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Wide angle barrel correction
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 9:02 pm
by JDR
Does anyone know of an inexpensive or free plugin for Photoshop that can get rid of the barreling effect produced by wide angle lens shots? I have found one from Image Align that work well but costs $200.
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 11:23 pm
by HaraldHeim
Andromeda offers a nice plugin called LensDoc for doing that. See
www.andromeda.com It costs below $100.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 10:59 pm
by JDR
Thanks Herald, I'll check it out. JDR
Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 6:50 pm
by lister_g
PhotoFixLens does the job at
www.humansoftware.com
39.95$
Comparing Lens Correction plug-ins?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:14 am
by ChellQ
I noticed that Harold did a review of lens correction plug-ins in a magazine. I can't find a copy of that magazine & the website doesn't show the article. Harold, Can you give us the gist of how the various programs stack up? Is Image Align really worth the money? Do the cheaper tools do the trick?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 1:26 pm
by HaraldHeim
My recommendation in issue 6 of the Digital Photography Techniques magazine was to use Andromeda LensDoc for lens and rotation correction and to use Photoshop's Skew tool (with the help of guides) or PSP8's Perspective tool for perspective correction.
Image Align got a second place, but it is quite expensive and it needs quite some time to produce good corrections. A less expensive alternative to ImageAlign is "Flo's UnDistort Filter" at
http://flofilters.free.fr. It is quite similar to Image Align, but costs almost nothing.
The problem with ImageAlign and many other tools - excluding the recommended tools - is that they force you to invest a lot of time tweaking sliders instead of letting you conveniantly place points for automatic corrections.
Thanks Harold
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:24 pm
by ChellQ
Thanks Harold, I'll download the trail versions of LensDoc, Flo's & Image Align & decide which works best for me. I've never heard of Flo's before. It's good to know that don't have to pony up $200 for Image Align to get good lens correction software.
barreling correction
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 7:18 pm
by jk
it is not free, but is included in PSP 8
Lens distortion correction
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:40 pm
by Guest
Re: Wide angle barrel correction
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 6:43 pm
by queenksv
JDR wrote:Does anyone know of an inexpensive or free plugin for Photoshop that can get rid of the barreling effect produced by wide angle lens shots? I have found one from Image Align that work well but costs $200.
DCE Tools has a great lens distortion correction tool, as well as a perspective correction tool in its package of plugins for Photoshop, all for a mere $39. I use this plugin package almost everytime I use Photoshop and really recommend it.