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Keystoning & horizon adjustments


| Keystoning correction | Horizon correction |
| A new automatic tool: the Auto-crop! |
 

Keystoning correction (1)

Although not an optical defect per se, keystoning perspective distortion resulting from the camera’s sensor not being perfectly parallel to the subject is something many users would like to have control over, without resorting to the use of technical cameras or special shift lenses. With this new feature, all of your lenses in effect become ‘shift’ lenses, greatly widening your photographic possibilities!

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Keystoning correction by DxO Optics Pro

Photo: DxO Labs

 

DxO Optics Pro allows the correction of keystoning either through the adjustment of three sliders and a zoom-and-crop function; or through an easy-to-use image overlay feature in which the user simply draws two lines on the image, either a vertical or horizontal, which will become parallel after correction.

A semi-transparent grid is available as an overlay, simplifying the manual keystoning correction adjustment.

(1) Keystoning correction is also referred to as vertical and horizontal linear perspective correction.

Horizon correction

As a companion feature to keystoning, easy-to-use image rotation (horizon correction) is now also included, thanks to DxO Optics Pro’s highly transparent processing engine.

Square-up your image to correct a slightly sloping horizon


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Horizon correction by DxO Optics Pro

 

 




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Horizon creatively tilted using DxO Optics Pro

Photo: Jean Luc Dubin

Both these features are picture composition dependent, and so require user intervention to set them. But integrating these two functions within DxO Optics optimizes workflow, eliminating the need to process certain images a second time using external software.

A new automatic tool: the Auto-crop!

The hallmark of DxO Optics Pro has always been its highly automated image corrections and enhancements. Now the software can automatically crop a batch of images that have been corrected for horizon alignment or perspective for example. Of course aesthetic cropping is still – thankfully - up to the photographer.

Auto Crop

Photo: Cyrille de La Chesnais

Or even rotate it more, instead, for a specific creative effect!













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