Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Click on the Lens Corrections icon (the fifth icon from the right at the top of the Panel
area) and on the Profile tab, turn on the Enable Lens Profile Corrections checkbox. Now,
chances are that you're done. Boom. It's fixed. That's because, as I said above, it looks at
the camera data embedded in the shot to find out which camera and lens you used, then it
searches its internal database for a profile of that lens, and it immediately fixes the photo
(as seen here). If it can't find a profile, it lets you know at the bottom of the panel (as seen
in the next step). Also, I usually have to back down the amount of correction just a bit with
fisheye lenses by dragging the Distortion slider a little bit to the left (as seen here).
Step Three:
So, what happens in a case like this, where you open a photo and it can't find a profile
automatically, or the image doesn't have any embedded EXIF data (for example, if you're
trying to fix a scanned image, or an image you copied-and-pasted from another document)?
Take a look at the photo here. Camera Raw couldn't find a profile for it, so in the Lens Pro-
file section, the Make is set to None and the Model and Profile pop-up menus are grayed
out. What this really means is that you have to help it out by telling it what equipment you
used to take the photo (if you know), or you'll have to make your best guess (if you don't).
