Lens Corrections
Most lenses need some amount of correction in post-production. Various unwanted effects such as barreling or chromatic aberrations may appear at certain apertures, focal lengths, and focal distances. Different camera brands have varying approaches to fixing it, and not all lenses are made equal. This panel is where we will be controlling all aspects of these corrections.
Lens Corrections, especially in Auto mode, will work best on RAW files. They can be applied to .jpg
files as well but may produce unexpected and unsatisfying results, in which case we need to apply Profile in Manual mode.
Figure 6.70 – Lens Corrections – Profile and Manual settings
Profile mode
The first box to check is Remove Chromatic Aberration. It's not a secret that many lenses create some level of chromatic aberration, especially very fast ones in bright conditions. This tool will get rid of it to a certain degree, but usually, we will want to...