Viewer and editor that processes RAW and JPG images produced by Canon EOS digital cameras.
Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is a photo management and conversion utility for dealing with images from many models of Canon digital SLR cameras in CR2 raw format.
Though the application was obviously created for dealing with those who do raw shooting, the program can also edit and manage photos that were just shot in plain JPEG or TIFF. You can toggle which images are being viewed in the Edit menu by toggling "Select RAW images only".
Edit and optimize Canon CR2 raw images
The application has a few editing functions for images for adjustment and perfecting raw images such as brightness and contrast, tone curve, color, white balance and auto lighting optimizer.
The cropping and perspective tools are a good way to straighten out images, remove areas of a photograph or just to slightly change how the image is perceived. Zooming in and out of the opened image is a great way to improve detail and sharpness by having a finer look at the pixels in the image.
When applying edits, you've got the original image open in its own panel to compare changes when you select the "Before/after layout" in the Preview menu. The capabilities of editing are quite comprehensive, opening up a long list of ways to develop and optimize images.
A good way to measure how well an image looks is not just to view the images side-by-side but also to use the application's Histogram to compare RGB values.
HDR functionality in Digital Photo Professional is maintained, allowing you to combine 3 or more images to create a high dynamic range pictures that improves clarity, saturation and contrast on images that are stacked together.
Fix imperfections with lens corrections
RAW images can often be large and contain a lot of data and due to different formats by all of the different camera makers, makes it a real task to get the files that you want. Programs which specialize in processing RAW images like Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom can be expensive but Digital Photo Professional supports most Canon camera models and can provide you with excellent lens corrections.
DPP also tackles chromatic aberration and fixes vignetting depending on the lens used and the data stored in the EXIF data inside of the RAW images produced by your Canon EOS camera.
Conclusion
In order for DPP to properly function, either File Viewer Utility, RAW Image Task or EOS Viewer Utility are required to already be installed.
All in all, Digital Photo Professional is a very useful utility specialized for Canon's image formats that functions as a proprietary image editing and correction suite that works as a good alternative to Adobe DNG Converter or Adobe Lightroom that can apply basic and somewhat more advanced corrections to digital camera images.
Features of Digital Photo Professional
- Color Space Selection: Choose between sRGB and Adobe RGB color spaces.
- Detail Enhancement: Sharpen images with detail enhancement.
- Dust Delete Data: Automatically remove dust spots in images.
- Highlight Alerts: Automatically detect potential clipping in highlight areas of images.
- Highlight Priority: Correct overexposed areas in images with highlight priority.
- Lens Aberration Correction: Automatically correct lens aberrations.
- Noise Reduction: Reduce noise and artifacts in images.
- Preset Image Corrections: Create and save custom image correction presets.
- Printing: Print images with ease using the built-in printing feature.
- Raw Image Processing: Process raw image data from Canon EOS cameras for optimal results.
- Slideshow Creation: Create beautiful slideshows from images.
- Tone Curve Adjustment: Adjust tone curves to fine-tune the look of your images.
- Watermarking: Add custom watermarks to images.
- White Balance Adjustment: Adjust white balance settings for more accurate color representation.
Compatibility and License
Digital Photo Professional is provided under a freeware license on Windows from camera software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 4.19.10 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can Digital Photo Professional run on?
Digital Photo Professional can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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