Correcting barrel distortion and panoramas

In photography, a wide-angle lens allows you to take in an expansive scene from a …very close vantage point, and as a result you can get some great shots, but it …comes at a price, and that price is barrel distortion. …Meaning that the vertical and horizontal elements of the scene bow outward. …Now, the problem becomes compounded when you stitch multiple images together to …create a panorama, in which case Photoshop has to actually purposely …distort the scene in order to create alignment between the shots.…

Which is why the program includes a filter, called Adaptive Wide-Angle that …allows you to remove that distortion, either automatically or with your help …and it provides you with some great manual correction tools, as you're about …to see. Which means that you can correct a …standard 17 millimeter shot for example, or a really wide angle GoPro shot, but …Adaptive Wide-Angle is essential for correct panoramas, as I'll show you in …these movies.…