Removing extreme distortion with a lens profile

The next panel that we'll encounter in Adobe Camera Raw is for lens corrections.…So let's click on that tab to open up these controls.…We'll start off working with this photograph which I captured with a fisheye lens.…So here we have this really exaggerated distortion.…Yet I want to use this image, because I think by showing you one with…exaggerated distortion it can help you understand these controls,…yet also keep in mind that later in this chapter we'll use photographs that have less…distortion, so we can see how we can make corrections which are more subtle as well.…

Let's start off in the Profile tab.…Up top we have this option which we can turn on which is called…Enable Lens Profile Corrections.…When you turn that on what will happen is Camera Raw will tap into this database…of information that it has embedded into it.…There's information about different cameras and lenses and about how these…various combinations can cause or create distortion;…it will then correct any issues.…Well, you can see that what it's done here is actually pretty dramatic.…