Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

IMPROVE THE FIELD OF VIEW with the Adaptive Wide
Angle filter
The Lens Correction filter in the previous task is used
to correct lens aberrations and geometric distortion
and is applied globally to images. However, using the
Lens Correction filter to correct the distortion in a
photo taken with a fisheye or a very large field-ofview
lens may not always give a visually pleasing
result. The Adaptive Wide Angle Correction filter, new
in Photoshop CS6, is intended to fix visual distortion
on areas near an edge or the bending of straight lines
characteristic of photos taken with wide-angle lenses
and fisheye lenses.
The filter reads the metadata from the photo file to
deduce the focal length and crop factor. You can
apply an auto wide-angle lens correction if the filter
can find a profile for the specific camera and lens
combination used to take the photo. You can also
select a lens type, perspective, or fisheye, and specify
which lines should be straight by adding both
horizontal and vertical constraints. You can continue
to adjust the photo until the scene more closely
reflects a natural view, and then crop it as necessary
in Photoshop.
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1 Open a photo taken with a
rectilinear wide-angle lens or a
fisheye lens.
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2 Click Filter.
3 Click Adaptive Wide Angle.
The Adaptive Wide Angle dialog
box appears.
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4 Click the Correction drop-down
menu to select a correction
model, Perspective in this
example.
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