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Processing fisheye and wide-angle images

Processing fisheye and wide-angle images - Photoshop Tutorial

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Processing fisheye and wide-angle images

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Of course, you choose to shoot fisheye and wide-angle lenses because you want a very wide field of view. Very often, the problem with a really wide field of view is that there are going to be light sources on the ends or in the edges of your image that are very distracting. I like the flower here, I like all these lines on the background, but, boy, this whole big bright white thing back here, it needs to come under control. It's not always going to be a big backlighting situation like this. Sometimes there might be a situation where there is simply a lamp or a light source over on one side. The point is that when working with wide- angle lenses, you are very often going to face the tonal problem of having to darken things. For the most part, editing a fisheye or a wide- angle lens is just like editing any other type of image. But because they are so wide, and because you don't always have control of the light sources in your field of view, you're often going to need to darken things…

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