![]() I feel like creating a festive photo and I couldn’t help but think that some of our latest special effects would lend themselves rather well to this. Pumpkins, colorful leaves, black cats - just some of the imagery that make Hallowe’en fun. In the Manage Mapped Defaults dialog, you can select any profile from the list and delete it by pressing the Delete Mapped Default button.Īnd that’s that! Happy perfecting your images! Press the Manage Defaults button in the Lens Correction group.Ģ. You can also manage your saved defaults, should you decide later on that you don’t want certain lens profiles anymore.ġ. Optional: Select the Auto-apply this mapped profile when entering Develop mode checkbox to apply the mapped default to future images upon entering Develop mode. With your desired camera and lens combination selected, press the Map Default button.Ģ. To Save Your Lens Profile as a Default:ġ. As this function relies on EXIF data, this can mainly be performed with JPEG, DNG, RAW, and TIFF images. This will save you a ton of time if you’ve got a bazillion photos with the same camera/lens combo. Now you have the option of saving this lens profile as a default for future use on other images with this camera make/model and lens combination. Some results are fairly apparent, depending on the amount of distortion: Tip: To observe the difference, toggle the Show Original button in the bottom left corner. If possible, recover the correct lens value and select it from the Lens drop-down menu. It’s probably worth mentioning that the lens value displayed in the EXIF information may not be reliable in the case of third party lenses, as the camera itself may only recognize the third party lens as an ID number. ![]() If you’re not sure what the lens model is, you can refer to your EXIF information in the bottom right corner. Next, select the lens model from the Lens drop-down menu. However, if it does not pre-populate, use the Make and Model drop-down menus to select the make and model of the camera used to take this particular photo.ĥ. Often, ACDSee detects the correct camera make and model. Select the Enable Lens Profile checkbox.Ĥ. Open your image in Develop mode, and click the Geometry tab.ģ. To Automatically Correct Lens Distortion:ġ. Mapping the lens profile will enable you to apply the correction to all images with the same camera-lens combination that you open in the Develop mode Lens Correction tool, should you choose. You can also map the correction specific to your lens, (the lens profile), to your camera make, model, and lens combination. The possible lenses for the selected camera will be available for you to choose from the Lens drop-down menu, unless there is only one possible lens, in which case, that lens will be pre-selected. The Lens Correction tool contains a database of camera makes, models, and their possible lenses. It corrects the distortion inherent to the lens used. What’s a lens profile? It means you can select the make, model, and lens of the camera used and receive a correction that is lens-specific. This time, I’m going to talk about automatic correction, which is based on your lens profile. ![]() In ACDSee Pro 9 or Ultimate 9, you have the option of manual correction, or lens correction based on your lens profile. Now here’s an example of what a barrel distortion would do to that:īut fear not - you can correct barrel and pincushion distortion. Barrel and pincushion distortion are common in photos that were taken with wide angle or zoom lenses. In pincushion distortion the photo appears to shrink inwards towards the center. In barrel distortion the photo appears to bulge outwards from the center. It’s not complicated to fix, but it is a bit complicated to describe, so I will do my best to make it clear for you. It happens to us all, even if we don’t realize it. The ACDSee documentation is helpful though so, if you can live with being "in the minority", the money you save by using ACDSee's excellent product is definitely worthwhile.Let’s talk about lens distortion. There will surely be differences but I'm yet to be disappointed or held back by ACDSee's functionality.One thing that Photoshop does have over ACDSee is an abundance of tutorials, demonstrations and help available from the large user base online. I've never been a Photoshop user so cannot compare features. My moderately spec'ed computer manages it well, so workflow is reasonably fast.Import/export is painless, batch editing is helpful, colour management is simple.I particularly like how affordable ACDSee is for my very small business compared to the alternatives. Photo management, image development and poweful image editing all rolled into one. It is yet to let me down (so long as I don't try running it on an under-spec'ed machine). ![]() It provides all the functionality I need for image management and post-processing. Comments: ACDSee photo editor (I use the Ultimate version) has been a game changer for my photography side business.
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