DxO is a French company dedicated to photography. Founded in 2006, it is located in

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the Parisian area, located from its Kilometre zero, centre. It is a Subprefectures in ...

. It markets

DxO PhotoLab DxO is a French company dedicated to photography. Founded in 2006, it is located in Boulogne-Billancourt. It markets DxO PhotoLab, ViewPoint, and FilmPack image processing software and a connected camera, the DxO ONE. History DxO created DxOMar ...

, ViewPoint, and FilmPack image processing software and a connected camera, the DxO ONE.

History

DxO created DxOMark.com, which provides image quality ratings for standalone cameras, lenses, and mobile devices that include cameras. However it has spun off from them, DxOMark Image Labs. On October 25, 2017, DxO announced the acquisition of the

Nik Collection Nik Software was a software development company established in 1995 and based in San Diego, California. The company developed multiple image editing plug-ins and tools (for digital image processing applications, such as Adobe Photoshop) and Snap ...

assets from Google.

Products

DxO PhotoLab

is software which corrects various

optical aberration In optics, aberration is a property of optical systems, such as lenses, that causes light to be spread out over some region of space rather than focused to a point. Aberrations cause the image formed by a lens to be blurred or distorted, with th ...

s, notably

image distortion In geometric optics, distortion is a deviation from rectilinear projection; a projection in which straight lines in a scene remain straight in an image. It is a form of optical aberration. Radial distortion Although distortion can be irreg ...

, with corrections tuned to particular lenses and cameras. It also adjusts lighting and color rendering. The software reads the

Exif Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other system ...

file to gather information about the camera, the lens and the settings that were used. Its automatic optical adjustment can fix: * Distortion of curved line (should be straight) * Color fringes * Light fall off of

vignetting In photography and optics, vignetting is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation toward the periphery compared to the image center. The word ''vignette'', from the same root as ''vine'', originally referred to a decorative border ...

* Make same sharpness from center to corners

DxO ViewPoint

''DxO ViewPoint'' allows the user to correct perspective and lens distortions, especially those caused by shooting with wide-angle lenses when the subject is not in the middle of the frame.

DxO FilmPack

''DxO FilmPack'' emulates the appearance of various conventional films digitally.

DxO Analyzer

''DxO Analyzer'' is a suite of software tools, test targets, and test equipment used by camera companies as well as press publications and websites to test sensors, lenses, and standalone cameras, as well as mobile devices with cameras. Testing can be performed on both RAW and JPEG images, as well as video. DxO Analyzer is also the analysis engine behind DxOMark Image Lab's DxOMark image quality rating website. Results can be displayed either numerically or graphically. Originally introduced by DxO Labs, DxO Analyzer is now a product of DxOMark Image Labs, which has been spun out from DxO. DxO Analyzer includes modules for testing optics, sensors, stabilization, video, timing, and 3D features.

DxO ONE

The DxO ONE is a phone-connected-camera. It is a small 20-megapixel, 1-inch-sensor, 1.8 camera which plugs into a Lightning connector of an iPhone or iPad and uses their displays to frame and shoot an image.

Nik Collection

is a collection of 7 plugins for

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Microsoft Windows, Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas Knoll, Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the indu ...

and applications compatible with Photoshop plugins;

Adobe Lightroom Adobe Lightroom (officially Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) is a piece of image organization and image manipulation software developed by Adobe Inc. as part of the Creative Cloud subscription family. It is supported on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, ...

and

Adobe Photoshop Elements Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the industry standard not only in raster ...

are officially supported. DxO acquired Nik Collection from

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

on October 25, 2017, and it was first released as a DxO product, Nik Collection 2018, on June 6, 2018.

References

External links

* {{Official website, www.dxo.com
DxO Film Pack Review
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