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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 600569" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well I'm using v11.3 (via the free, 30-day trial) and it does quite a bit. Optics Pro reads the EXIF data of your images and applies an entire array of corrections based not only on the lens that used, but on the lens/body combination. It automatically corrects distortion, optimizes highlight and shadow detail, corrects white balance and color and does a great job correcting CA and lens falloff. All automatically! The noise reduction and sharpening seem very good so far, but I say that without having used them extensively. What's killing me is how shockingly good the default corrections are 99% of the time and without me needing to do anything. There's a &quot;Compare&quot; button so I can see exactly what corrections are being applied as opposed to the original image and I always have full manual control over everything Optics Pro does should I decide I don't like something. It could definitely be argued Optics Pro isn't doing anything that can't be done in other applications (assuming you really know what you're doing in the first place) but dear gawd... What a time saver! I can definitely see Optics Pro replacing Camera Raw as my front-end processor....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 600569, member: 13090"] Well I'm using v11.3 (via the free, 30-day trial) and it does quite a bit. Optics Pro reads the EXIF data of your images and applies an entire array of corrections based not only on the lens that used, but on the lens/body combination. It automatically corrects distortion, optimizes highlight and shadow detail, corrects white balance and color and does a great job correcting CA and lens falloff. [I]All automatically![/I] The noise reduction and sharpening seem very good so far, but I say that without having used them extensively. What's killing me is how shockingly good the default corrections are 99% of the time and without me needing to do anything. There's a "Compare" button so I can see exactly what corrections are being applied as opposed to the original image and I always have full manual control over everything Optics Pro does should I decide I don't like something. It could definitely be argued Optics Pro isn't doing anything that can't be done in other applications (assuming you really know what you're doing in the first place) but dear gawd... What a time saver! I can definitely see Optics Pro replacing Camera Raw as my front-end processor. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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