New DxO Optics Pro v4.5 Features Adobe®
Photoshop® Lightroom™ Plug-in, Direct to Flickr
Export, Automatic Cropping and Significant Speed Gains
Free upgrade for all existing DxO Optics Pro
v4.x users continues DxO Labs pioneering accomplishments
in support of today’s new generation of software for
photographers
Paris, France – June 26, 2007 – DxO Labs today
announces the immediate availability of the new version
of its flagship product – DxO Optics Pro v4.5 –
for both Windows and Macintosh computer systems. Enriched
with exclusive features including an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
plug-in, DxO Optics Pro v4.5 software demonstrates DxO’s
continued commitment to providing photographers worldwide
with an unrivalled set of digital imaging software tools.
DxO Optics Pro v4.5 features the first third-party plug-in
for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™
DxO Labs once again pioneers compatibility with Adobe technologies
for demanding digital photographers. With the release of
version 4.5, DxO Optics Pro offers the first-ever third-party
plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Photographers can
now integrate DxO Optics Pro and Lightroom into their workflow:
Via the exclusive “DxO Optics Pro Plug-in” in
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, users can send their images straight
from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to DxO Optics Pro for processing
and save corrected files directly into their Lightroom library
(with the image metadata intact).
Via the “Export to Lightroom” feature within
the stand-alone version of DxO Optics Pro v4.5 which enables
users to send their images directly to an Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom library.
Of course, DxO Optics Pro v4.5 remains a stand-alone application
as well as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop.
“DxO’s goal is to enrich and support the workflow
platform that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom provides today’s
professional photographers. The new DxO Optics Pro Plug-in
for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the first step in tightly
integrating DxO image science into this very popular photographic
software embraced by photographers around the world,”
says Luc Marin, vice president of the Photography business
at DxO Labs. “In order to provide this support for
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom so quickly we were able to creatively
develop the plug-in for Lightroom before the software developer’s
kit, or SDK, was even available to us .Once the SDK is made
available, we will engineer an even more elegant plug-in
solution than it is already and completely maximize the
interoperability of these two digital imaging tools. Of
course, we will continue to focus on our forte, advanced
automated image processing, and we will integrate with other
software when it makes sense.”
The Flickr Export Plug-in now available
DxO Optics Pro v4.5 includes the previously announced free
Flickr Export plug-in allowing automatic login, tagging
and fast uploading of DxO Optics Pro processed images to
Flickr.com, the wildly popular photo-sharing Web site.
More automatic features
DxO Optics Pro, known for its automatic image correction
and enhancements, now features another automatic function:
Automatic Crop. DxO Optics Pro v4.5 maximizes the remaining
image surface, respects the height/width ratio and preserves
the geometric center of the image providing users with an
immediate view of the final effect of the crop. This feature
is particularly useful on a batch of images that have been
corrected for horizon alignment or perspective, for example.
Faster, ever faster… improvements to RAM usage and
GPU implementation
DxO Labs’ talented engineering team has made DxO Optics
Pro v4.5 faster and more efficient. RAM usage is more economical
(up to 50% gain) and, with the beginning of Graphic Processing
Unit (GPU) implementation, there are significant display
speed gains—of up to 50%—depending on the user’s
hardware. “DxO Optics Pro performs a huge amount of
processing on images due to the number of automated correction
features available – so improving performance is always
high on our list. Now, in version 4.5 we’re taking
advantage of the available power in the computer’s
GPU or video-card to accelerate some specialized imaging
functions,” explains Luc Marin.
Pricing and availability
The upgrade to DxO Optics Pro v4.5 is free for all users
of DxO Optics Pro v4.x (4.0, 4.1, and 4.2).
DxO Optics Pro v4.5 is available immediately from the DxO
Labs e-store (www.dxo.com <http://www.dxo.com/> )
as well as from selected distributors and resellers worldwide.
Upgrades are available on www.dxo.com <http://www.dxo.com>
.
Pricing of full versions of DxO Optics Pro v4.5 are:
- DxO Optics Pro
v4 Starter: $79
- DxO Optics Pro
v4 Standard: $169
- DxO Optics Pro
v4 Elite: $299
(All prices are excluding sales taxes)
Operating System Requirements
DxO Optics Pro 4.5 is available for Windows 2000, XP or
VISTA (32-bit only) as well as for Apple Macintosh OS X.3.9
or later. On Apple Macintosh, DxO Optics Pro 4.5 is available
as a universal binary and optimized for Intel-Mac processors.
