The large central work area is flanked to the right with a panel offering the program's corrections-Anamorphosis, Keystoning, Horizon, and Crop, along with a loupe. You can drag-and-drop a photo or open it the old fashioned way with a File dialog to start working on a photo. ViewPoint's standalone application window sports the simple, pleasing dark gray user interface found in up-to-date photo apps. When you install ViewPoint with custom settings, you can choose to install plugins for Photoshop CS3 through CS6 and/or Lightroom. At 255MB, it's not the smallest program you'll download and install. Setup and Interface I tried the standalone version on a 3.4GHz quad-core Windows 8 test machine (it's available for Mac OS X, as well). The correct form of the originally 3D subject is changed, and not usually in a pleasing way! ViewPoint also can correct more straightforward perspective problems, for example, if you're pointing the camera up at a building and want the shot to look straight on. The Problems DxO refers to the major issue ViewPoint tries to solve as 'volume anamorphosis,' which describes what happens to, for example, a head at the side of a wide-angle shot that looks stretched.

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