So, in ACDSee, you get an entire Search pane with a ton of ways to search for your photos. And, also, actual professionals whose careers are largely shaped by whether or not they can find the photos they are looking for when they need to find them. Luckily, ACDSee has the interests of people like me at heart. Of course, by the time I find the photo, the purpose of finding it has long been lost to the archives of relevant point-making. And it nags at me, like when you’re in the middle of a poignant conversation and that quintessential word eludes you. That’s when I know I’m in it for the long haul: when I start getting obstinate, and adamant. It starts out that I can’t find something and search and search, and then, instead of moving on, like a normal person, I just get stubborn. So you know when you really want to see that one picture but, for the life of you, can’t remember where you put it? I’m not going to lie: I have for sure wasted a significant amount of time on this. 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.
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