The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom

28. LENS CORRECTION AND GUIDED TRANSFORMATION

AS YOU START making pictures with your camera, you’ll notice that certain lenses cause distortion and vignetting in the images (Figure 28.1). This is common across different types of lenses, but thankfully you have the opportunity to change and mitigate some of this distortion in Lightroom.

Open the image you want to fix in the Develop module and scroll down to the Lens Corrections panel on the right side of the screen. In this panel you will see a checkbox that says Enable Profile Corrections. When you click on this checkbox, Lightroom will read the image metadata and make some changes to the image ...