If there is one tool that is way too much under-rated in Lightroom, it is lens correction. Some of you might have associated it with just brightening the images, but it is capable of much more. Now, you do not need to know what goes under the hood, but what you do need to know is that with a couple of clicks, you can drastically enhance your images. Read along to learn how to use lens correction in lightroom.
When to use Lens Correction?
Before we move on to the main highlight of the article, it is important to understand when and why lens correction is used. As you know, lenses are made of glass and the camera captures the image using the light that passes through this glass. However, sometimes these lenses cause certain problems such as chromatic aberration, vignetting, image distortion, and warping the perspective. These problems are specific to each lens.
Fortunately, Adobe has been adding Lens Correction profiles for each lens to fix these problems. Now, let us see how to use lens correction in Lightroom.
How to use Lens Correction?
As mentioned before, this tool automatically detects the lens that you used for taking the picture and applies Lens Correction accordingly. You can find this tool in the Develop Module. However, the panel that opens can be different depending on your Lightroom version. Keeping that in mind, we will discuss individual Lens Correction fixes.
Remove Chromatic Aberration
If you want to remove color fringing, then you can check the box beside Remove Chromatic Aberration setting. Here are some details if you want to understand color fringing. Lenses perceive color in the form of their respective focal plane. If there is an error in the plane alignment, then the edges of the image may become green or purple. Although most lenses can fix this issue inside the lens, it can be fixed easily in Lightroom as well.
Enable Profile Corrections
As the name suggests, we use this setting to automatically detect the lens so that the suitable lens profile is applied. The basic purpose of Enable Profile Corrections is to fix vignetting and distortion.
You might know that Vignetting darkens the edges of your images, but the Vignetting caused by the lens is not as aesthetic as the filter. You can brighten the image by moving the Vignetting slider to the right.
If you use the Distortion slider, then you can fix Barrel and Pincushion distortion. These distortions can warp the features of the image. Pincushion can be fixed by moving the slider to the right, whereas Barrel distortion can be fixed by moving the slider to the left.
Looks pretty easy to learn how to use lens correction in Lightroom, right? Well, it is. But there might be certain additional buttons in your Lightroom that you can explore on your own.
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Fix Perspective Distortion
Depending on your Lightroom version, you might also see some additional buttons such as Auto, Level, Vertical, and Off.
As you might have guessed, you can use these not only in vertical and horizontal leveling but also in a perspective correction.
Using the Manual Tab
Sometimes the Lens Correction tool might not recognize your lens. It might be due to different reasons, but one of the main reasons is that a lens profile might not be suitable for that specific lens.
In this case, we can use the Manual Tab in order to create a Lens Profile. First, go to Manual Tab. There you will see sliders for all of the settings that are discussed above. You can set the value of each setting individually, as per your preference. All of the settings will be self-explanatory, but we should use Constrain Crop only when there is white space around your image.
Although rarely, a lens profile is not already present, even if it does not, you now know how to use lens correction in Lightroom in a manual way as well.
Applying Batch Lens Correction
You might be thinking that learning how to use lens correction in Lightroom is easy but applying it to a lot of images is a tedious process. It is right but fortunately, we have a way to make it less tedious and more efficient.
You just have to apply the lens correction on one image. Then, open the Grid mode. Select all the photos by holding the Shift key. From the photo drop-down menu, go to Photo and then Paste Edit Settings. Then, click on the Copy option.
Go through these steps again but this time, instead of Copy, click on Paste.
Conclusion - How to Use Lens Correction in Lightroom
Now that you have gone through the article, how to use lens correction in Lightroom does not look so confusing, right? It is pretty straightforward, you just have to open the panel and then check the boxes that you want to fix.
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