Users can also change their aperture settings when simulating a bokeh effect. Users can adjust placement and intensity and choose whether they would like the effect to be symmetrical or asymmetrical. Previously, such a result could only be obtained through costly and complex tilt-shift lenses. Perspective Efex can also be used creatively at the end of the editing process to simulate a shallow depth-of-field effect, i.e. Lastly, its automatic horizon correction tool instantly levels out skewed horizon lines in architectural and landscape photos. It is the perfect tool for group wedding photos and family photos! Thanks to the use of DxO’s powerful optical modules, Perspective Efex can even automatically correct fish-eye distortion. It is also the only plugin to offer a feature that automatically corrects shape distortion, providing an easy way to reestablish the natural shapes of subjects located on the edges of wide-angle photos. Perspective Efex automatically corrects unsightly leading lines, ”no matter how complex”, claims DxO, which is a very useful feature in urban photography. Drawing from DxO’s unique expertise, it combines a number of exclusive tools to remove defects and add effects to photos.

While in previous versions DxO worked hard to create film emulations to add to the gallery of filters available, as ProVideo Coalition documented, this new version, Nik Collection 3, is more about redesigning the tool, expanding workflow features and introducing a new tool, Perspective Efex, a new plugin dedicated to geometric corrections.

Introduced originally as a series of plugins for Adobe Photoshop, the Nik Collection continues to work well with Adobe’s software and other photo editors that work with Adobe compatible plugins, but as DxO stated when launching the previous version “although Nik Collection 2 plugins play nicely with software like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, DxO’s PhotoLab Essential is the ideal package for launching Nik plugins within its superb and intuitive workflow.” A new perspective correction tool