A preview adapted to photolab’s intensive calculations !
Finally !!!
It is fast to process !
Deepprime nearly realtime and XD2s ultrafast.
(RTX3090ti, Mobo last pcie version, very fast ram and low latency).
It moves smoothly on screen !
respond instantly, no process to interfere with “loupe” movement : the user has priority and slides on a lowres preview.
It computes before mouse release !
as soon as the mouse stops moving. So smoother feeling !
It caches processed parts !
So when a part of the image is seen, it is possible to go back on it and see it realtime again and even calculate the whole image and so scroll loupe on it realtime !
one-click instant comparison possible (instant image swap) using a virtual copy with settings to compare “in background”.
5 levels of magnification (100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 %).
This is a really enjoyable fluid user experience.
It is now possible to really refine denoise, softness and other tweaky settings !
It is possible now to pixel peep and see any quality problem really fast before export !
This tool is a mood changer !!!
Only 2 reservations : I use now a 1920x1080 monitor to test. Maybe loupe size will be a little small when on high resolution screen. Hope DxO kept the possibility of modifying the resolution of the magnifier very easily.
Anyway perfect for HD screens.
And it would be nice to get back middle mouse button click to compare, as it was in previous versions for a completely fluid experience.
Works great on my 2560x1440 monitor. I keep it at the larger size. Perhaps my only complaint (a minor one) is that I can’t drag-scroll the main image viewer while the loupe is engaged. I have to go to the Move/Zoom palette to do that. Which is actually a very good way to do this task - and maybe the best one when trying to examine the whole image for rendering problems.
@JoPoV That would be because you have a 3090Ti perhaps!?
I have other comments/complaints but will add them later.
The corner behaviour of the ‘Loupe’ is better than it was. I apologise for the quality of the video but I needed to get it to a size to upload here rather than finding somewhere to deposit a better quality video.
To be more precise, the space bar changes the mouse cursor into a hand …
but not with the loupe active. So if to move the “background” in that case I might use the navigator instead (as @Egregius said). – Maybe it’s a glitch … we will see.
The spacebar with left-click/drag allows me to move the main image around similarly to dragging the image around in the navigation window. The loupe stays locked in a screen location while the image is moved around “under” the loupe.
Either method seems ok to me. I’m accustomed to using the navigation window.
Is there a way to lock/sync the loupe zoom level to the main image zoom level? That would be nice as I zoom in/out frequently when reviewing an image.
