The new version of ViewPoint offers a few improvements, by the way. With ViewPoint, you have them both just a click away. It tries to get the job done with a single click.īut only you can determine the best approach for any particular image. It is ambitious about it's approach to straightening and perspective correction, though. Lightroom 5 isn't quite as ambitious at tackling these issues as ViewPoint. It takes a little intelligence to know how much of which correction to apply to each problem. Wide angle lenses simply can't maintain both straight lines and proper shapes.īut when both problems appear in an image, no automated approach will work reliably. Line and volume distortions frequently appear in the same image. But it often isn't a problem (some photographers like Garry Winogrand seem to prefer it).īut what happens when you have two lines in an image that should be parallel and yet converge? That's an optical distortion.Īnd it is quite a different problem from having not lines but 3D objects or "volumes" that should be a certain shape but are clearly distorted by the lens. Straightening a horizon (which is a single line), while not an optical distortion, can be easily handled by any of these automated corrections, so it gets thrown into the bag. Optical distortion is not a simple phenomenon. Because you just don't like the distortion you're seeing in your wide angle shots, we might have added.īut that's just the tip of the iceberg. "You know if you need this," we wrote in our review.
But it is still a difficult little piece of software to appreciate. In fact, we were briefed twice on the new version before its release.
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