Lens Distortion
Last week I blogged about one of my favorite lenses, the Canon 16 – 35. It’s a great lens, but like with any wide angle lens you will get a bit of lens distortion on the edges. Nicole asked if I had ever tried the lens distortion tool while editing, but I hadn’t. I didn’t even know if Photoshop had one!
Flash forward to this past weekend. The good people at Adobe were kind enough to send me a copy of Adobe Lightroom Photoshop 3 to try out for myself. As it was loading I was reading about all the new features and one of those features was a lens distortion tool. It’s super awesome because you simply pick what lens you were using and it is fixed automatically. The have most Canon, Nikon, and Sigma wide angle lenses to choose from as well as a couple of Sony and Tamron lenses.
Here is the original image taken with the Canon 16 – 35 2.8:
Here is the corrected image:
The change is subtle, but I think it looks great! You can really see the difference when you look at the block wall in the background. See how on the original image it curves up on the sides (on the top and bottom of the wall). On the corrected image it’s just a straight line. Pretty cool and it was so easy!
I’ll be doing a full review on Lightroom when I get to know how to use it and work it into my work flow. But, I am really impressed. Especially with the noise reduction. Wow! It’s amazing!
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huh. I don’t see any difference!
Like I said, it’s subtle. But, if you look at the girls on the end and look at the wall you can see a difference.
what are you using to learn lightroom? any books or tutorials or are you learning on your own?
i can see a difference btw.
hope´s last [type] ..New School
I can’t wait to hear what you think about Lightroom. I LOVE it. It has decreased my post-processing time TONS! I also really like the noise reduction feature. Have fun playing!!
GayleV´s last [type] ..Friend From Scotland
I Love lightroom! I process all my Raw in lightroom and it has cut down my post processing time a by hours! I love the sorting and cataloging and the ability to quickly apply presets. I only have version 1.1 but it is awesome and I have not needed to upgrade. I actually thought you used it already
I spend about 90% of the editing time in lightroom and only 10% in photoshop. I love how I can have my presets for nikon and canon to mimic the in camera jpeg settings. As a tip you can take the class at a local community college and get the student discount on software if you are wanting to learn for a very reasonable price.
I am OBSESSED with LR3. Honestly it is so user friendly I completely taught my self how to do it. I’m sure there are tricks I don’t know about, but honestly it makes me LOVE editing:)
Haha, boy was I surprised to see this post in my RSS feeds. I can see a difference, the girl on the right looks less distorted. The building looks thinner too.
You can do the lens correction under PS too–on CS5 it is Filter, Lens Correction and then you choose your camera model and lens.
Thanks for the mention
I’m your loyal fan from Alabama LOL!