DxO released ViewPoint 6 on October 20, and the headline change is a careful use of AI: masks that pick out one subject so you can fix its shape or perspective without touching the rest of the frame. Just as notable is what DxO says it doesn’t do. No generated fill, no invented edges, and the frame keeps its size.

What changed

ViewPoint is DxO’s tool for correcting perspective, lens distortion, and the stretched look subjects get near the edges of a wide-angle shot. Version 6 adds three things worth knowing about:

  • AI masks in ReShape Fusion. ReShape Fusion, added in version 5, lets you move, scale, or rotate part of an image using a mesh. Now you draw a rectangle around a subject, ViewPoint builds a mask along its outline, and the mesh wraps around that subject instead of sitting on a uniform grid. You can subdivide or merge regions of the mesh, switch individual control points on or off, and set how far the correction carries into the surrounding picture.
  • Direct Raw support. Version 5 only took JPEG and TIFF, so Raw files had to be processed somewhere else first. Version 6 opens Raw directly, rendering it with DxO’s camera profiles in its wide gamut working space, and adds basic exposure (from -4 to +4 EV) and white balance controls. DxO itself calls this far from a full Raw editor.
  • Non-destructive sidecars. Corrections save to a sidecar file as you work, and you export to JPEG or 8- or 16-bit TIFF.

It runs standalone on macOS and Windows, or as a plug-in for Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Capture One. PhotoLab 10 owners get the tools inside PhotoLab.

Why it matters for designers

If you shoot or retouch architecture, interiors, or product photography, the usual geometry fix is global: straighten the verticals and accept what happens to everything else. Being able to correct just one building, one product, or one face stretched at the edge of a group shot is a real step up, and it’s the kind of fix that used to mean careful masking and warping in Photoshop.

The “no generated pixels” stance matters too. A lot of clients, especially in real estate, editorial, and documentary work, are uneasy about generative fill showing up in their images. A tool where the AI only does the selection keeps the edit in familiar retouching territory, and it’s easier to explain to a client.

What to watch out for

All of this comes from DxO and early news coverage. Nobody we found has published hands-on results yet, so how well the subject selection copes with cluttered scenes, fine edges like hair or foliage, or overlapping objects is still an open question.

Reshaping one subject means the area around it has to give somewhere. DxO says it doesn’t fill in the edges or change the frame size, so watch the blend into the background closely, especially on straight lines and repeating patterns where a warp is easy to spot.

And the new Raw support is a convenience, not a replacement for your main Raw editor. If you already develop in Lightroom or Capture One, the plug-in route is probably still the cleaner workflow.