DxO Optics Pro 8

Easily brighten or darken your photos with DxO Smart Lighting. Make your life easier by using just one slider to add or reduce the light in your image. DxO Optics Pro 8 automatically lightens dark areas (under-exposed) and restores details to too-bright areas (overexposed), while preserving contrast by dynamically adapting settings.

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To go even further, use the Selective tone tool to accurately apply corrections to highlights, midtones, and dark zones.

DxO Optics Pro 8’s default preset incorporates DxO Smart Lighting’s automatic corrections, perfectly adapted to your image without any need for further manipulation. Indisputably efficient!

DxO Smart Lighting is exclusive to DxO Labs.

Retrieve all the details and rich textures in your images with the new automatic Protection of saturated colors tool. The smallest details are revealed even in zones with highly-saturated or “burnt” colors. The correction algorithm takes into account the photo’s global color rendering and your settings to produce the best possible color and texture quality.

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Spectacularly improve your photos’ sharpness with the Lens softness tool, which has been significantly enhanced for this new version. Your images are perfectly sharp, even when you push the settings. This evolution is the result of our drive to calibrate even more cameras and lenses in our laboratories, as well as to analyse image content in greater depth. A DxO Labs exclusive.

Totally suppress undesirable colored fringes. This new version combines DxO Optics Modules with in-depth image analysis to clean up images with uncommon efficiency, effectively putting an end to chromatic aberrations!

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Push the limits of your camera’s sensitivity for images shot at high ISO or shot at long exposures (> 2 seconds). DxO Optics Pro’s perfect knowledge of your camera makes it possible to restore all the details and textures in your photos. And with DxO Optics Pro 8, you can use the new dedicated slider to eliminate dead or hot pixels that can appear during long-exposure shots.

More details, fewer flaws

Restore the finest details without introducing flaws. Use the moiré correction slider to obtain precisely-tailored results for your photos.

Your photos are now directly printable in both full-page mode or as contact sheets using DxO Optic Pro’s new print module. Page setup options include margin settings, image size, and printing of EXIF information — all for quickly producing prints of the shots you need.

Harmonize the color rendering of your images thanks to DxO Optics Pro's support of ICC profiles. Sharpen your images and achieve dazzling results, regardless of print size.

Quickly find the tools you need in the new Lighting palette. You can now perform all the major operations in the same workspace: white balance, exposure compensation, color and contrast adjustment. DxO Smart Lighting uses just one slider to adapt the light and contrast to low-light zones and restore details to highlights in your images.

All the other detailed and advanced control settings are of course present in DxO Optics Pro 8, and available to the most serious and exacting photographers.

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Make your selection immediately in the image browser, thanks to the new live preview that updates the photo thumbnail in real time. No need to figure out if a photo is the original or a version you worked on - you can tell instantly!

To further improve workflow, now every photo once opened in DxO Optics Pro loads instantaneously, even after closing and reopening the application — a real time-saver.

DxO Optic Pro 8’s Mac interface has been entirely redesigned to take advantage of all the visual quality offered by Retina screens. Enjoy unprecedented clarity as you view all the details in your images!