- All lenses have distortion.
Different lenses will add different amounts
of that distortion, but it is something that you can fix.
Many lens-camera combinations have lens profiles
made by Adobe or key users that are available
through the Camera Raw interface.
If you don't find a profile,
you'll actually find a course available
here in the Online Library where I walk you through
how to create your own lens profile,
so be sure to check that course out.
To enable this is pretty simple.
Just go to the Lens Corrections tab
and start on the first tab called Profile.
Enable the Lens Profile Correction.
You'll notice there by toggling it on and off
that a lot of the distortion,
the bending of the horizon, was fixed.
In this case it recognized that I was shooting
on a Sony camera.
This is the Full Frame E Mount camera,
that's what FE means.
It recognized that I was using a 16 to 35 millimeter lens.
Then it has a Profile available from Adobe
for that particular lens.
Now the Distortion and Vignette amounts
are if you want to build it in and do a little more.
You ca also see a Grid there to make it easy.
I notice that my shot was pretty level.
If we follow this here, we can see that the lines match.
Now you can adjust the size of that Grid
to make it easier to line up.
The good news is that it looks to me
like the staircases at least were nice and straight,
so that's good.
Next over is the Color tab,
and this allows you to Remove Chromatic Aberration.
To view this, I recommend dropping it to 100%
and take a look at some of your edges.
When you're at 100% here, this is where you can also
get a good idea of some of that noise.
If it's looking a little strong,
you might want to revisit the Sharpening tab here,
and play with those amounts
and the amount of Noise Reduction
to clean it up a little bit.
That looks pretty good.
Inherently we've gonna have a little bit of noise,
but I think that's pretty solid.
Taking a look around the edges,
we're looking for color fringe.
Hold down the Space Bar and drag,
and this is most common in areas of high contrast,
so along the top edge here.
This is where you can take advantage under Lens Corrections
and look for any greenish tints or purplish tints.
Now this particular edge looks pretty clean.
Again, we were shooting at night
under lower lighting conditions,
but it seems pretty solid,
so you may or may not have Chromatic Aberration.
The Manual tab is where you can go in
and take advantage of things like Upright.
While I love this feature and use it all the time
in my time lapse work,
I do not recommend using Upright at all on your panoramas.
It's gonna get in the way of what you do.
Now that we've applied that to one image,
it's essential to select that image
and then press Command or Control + A to Select All.
Now right click on the hero image and choose Sync Settings.
This allows you to synchronize everything.
Now we're not using any Cropping,
and you probably didn't use the Spot Removal tools,
but if you had any blemishes, those could come in handy.
When you're ready, click the OK button
and the Exposure and Lens Correction settings
will be applied to all of the images
in your panorama series.
In this case we're now ready to move to merging.