Lens Distortion Correction

Lens distortion correction can be achieved using PT Lens. It is available for both the PC and the Mac. I often forget about these little tools that make a huge difference in image quality. If you shoot real estate or architecture, you need PT Lens to remove bowed lines that should be straight.

I often get asked how I deal with distortion typical with wide angle lenses and PT Lens is something I’ve been using since 2007 when I was googling around for lens distortion correction solutions. That and I tend to try and get my tri-pod to about the mid-point of the room. Obviously a tilt and shift lens is ideal to not have to deal with this in post, but on capture.

Rather than grab photos from their site and post them here, you should use their interactive options to see before and after photos to get an idea of how it corrects lens distortion.

The link to PT Lens main web site HERE

From their navigation on the left, choose “Examples” to then view before and after photos. I’d link it directly, but I think they are using frames on their site and I didn’t see a different URL.

And an alternative for Mac users…

Back in 2007, there was no Mac solution so I used an alternative developers plugin that uses the PT Lens database.  Word of advice, if you need to use this other plugin (linked below) instead of PT Lens (such as if you are still running 10.4), make sure you SAVE before you launch the filter in Photoshop because it has caused PS to crash on me before (normally fast clicking through the dialogs has caused crashes).

Kekus Lens Fix