Adobe CS5 Lens Correction Tool Saves Your Time

According to Adobe one of the top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 is a highly efficient Lens Correction tool. This is a feature which makes correction of such problems as geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignette easy and quick. This process is essentially accelerated due to automatic correction. Based on the EXIF data stored with the digital photos Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 can determine what camera and lens were used to make the photo and automatically correct the distortions.

In this video Julieanne Kost shows how to perfect your images by reducing lens defects. You’ll see how Lens Correction Tool helps to save your time by combining crop, straighten, and perspective correction in one operation.

In this video from Linda.com good you will see another good example of how to use Lens Correction Tool for reducing of geometric distortion in an image made with fisheye lens. Combination of automatic correction and custom controls yields great results.

Also at Lynda.com in the course Photoshop and Bridge CS5 for Photographers New Features you can watch more tutorials for Lens Correction in the section 10. Correction Perspective and Distortion.  ( Accessing lens correction, Working with the custom lens correction controls, Customizing lens distortion removal, Panoramic lens correction)

A manual for Lens Correction is available at help.adobe.com.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 support a considerable number of various cameras and lenses. But if your camera is not supported you will need to use the Adobe Lens Profile Creator which is a free utility that allows you easily create lens profiles for use in the Adobe Photoshop family of products, such as Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Lightroom. A lens profile contains information about the types of optical aberrations that are found in a particular lens and gives instructions how to correct the lens distortions in an image made with this lens.

Specifically, Lens Profile Creator characterizes three common types of lens aberrations, namely the geometric distortion, the lateral chromatic aberration and the vignette. The general process of creating a custom lens profile for your lens involves capturing a set of checkerboard images using your specific camera and lens, converting the set of raw format images into the standard Digital Negative (DNG) file format using the Adobe Camera Raw processor, and importing the raw DNG images (or the JPEG/TIFF images if you prefer creating lens profiles for the non-raw workflow) in the Lens Profile Creator to generate the custom lens profile. You could also submit the lens profiles that you have created for your lens from inside the Lens Profile Creator to share with the rest of the user community.

The latest version of Adobe Lens Profile Creator 1.0.1 has recently been released by Adobe. You can download Lens Profile Creator 1.0.1 from Adobe Labs. After downloading the utility you will not need to install it – just unzip the zip file on Windows or unpack the DMG file on Mac OSX, and run the software. Also you may download Adobe Lens Profile Creator guide. The latest version of the utility fixes several bugs and improves batch processing. More information about the bugs fixed in Adobe Lens Profile Creator 1.0.1 you will find here.