Comments on: Yes, Lightroom 3 & ACR will feature lens correction

By: Nik Player

Nik Player — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:20:26 +0000

Why can’t Adobe release ACR 6 for CS4 ? It looks to me as though it is purely a marketing decision to force people to buy CS5.
I use LR2 + CS4 but LR3 will break my workflow unless I shell out NZ$1000′s this really sucks.

By: Luciano

Luciano — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:03:42 +0000

Very nice feature, finally I don’t need to export and create huge TIFFs file only to correct distortion in lightroom!
I’d like to see a feature added though: compared to PTLens, there’s one little feature – but extremely useful imho – which the new ACR (and LR3 too?) lacks, that is the shifting of the image when correcting the perspective. If you look at the first perspective correction example here, you see that it’s cropping out some part of the image on the top, to introduce some gray in the bottom. It would be nice to be able to set an offset – in the example it would be downward – so that the upper part is preserved and the gray part on the bottom would be reduced.
It wouldn’t cost much in terms of programming and performance… would this be possible?
Cheers
Luciano

By: Nomis101

Nomis101 — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:49:41 +0000

Can anybody help me please. I’ve created a profile of my Pentax lens with the new ‘Adobe Lens Profile Creator’. It’s saved in /Users/(User Name)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/LensProfiles/1.0.
I can use it inside Photoshop CS5 (Filter –> Lens Correction…). But it’s not recognized in ACR 6 / LR3b2. What do I need to do to use my lens profile also in ACR6?

By: britton Fraley

britton Fraley — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:55:22 +0000

“mopping the floor with Aperture”
Those numbers you reference look like complete BS. I see no reference to Capture One, Canon/Nikon supplied software, iPhoto, etc. Also I think you might be surprised by how many photographers still shoot JPEG, and yet still use LR/Aperture. 58% of photographers using ACR?! I’m a wedding photographer and I don’t know nor have heard of one single person who uses ACR. Surely the wedding/portrait market is a large share of business for these products? I’m virtually certain LR is the market leader but these numbers don’t pass the smell test.
[You'd have to take it up with InfoTrends. As I've explained more than once in the comments on those studies (which have run for three years), I didn't include the (lower) numbers on other raw converters because I was comparing only LR and Aperture. --J.]
Anyways, the lens distortion correction looks great. I’m a long-time Aperture user, and don’t really see a compelling reason to switch, but I love the competition that keeps these products improving. What I think is really great about Aperture, that is never ever mentioned, is the album design tool. That alone is worth the purchase price of Aperture, since with LR you would have to shell out another $200-$500 for that function separately.

By: Brian Johns

Brian Johns — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:22:39 +0000

Sweet! I think non-destructive lens corrections at the raw level are awesome and I can’t wait to try it out.
And here’s to hoping the “one more thing…” is some sort of geotagging feature. I can dream, right? ;-)

By: Jeffrey Tranberry

Jeffrey Tranberry — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:06:06 +0000

The fact that Apple doesn’t create a PC version of Aperture is their own choice. They could compete with us there if they choose. So using the level playing field argument isn’t a good one.

By: Mark Alan Thomas

Mark Alan Thomas — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:51:42 +0000

The Lightroom "machine" will always have more users than Aperture for two reasons: First, Lightroom runs on Macs and PCs instead of just Macs as Aperture does. Second, there is no barrier to entry for users of Camera Raw since its adjustments carry over into Lightroom. The barrier to entry for moving from Camera Raw to Aperture is huge since it means losing all of your adjustments. So bragging about Lightroom "mopping the floor" with Aperture is disingenuous since it falsely implies that Lightroom and Aperture are competing on even footing. [No, Mark, what's disingenuous is to keep ignoring the data to which I linked. Comparing apples to Apples, Lightroom is crushing Aperture among pros *on the Mac platform*. Go take another look. --J.]

By: Anders Fredriksson

Anders Fredriksson — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:52:52 +0000

Im a LR-addict. I will defenately upgrade and im a beta user.
But i think the target file handling dialogs in the import is very confusing…
It seems that it always start from scratch instead of using the same interface in the left pane in library mode.
Put perhaps its not final…

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:41:51 +0000

Thanks for explaining!

By: Blaxs.

Blaxs. — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:27:56 +0000

Hi David.
Do yourself a FAVOR. STOP running all over the Internet trying to defend Apple Aperture.
I know you feel a bit peeved but you can’t stop the Lightroom machine.

By: David Schloss

David Schloss — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:40:20 +0000

>>What about face recognition? [No, sorry. When I've queried photogs they've said it's a nice-to-have feature, but that they cared much more about image quality. --J.]

By: DL Byron

DL Byron — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:30:12 +0000

And Aperture 3 was release since that time too.

By: Byron

Byron — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:29:02 +0000

“Mopping the floor with Aperture.” Please post some updated numbers to validate that statement.
[The most recent InfoTrends survey is the one to which I linked. The trend line in it was very clear, and since that time Lightroom has added the imaging improvements I noted (not to mention workflow improvements, etc.). --J.]

By: jim Pogozelski

jim Pogozelski — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:46:20 +0000

OK, so this has nothing to do with Photoshop then. Since ACR opens, er, "in" Photoshop, and the name of the function is the same as PS's filter (Lens Correction), I thought there might be a connection. [To be clear, Lens Correction exists as a filter inside Photoshop (as it has for a while) and has been upgraded there, AND it's being added to Camera Raw. Why both places? It's generally more convenient to apply corrections during the raw conversion stage if possible (as they can be added to presets, etc.), but we want to support corrections to already-processed images, too. --J.]

By: Eric Chan

Eric Chan — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:54:39 +0000

Yes, Jason. For example, it is common for zoom lenses to have some barrel distortion at the “wide” end of the zoom range, and some pincushion distortion at the “long” end of the zoom range. The profile accounts for this. As Tom demonstrated in the video, all you have to do is click the “enable” checkbox to turn it on, and you’re done. Camera Raw and Lightroom will read the focal length information from the EXIF and apply the appropriate correction data from the profile. Hope this helps.