Digital Photo Professional

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Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is the software that Canon ships with its digital SLR cameras for editing and asset management of its Canon RAW (.CR2) files. It can also work with the older .CRW format of select models, and also JPEGs and TIFFs from any source. The full version ships on a CD with the camera, and updates can be downloaded from Canon's website.

The current version is 3.7.2.0 (as of 2009 Oct) and is available for Windows and Mac OS X as a Universal Binary.

[edit] Editing tools

Basic editing tools in DPP include brightness, white balance and picture style adjustment and the adjustments for contrast, saturation and sharpness. The latest version adds sliders for controlling contrast more precisely in highlight and shadow areas. There is also a noise reduction tool which has separate settings for luminance and chrominance noise. Lens aberration tool can be used for correcting the effects of physical lens imperfections like peripheral illumination, distortion and chromatic aberration. Aberration tool only works with RAW files that were taken with compatible cameras and lenses.