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Understanding lens profile correction

Understanding lens profile correction

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Understanding lens profile correction

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- Camera lenses have lots of different properties and characteristics an idiosyncrasies. Even a great lens, even a well made expensive tack sharp lens might have some characteristics that need to be corrected from time to time. Perhaps vignetting, a darkening in the corners, or distortion, barrel or pin cushion distortion where the image looks like it's wrapped onto a sphere. Lens flare can be an issue. These are all things that we fight as photographers and fortunately with the latest versions of Lightroom and Camera Raw you have some new tools for fighting certain problems that can come up with a lens. This is something you may already know about but it's also a really easy thing to miss in both the Camera Raw and Lightroom editing tool boxes. I'm talking about lens profile correction. Adobe has profile, the huge array of lenses and built those profiles into Lightroom and Camera Raw and using the data in those profiles…

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