient tool palette arrangement on both Windows and Mac platforms.

DxO Optics Pro 8 is the newest version of DxO Labs' raw editing software. Eyes Pro combines image organization and direction with a wealth of editing and optical correction tools and the power to batch procedure your photographic camera's native raw files into TIFF, JPEG and DNG file formats. While Optics Pro 8 isn't a dramatic upgrade from version 7, it does innovate a new automated tonal recovery tool and print capability along with a revised user interface and image editing enhancements. In this very brief overview I'll highlight the nearly meaning changes for current users. In an upcoming article we'll exist taking a much more detailed wait at image quality, workflow and output options as we compare Optics Pro 8 confronting Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and Phase One'southward Capture One Pro vii.

Amidst the changes users will find in version 8 are a reorganized palette layout that puts the most usually used editing tools in close proximity, a new highlight and shadow recovery tool, sliders for localized tonal adjustments and a 'smart' saturation selection, which treats colors differently depending on their vibrancy. Version 8 also introduces a bones print module with support for single and multi-paradigm layouts along with automatic output sharpening tuned for the specified print size.

The modular approach

Although this overview is aimed primarily at current Eyes Pro users, it'southward worth taking a moment to highlight DxO's modular arroyo to automated optical corrections. DxO Optics Pro's fundamental appeal to raw shooting enthusiasts revolves around the use of lens-specific modules (see beneath) that provide detailed information well-nigh the optical operation of any supported camera/lens combination. This means the software tin perform automated corrections for lens baloney, vignetting, chromatic aberration and corner softness based on information that DxO has obtained from testing their sample of the given trunk/lens combination.

Achieving the benefits of Optics Pro's automated lens corrections requires the installation of 'eyes modules' which contain information about specific camera/lens combinations.

Eyes modules are available for download within the awarding (run across to a higher place). And one time installed, any images from a camera/lens combination for which an optics module exists volition accept corrections applied automatically. The downside to such a lens-specific approach is that if yous have a lens which is non supported in combination with your camera trunk, you'll accept to apply these optical corrections manually, offering little practical benefit over using competing raw converters. For a consummate list of currently supported camera/lens combinations, please visit the supported equipment page of DxO's site.

New Features

In Optics Pro 8, DxO has sought to accost issues related both to productivity and of grade prototype quality. In this overview nosotros'll take a brief wait at the following features and enhancements:

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