Originally posted by obsidian:
Um, as a user of DxO Optics where all of the image retouching is applied to the whole picture, would this also meet the rules for Basic Editing?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but DxO is intended *solely* to work to correct optical issues, correct? What I mean is, you can't intentionally apply effects in DxO, AFAIK. The correction features of DxO are legal; they fall under the "preserve photographic integrity" clause in the Basic Rules. If they are applied to such an extent that they go beyond correcting a problem to become an effect, even if applied to the whole photo, they are illegal, since effects filters are illegal in Basic. Hope that clarifies!
FWIW, DxO works by deconvolution which is the same way that PS/CS2's "Smart Sharpen" and also FocusMagic work. The advantage of DxO, of coursse, is that the program has much better information about the source of abberations than the other techniques, which just assume gaussian or linear blur profiles.
Message edited by author 2006-01-27 07:46:22.
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