(5 votes, average: 4.40 out of 5)
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Early testing indicates DPP 3.4.1 still suffers from the low IQ and edit image window issues that started with DPP 3.0. As Canon adds features, basic preview and edit window IQ gets worse. This problem has been verified by XT, 20D, XTi and 5D users. We can only recommend all users switch back to DPP 2.2 for superior edit image window quality. It’s so bad many of the images appear completely out of focus. High image quality is absolutely essential in edit image preview mode. Otherwise, we are doomed to check our output after every edit to properly analyze the image. Also, DPP 3.4.1 carries on the confusing tradition of not allowing a double click to enter a docked toolbar mode – which all versions of DPP had prior to 3.0. Now it’s a double click on the thumbnail in the front page to get to a full screen edit with no dockable tool bar. Or, one can select the image in the thumbnail front page, then travel all the way back up to the upper left for the “edit image window” for editing with a docked toolbar, which is tedious. Why is there an edit image window and an edit window? Why not just make a double click take you to a docked or optional undocked toolbar edit window? Why can you no longer dock the tool bar after double clicking on an image? What happened to the edit window image quality?

There are many questions, but few answers. Download 2.2 and compare it to 3.4.1 for yourself.

More to come tomorrow.

You can find links to DPP 2.2 in this previous test.