![]() ![]() And, of course, they didn’t appreciate being made to look like that. They looked wide – like watching an old TV show on a 14:9 screen. I had to use an ultra-wide lens to fit everyone in and the people on the edges looked odd. ![]() I once photographed a training school, with 50+ participants, and they wanted a group photo taken in the school location. Wide-angle lenses have to squeeze a vast scene onto a tiny sensor and, no matter how good the lens is, people don’t look right. People on the edges of images taken with a wide-angle lens look wrong. This is a serious tool for a serious problem. NIK Perspective offers the following correction options, as you can see on the control screen: DXO have a vast collection of Camera/Lens profiles and NIK can access these. NIK identified the Camera and Lens used and downloaded a custom module to fix the lens distortions. I developed the image from RAW, with no distortion or lens corrections, and opened it in NIK. NIK Perspective correction fixed it easily. ![]() I shot the image on the left with a lens that has plenty of distortions, and I tilted the camera to make the distortion even worse. Here’s a simple example of NIK Perspective Correction in action: Deformation – wide-angle lenses often make people on the edge of photos look wrong.Converging/Diverging verticals, caused by the camera not being level.Lens distortions, caused by deficiencies in the lens itself.This is a new tool in the NIK collection and corrects just about every kind of distortion in an image:
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