Ayoul Offline Upload & Sell: Off
|
A new soft proofing mode :
I don't print a lot, so I won't be a great help here. I know that a lot of people asked for it. It's there...
The new retouching tool :
A lot of communication from DXO about this tool. You can either clone the source area or just repair the area, like you can in LR. The fancy thing is that you can also modify the source area, make it bigger than the area that you try to repair (which of course stay of the same size, that's the clever thing). You can even rotate or flip horizontally or vertically the source area. It may be useful. But of course, all of this is done in a tiny window on the bottom left that you can't move...
An example with a bigger (and flipped) source area, and the annoying window :
Projects :
A reminder : projects are like the collections in LR or C1. You can now make project groups (I think that it's self explanatory). That's better. Previously, you could just make projects, include files inside them, and that's all. I can now make a "2022 weddings galleries" project group, and group all my 2022 weddings galleries inside.
I didn't write it in my DPL5 review, but adding a picture to a group is very cumbersome . You have to select one or several pictures, right click on them, choose add your selection to a project, choose your group (if your project is inside a group), then finally select your project... As far as I know, there is no way to make a project your current project, destination project or whatever, and just use a one click solution (LR) or keyboard shortcut (C1) to include the picture inside your group. Once again, the implementation is way off...
Crop tool "improvement" :
All right. Decades after the other softwares, the guys at DXO decided that a crop and rotate tool is useful. Even on my new computer, the rotation is very slow, it's not smooth at all, but it's there. You can with the same tool rotate and crop your picture. Yipee.
Like in DPL5, if you click on Crop : anto based on keystoning / horizon, you can automatically avoid black parts of your rotated picture to be included in your final image. But as soon as you crop manually, in their logic, this item goes back to "manual" and if you don't pay attention, you can include black parts of the pictures. I repeat what I said in my review: ideally, somewhere there should be a on/off button to choose to allow or forbid the inclusion of black parts in your final picture. But no, right now, you can (finally) rotate manually by draging with your mouse and not worry about black parts, but you can't crop manally and avoid black parts automatically.
A small step in the right direction, but still the worse tool of the three main raw convertors.
Perspective correction tools :
They finally realized that it was not revolutionnary anymore, so now the perspective tool is natively inside DPL6.
But as far as I know, the volume deformation that I like a lot is still a part of DXO Viewpoint. They released a V4 version, which includes a "reshape tool" which allows to warp some areas of the picture. I didn't buy it, I have Photoshop for this kind of thing, so I will stay with ViewPoint V3.
General performance improvements
Nothing to do with DPL6 specifically, but it's nevertheless very important and recent. If you use a Nvidia GPU, I strongly advise you to install the new studio drivers, as I did when I discovered this. It can dramatically reduce your export time with Deep Prime or Deep Prime XD. Some users claims a 35% speed improvements, I think that it's almost 50% faster for me.
Others:
They apparently improved color labels, exif, IPTC, etc, but I never used DPL6 for that, so I don't really care about that
That's all for now. I don't think that this was a major update. The new DeepPrime XD is not a reason to upgrade this software, like Deep Prime was before. You shouldn't expect a huge gap in denoising, like the release of Deep Prime was compared to Prime. With complex subjects, it can hurt your picture and should be avoided. The new crop and rotate tool is a small step in the right direction, such as the inclusion of the perspective correction tool inside DPL6. There is still no change on the shadows/highlights sliders...
Edited on Nov 08, 2022 at 01:08 PM · View previous versions
|