An optical trick that’s used to make full size real world scenes look like model ‘dioramas’. It blurs areas in front of and behind the subject to make the depth of field look really shallow and trick our eyes into thinking they’re looking at a close-up or macro subject. It’s not difficult to do in software, but it needs the right kind of subject shot from the right kind of angle – typically from above and looking slightly downwards.
Verdict: 3.5 stars DxO ViewPoint 5 is a specialised distortion and correction tool which has some clever features but is a bit of an awkward fit with most editing workflows, partly because it can’t open and correct RAW files and partly because most applications you might launch it from have distortion and perspective correction tools of their own.
If you want the short answer, it’s yes and no. Yes, you can create digital bokeh, and no, it’s not as good as the real thing. You can, however, create a reasonably convincing bokeh ‘look’.