Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP) 4.5.20 Now Available By dcnadmin on January 12, 2017 (updated March 9, 2017) Canon has released new version of the Digital Photo Professional software.
Lightroom VS. Canon Digital Photo Professional
Hi everyone!
For the past three months or so I've been using Lightroom (LR) for editing and database purposes. After reading about Canon's Digital Photo Professional (DPP), I decided to give it a try (it's free so why not).
After a bit of messing around in DPP, it seems that by using the 'unsharp mask' and the 'digital lens optimizer', I'm able to get slightly sharper images (in some instances) than I was able to get in LR. My default sharpening in LR is 50, 1, 40, 75 (amount, radius, detail, masking in that order). In DPP, I'm using the default 3, 4, 4 (strength, fineness, threshold) unsharp mask and 50 digital lens optimizer.
Take for example this pair of images where the bricks look more crisp in the DPP picture (which is the first one). However, DPP seems a bit more clunky to me, but that may be because I'm not used to it.
Has anyone switched between the two programs, and can offer me their insight?
Thanks a lot!
EDIT: Look at these two crops for a comparison (put them in separate tabs in your browser and switch between them). The first is DPP while the second is LR image 1image 2.
Canon USA have released a new version of Digital Photo Professional, Canon’s software application for editing and converting RAW images shot by EOS Digital cameras.
Changes from the previous version include:
(1-1) The Copy Stamp Tool (to adjust images by copying and pasting some part of the image) was added.
(1-2) The Rename Tool (to change multiple file names at once) was added.
(1-3) Lines appeared in the bottom of images converted from RAW images taken with certain models when using Digital Photo Professional 1.5.0/1.6.0 on a computer with dual processors or Hyper-Threading Technology. This problem has now been fixed.
(1-4) Support was added for the EOS D60 and EOS Kiss Digital N / EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT / EOS 350D DIGITAL.
(1-5) The amount of time it takes for image thumbnails to appear has been reduced.
Website:Canon USA - Digital Photo Professional v.1.6.1
Important
1. This software is exclusively for Windows XP/Windows 2000.
2. Please make sure that at least one of the following applications is installed in your computer before downloading Digital Photo Professional 1.6.1 Updater for Windows.
- File Viewer Utility 1.1 - 1.3
- EOS Viewer Utility 1.0 - 1.2
- Digital Photo Professional 1.0/1.1/1.5/1.6.0
- RAW Image Task 1.2/2.0
3. To use the remote shooting function in Digital Photo Professional 1.6.1, EOS Capture 1.2.0 or later needs to be installed in your computer. (EOS Capture 1.2.0 can be downloaded from Canon’s Web site.)
Digital Photo Professional 1.6.1 is not compatible with EOS Capture 1.0.0. Please install EOS Capture 1.2.0 or later to use this function.
Changes
1. Changes in Digital Photo Professional 1.6.1 from the previous Digital Photo Professional 1.5.0/1.6.0 are as follows:
(1-1) The Copy Stamp Tool (to adjust images by copying and pasting some part of the image) was added.
(1-2) The Rename Tool (to change multiple file names at once) was added.
(1-3) Lines appeared in the bottom of images converted from RAW images taken with the following models when using Digital Photo Professional 1.5.0/1.6.0 on a computer with dual processors or Hyper-Threading Technology. This problem has now been fixed.
- EOS D60
- EOS 10D
- EOS Kiss Digital / EOS DIGITAL REBEL / EOS 300D DIGITAL
- EOS-1Ds Mark II
(1-4) Support was added for the EOS D60 and EOS Kiss Digital N / EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT / EOS 350D DIGITAL.
(1-5) The amount of time it takes for image thumbnails to appear has been reduced.
2. Changes from the Digital Photo Professionals 1.0.0 are as follows:
(2-1) An image-cropping tool was added.
(2-2) A simulation function for CMYK printing was added.
When you select a profile you want to use in your print in the [Preferences] dialog box, the image in Digital Photo Professional and the printed image will be displayed in colors based on the selected profiles. However, the profiles specified in this function will not be applied when Easy-Photo Print is used.
(2-3) It has become possible to transfer multiple images to any image-editing application with a single operation.
(2-4) In the main window Tree View Area, you can copy, locate, or delete the folders.
(2-5) In the RAW images adjustment tool palette, the tone curve has been changed to a log display.
(2-6) You can specify the printer profiles in [Color management] in the [Preferences] dialog box.
(2-7) When saving an image file, the image size can be specified in the [Save as] dialog box.
(2-8) When saving images in JPEG, you can specify the settings to embed the ICC profile in the image using the [Save as] dialog box.
(2-9) When saving images in TIFF, you can specify sharpness settings in the [Save as] dialog box.