In this tutorial, I give a quick overview of Viewpoint 4. Viewpoint is a great app if you often shoot wide for architecture, real estate, or group photos - it quickly can correct any distortions introduced by those types of lenses. It also will correct distortion introduced by telephoto lenses. For more information about Viewpoint 4: tidd.ly/3DC5Dgv Please help support my channel - consider purchasing my Lightroom Presets: www.anthonymorganti.com/ YOU can help me help others learn photography. You can quickly offer your support here, where I receive 100% of your kind gift: ko-fi.com/anthonymorganti You can change the default amount to the amount you'd like to donate. ** I am an affiliate for all companies mentioned here, EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Anthony Morganti’s MUST-HAVE applications: At least one Non-Destructive RAW Editor Lightroom - bit.ly/3gTL2Ni Luminar - bit.ly/2JUJxKw (Save with the Promo Code AM16) On1 Photo RAW - on1.sjv.io/EaGR2K (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM20) PhotoLab 6: tidd.ly/2HhiN9X At least one FULL Editing App: Photoshop - bit.ly/3gTL2Ni Affinity Photo - affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ My MUST-HAVE Plugins: Topaz Gigapixel AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Topaz Sharpen AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Topaz Denoise AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Instead of Topaz Denoise AI: On1 NoNoise AI - on1.sjv.io/EaGR2K (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM20 - May not work on sale product) Nik Silver Efex Pro 3 - tidd.ly/3dc4gYm The Best Sky Images I've Seen Available -- Ocudrone - bit.ly/3vtDpjR *Save 10% with Discount Code: Morganti10 ** Note that the promo codes listed above may not work on sale products. *** I am an affiliate for all companies listed EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Please follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/anthonymorganti/ Thank you!
Great stuff. Distortion was the probably THE reason I switched from 35mm (in full frame terms) lenses. I can see with a high megapixel count (for cropping if you have too much in the frame) and Viewpoint 4 (for distortion), wide angle lenses could be used more often.
Thanks for this. I've had Viewpoint since 1.0 but seldom use it (I bought it from DXO on a package sale deal). Now I will as I've recent upgrade to version 4.
Using the example where you straightened the window, that feature may be useful when you are photographing a mirror or a window and you don't want your reflection in it.
LR-user here and I’m giving PL6 Elite a spin and now checking out VP4 to see if I’d need that. Judging from what you present in this video I don’t need VP4 as the tools included in PL6 Elite do the same job, including fixing a tilted horizon. The miniaturizing effect I’ll probably never use. However, you omitted to review one of the more interesting tools in VP4: the Re-Shape tool. Now that’s something I’ve been looking for, as I was fed up with the need to open up the file in PS to edit it. Why didn’t you cover that one?
I can see its use for some wide angle shots with the caveat that it will crop the photo However the who idea of using a Fisheye lens is to get the Fisheye look and not to have it straightened
Thanks for your video. 2 questions if I may. 1. In the first example of the fish eye lens, it did a great job on straightening the image, but cropped in tremendously. Could the rest of the image be saved? If not, why not just use a regular lens and shoot just the opening? 2. Could this be used for stitched panoramic shots where the image has tremendous distortion? For example photographing 5 shots of a building from fairly close where the final image shows centre of the building very large in frame and then bowing out to the sides of the building being much smaller?
I just switched to DXO Lab 6 from Capture One - does this program do any better at basic lens correction than the one built into DXO Photo Lab, which seems pretty great so far - and are you able to copy and paste corrections to multiple images with this - like for real estate images of different exposures?
One annyoing thing i found with this is that if you luanch VP directly, it only seems to accept JPEG or TIF files, but won't open RAWS (I am using a 30 day trial so it is possible the trial doesn't allow you to open RAW files). This is not a huge deal but something to be aware of (at least on Windows when you go to open a file, it doesn't appear to support the various RAW File formats, even though it can extract EXIF data from RAW files). The other problem is that it it sometimes needs the actual RAW file in some cases to read the EXIF (camera make, lens info, etc) especially if you use "Auto" mode for any of the sections, it needs this info so it can probably apply a lens profile of some sort). Just Some caveats to be aware of. These drawbacks won't prevent me from buying it, but some of the stuff you can actually do in Photoshop (using the Adaptive Wide Angle tool, and Transform/Free Transform tools) and in LIghtroom if you spend a little time and have a bit of patience. I would say this is a great program to use as a plug-in to Photoshop more than Lightroom (because LR has a lot of these functions built-in, but PS doesn't and requires the use of Free Transform, so I would probably find this mores useful in PS). I think the perspective correction shown at 6:09 is the most useful feature (as the corrections I found in LR Classic aren't as powerful for making this type of correction).
I haven't tried V4 but I use v3 everyday and it does not work directly with RAW images as you say. it's very annoying - but I just do all my other edits first, save to JPEG - then correct for the final image in Viewpoint. It's still a lot better than Adobe for correcting wide angle lens issues in my experience [Registered Adobe user for 30 years.].
I'm not interested what you typically do or don't - just present the topic and don't waste more of my time. Plus, you forgot to present the most important novelty being the re-shape tool...
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In this tutorial, I give a quick overview of Viewpoint 4. Viewpoint is a great app if you often shoot wide for architecture, real estate, or group photos - it quickly can correct any distortions introduced by those types of lenses. It also will correct distortion introduced by telephoto lenses.
For more information about Viewpoint 4:
tidd.ly/3DC5Dgv
Please help support my channel - consider purchasing my Lightroom Presets:
www.anthonymorganti.com/
YOU can help me help others learn photography. You can quickly offer your support here, where I receive 100% of your kind gift:
ko-fi.com/anthonymorganti
You can change the default amount to the amount you'd like to donate.
** I am an affiliate for all companies mentioned here, EXCEPT Affinity Photo.
Please read my Code of Ethics Statement:
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Anthony Morganti’s MUST-HAVE applications:
At least one Non-Destructive RAW Editor
Lightroom - bit.ly/3gTL2Ni
Luminar - bit.ly/2JUJxKw (Save with the Promo Code AM16)
On1 Photo RAW - on1.sjv.io/EaGR2K (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM20)
PhotoLab 6: tidd.ly/2HhiN9X
At least one FULL Editing App:
Photoshop - bit.ly/3gTL2Ni
Affinity Photo - affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
My MUST-HAVE Plugins:
Topaz Gigapixel AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J
Topaz Sharpen AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J
Topaz Denoise AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J
Instead of Topaz Denoise AI:
On1 NoNoise AI - on1.sjv.io/EaGR2K (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM20 - May not work on sale product)
Nik Silver Efex Pro 3 - tidd.ly/3dc4gYm
The Best Sky Images I've Seen Available -- Ocudrone - bit.ly/3vtDpjR
*Save 10% with Discount Code: Morganti10
** Note that the promo codes listed above may not work on sale products.
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Thank you!
In Auto there is still significant distortion in the first example. Note the joints in the wall tiles.
Great stuff. Distortion was the probably THE reason I switched from 35mm (in full frame terms) lenses. I can see with a high megapixel count (for cropping if you have too much in the frame) and Viewpoint 4 (for distortion), wide angle lenses could be used more often.
Thanks for this. I've had Viewpoint since 1.0 but seldom use it (I bought it from DXO on a package sale deal). Now I will as I've recent upgrade to version 4.
You can do most of this in the Nik Collection "Perspective Efex."
Using the example where you straightened the window, that feature may be useful when you are photographing a mirror or a window and you don't want your reflection in it.
I use ON1 photo raw which has a lens correction feature which works great. Also has a Transform function to straighten leaning buildings, etc.
LR-user here and I’m giving PL6 Elite a spin and now checking out VP4 to see if I’d need that. Judging from what you present in this video I don’t need VP4 as the tools included in PL6 Elite do the same job, including fixing a tilted horizon. The miniaturizing effect I’ll probably never use. However, you omitted to review one of the more interesting tools in VP4: the Re-Shape tool. Now that’s something I’ve been looking for, as I was fed up with the need to open up the file in PS to edit it. Why didn’t you cover that one?
I can see its use for some wide angle shots with the caveat that it will crop the photo
However the who idea of using a Fisheye lens is to get the Fisheye look and not to have it straightened
Thanks for your video.
2 questions if I may.
1. In the first example of the fish eye lens, it did a great job on straightening the image, but cropped in tremendously. Could the rest of the image be saved? If not, why not just use a regular lens and shoot just the opening?
2. Could this be used for stitched panoramic shots where the image has tremendous distortion? For example photographing 5 shots of a building from fairly close where the final image shows centre of the building very large in frame and then bowing out to the sides of the building being much smaller?
I was wondering the first thing about your first question.
In regards to correcting the picture shout at an angle, can that be done in photoshop using a warp tool?
I just switched to DXO Lab 6 from Capture One - does this program do any better at basic lens correction than the one built into DXO Photo Lab, which seems pretty great so far - and are you able to copy and paste corrections to multiple images with this - like for real estate images of different exposures?
One annyoing thing i found with this is that if you luanch VP directly, it only seems to accept JPEG or TIF files, but won't open RAWS (I am using a 30 day trial so it is possible the trial doesn't allow you to open RAW files). This is not a huge deal but something to be aware of (at least on Windows when you go to open a file, it doesn't appear to support the various RAW File formats, even though it can extract EXIF data from RAW files).
The other problem is that it it sometimes needs the actual RAW file in some cases to read the EXIF (camera make, lens info, etc) especially if you use "Auto" mode for any of the sections, it needs this info so it can probably apply a lens profile of some sort). Just Some caveats to be aware of. These drawbacks won't prevent me from buying it, but some of the stuff you can actually do in Photoshop (using the Adaptive Wide Angle tool, and Transform/Free Transform tools) and in LIghtroom if you spend a little time and have a bit of patience. I would say this is a great program to use as a plug-in to Photoshop more than Lightroom (because LR has a lot of these functions built-in, but PS doesn't and requires the use of Free Transform, so I would probably find this mores useful in PS).
I think the perspective correction shown at 6:09 is the most useful feature (as the corrections I found in LR Classic aren't as powerful for making this type of correction).
I haven't tried V4 but I use v3 everyday and it does not work directly with RAW images as you say. it's very annoying - but I just do all my other edits first, save to JPEG - then correct for the final image in Viewpoint. It's still a lot better than Adobe for correcting wide angle lens issues in my experience [Registered Adobe user for 30 years.].
I'm not interested what you typically do or don't - just present the topic and don't waste more of my time. Plus, you forgot to present the most important novelty being the re-shape tool...
It looks okay, but it's way overpriced.