It does not currently support DxO’s new non-destructive multipage TIFF workflow, however, so ViewPoint does remain better integrated with PhotoLab. If you’re using the Nik Collection from within PhotoLab and you already have DxO ViewPoint, you already have all the tools in Perspective Efex, but if you don’t have ViewPoint, Perspective Efex can fill that gap. Perspective Efex also adds tilt-shift lens effects. Most host applications will have perspective correction tools of their own, but not volumetric correction.
Perspective Efex offers automatic and manual perspective correction, plus volumetric distortion correction, where wide-angle lenses elongate objects near the edge of the frame. It has some of the DNA of DxO ViewPoint, the perspective correction tool built to work alongside (and within) DxO PhotoLab, and the little-known DxO Perspective Mac application.
It can also correct ‘volumetric’ distortion, which regular perspective correction tools don’t. It offers very effective perspective corrections, with an Auto adjustment that can often fix everything that needs fixing. Perspective Efex is a new tool introduced with DxO Nik Collection 3. But even though your host software will have local adjustments of its own, Viveza’s way of working is still very fast, intuitive and, well, different. It’s limited in a way because it’s based mainly around control point adjustments and does not offer any creative effects beyond that.
What’s more you can combine these filters any way you like to create processing ‘Recipes’.
The Nik Collection 4.2 update has made the Nik plug-ins work with Photoshop running in native M1 mode on M1 Macs, fixed a compatibility issue with Capture One and the new versions of Silver Efex Pro and Viveza, and has made Silver Efex Pro’s U-point adjustments more responsive.