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Correcting lens distortion

Correcting lens distortion

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Correcting lens distortion

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- Now, you may or may not have noticed that there are many different ways to adjust for lens correction inside of Photoshop. So, how do you choose which correction method to use? Well, I have a general rule of thumb, and that has to do with whether or not the shot is locked down. Our previous shot that we were working on in the other video was locked down, meaning the camera is set in place. And everybody else that's moving around is moving around. That's perfectly fine if you want to use Adaptive Wide Angle. But if the camera's actually moving through the scene, a lot of times, Adaptive Wide Angle can be somewhat problematic. This is when you wanna use a more controlled adjustment. So, let's look at our shot, here. I'm gonna click on my current time indicator and scrub through the timeline, here. You can see, I just had a GoPro mounted to the back of my car, and I'm pulling in and out of a parking space. Nothing very exciting, but I do have this wonderful fish-eye distortion that I…

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