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Exceptional noise reduction - Dare to shoot at extreme sensitivities!
Push the limits of your camera. Thanks to DxO’s thorough knowledge of each camera calibrated in our laboratories, you can obtain detailed textures and vibrant colors even at the highest ISO values! DxO Labs’ exclusive PRIME technology has been designed to achieve unparalleled image quality. Its denoising algorithms analyze a thousand neighboring pixels for each pixel so as to identify similarities and skillfully recombine the information. This vast exploration requires several successive rounds of denoising in order to ensure that the similarities themselves are not noisy. This painstaking process sometimes takes several minutes, but as this denoising takes place in the background, you can work on other images while you wait! Also with DxO Optics Pro, instantly put an end to moiré in highly detailed areas, as well as to dead or hot pixels that can appear during long exposure times.
Unrivaled optical corrections - Push the limits of your lenses
DxO Optics Pro automatically corrects with an unrivaled level of quality all optical defects for RAW and JPEG photos:
Distortion. If needed, advanced settings let you manually adjust barrel, pincushion, or fisheye corrections.
Vignetting, taking into account the shooting conditions.
All kinds of Chromatic aberrations, combining the incredible efficiency of DxO Optics Modules with in-depth analysis of the image.
Lens softness, automatically improving and homogenizing image sharpness from the center to the edges, even when you push the settings. Thanks to its library of thousands of DxO Optics Modules developed in the laboratory, DxO Optics Pro applies corrections that are perfectly adapted to your equipment. A DxO exclusive.
Light and contrast - Master the light in one click
Restore the balance between overexposed and underexposed areas in your photos. The exclusive DxO Smart Lighting feature intelligently reveals the details in all different levels of light by automatically brightening dark zones and by recovering the details in burned-out areas. To fine-tune the final rendering, discover the unique Intensity control that lets you intelligently manage all of the areas in your photo. For absolute control, handle each of the different light ranges in your image with the Selective tone tool that lets you precisely adjust the highlights, midtones, and shadows separately.
Color management - Add sparkle to your images
Use DxO Optics Pro’s powerful tools to make the colors sparkle in your photos. Take control of the sliders and unleash your creativity by adjusting the white balance, the vibrancy, and the tone curve. Use the automatic Protect saturated colors tool to retrieve all the details and textures in your shots, even in vividly-colored areas. Thanks to prior equipment calibration in our laboratories, you can faithfully reproduce your camera’s color rendering or choose the rendering of another camera so as to unify a photo series taken with different cameras. The creative possibilities are endless! Another DxO Labs exclusive.
Presets - Give a unique look to your photos
With DxO Optics Pro 9’s presets, apply corrections to your images that have been carefully developed by DxO to respond perfectly to many use cases: portrait, landscape, black & white, single-shot HDR, etc. You can also express your creativity by using the “Atmospheres” presets to give your photos a special look and feel. Create your own presets: customize your images, save your correction parameters and apply them to an entire batch of images. Create your own style! Thanks to DxO Optics Pro’s presets preview window, you can see exactly what your photo will look like before you apply your corrections.
Geometric corrections - Natural shapes
Straighten out your compositions in one click, all while maintaining the proper volumes in the scenes you’ve shot. Take advantage of DxO Optics Pro’s simple, visual, and powerful tools to deal with skewed perspectives and tilted horizon lines. Also correct volume deformation - a DxO Labs exclusive - and restore the correct proportions to the subjects on the edges of your images taken with a wide-angle lens.
Export function - A quick and intuitive workflow
Exporting simplified! DxO Optics Pro automatically processes your images and saves them where you want. The Export to disk feature lets you process your images and save them on your hard drive. You can start processing a batch of photos and then continue to work on customizing other images. With the Export to application feature, process your images and export them to other applications such as DxO ViewPoint or DxO FilmPack… or even to other external software that handles panoramic photos, photo retouching, HDR, or cataloguing. For ultra-fast publishing, use the completely integrated Export to Flickr feature to post your most beautiful images to your Flickr gallery.
Ergonomics - Take advantage of an optimized workspace
Gain instant access to essential tools via logically-organized toolbars and palettes. Select a folder of images or create a project containing images from different sources. The preset that you choose will be automatically applied as soon as you open each photo, and you can immediately preview the results of the corrections. Customize your images by applying your own presets, or adjust the various correction sliders to edit an existing preset. DxO Optics Pro adapts to meet your needs: advanced controls are easily accessible to even the most demanding photographers.
Other features
Dust tool - Rid your photos of dust specks present on your lens or sensor in just one click. Memorize the correction and automatically apply it to a batch of images.
Integrated printing - Quickly produce the prints you need either in a full-page mode or in contact sheet mode. Match up color renderings with supported ICC profiles, and adjust the sharpness for vivid prints.
Live Preview - Make your selections immediately in the Image Browser, thanks to DxO Optics Pro’s dynamic preview that lets you see the changes you make to your photos in real time.
Image sorting - Use these new sorting criteria to organize your images even more precisely: camera type, ISO value, processing status, and virtual copy number.
Retina screen compatibility - Take advantage of the visual quality of Mac OS X Retina screens and enjoy high-definition previews of your images.
Complete EXIF data - Shooting mode, exposure compensation, light measurement mode, etc.: DxO Optics Pro displays the most complete EXIF information!
Output resampling - DxO Optics Pro lets you resize images and to improve the sharpness of resized images.
Tutorials - Whether you are a beginner or an expert or somewhere in between, numerous tutorials will help you master the software or perfect your skills.
System Requirements
Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® Vista (32- or 64-bit), Microsoft® Windows® 7 (32- or 64-bit), Microsoft® Windows® 8 (32- or 64-bit), Microsoft® Windows® 8.1 (32- or 64-bit).
Processor:
Minimum: Intel Core® 2 Duo, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or higher.
Recommended: Intel Core® i5, AMD Phenom™ II X4 or higher.
Disk space: 2 GB minimum (6 GB recommended).
RAM: 2 GB minimum (8 GB recommended).
Graphics card:
For GPU acceleration support: : A memory card supporting DirectX 9.0c is required. 512 MB of video memory (VRAM) is recommended.
For OpenCL acceleration support: : NVIDIA GeForce 460 or higher. ATI Radeon HD 58xx or higher.
* To process RAW images larger than 20 MPixels, a 64-bit operating system with 8 GB of RAM is strongly recommended.
** To process Nikon D800/D800E RAW images, a 64-bit machine is required. A machine equipped with a 4-core processor is strongly recommended.
Languages : German, English, French and Japanese.
Homepage : http://www.dxo.com/intl/photography/dxo-optics-pro