How do you apply lens corrections in Lightroom?

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Lens distortion and vignetting are two major problems caused by lenses that you have probably encountered at some point.

In this article, a great tutorial on how to use Lightroom's lens correction panel properly to solve these problems.

The lens correction panel is often overlooked in Lightroom, but it is an extremely powerful tool for improving a photo. In this tutorial, Lucy Martin explains how these adjustments can be used to solve the problems mentioned above.

Lucy starts with a photo taken with a wide-angle lens. This lens caused two problems: distortion at the edges, with curved lines that should have been straight, and green fringes around certain parts of the image.

First, she shows that Lightroom already has an option to correct these problems automatically for most lenses. This option is easy to find and does a reasonably decent job automatically.

Notice that under 'Lens Profile', the type and model of your lens are filled in automatically! This method works well, but is not quite perfect yet.

So she moves on to the manual tab to improve the photo further. Here she demonstrates the benefits of correcting lens distortion.

She is able to improve the image by accurately adjusting the size of the subject and the lines along the edge of the photo.

She can then use Lightroom's adjustment sliders to remove the exact colours that need to be corrected in the image and completely solve the problem of green chromatic aberration.

Finally, the light falloff tool is used to remove the natural vignette produced by the lens.

In the photo below, I have ticked 'Enable Profile Corrections' in the automatic mode (profile). It is a little difficult to see, but this immediately straightened out the spherical shape of the middle door panel. 'Remove Chromatic Aberration' did not do much for this photo.

Every lens you photograph with, regardless of its quality, ultimately has a problem that needs to be corrected. This video explains very clearly how to solve these problems quickly and how to adjust a photo back to how it was originally captured.

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