Lens correction import

I would like to apply lens correction automatically on import. i have a develop preset that does this, and i have it set to apply automatically on import. Here's my question: Should it recognize the lens used for each picture and apply the correction for that specific lens? The reason I ask is that LR doesn't seem to be applying the correction for my newest lens, a Tokina 17-35mm. The lens is listed in the list of lenses, so i'm confused as to why it's not being applied automatically.
Attached is how the lens correction panel looks after importing a photo with this lens.
I searched the forum for this topic and found some old ones but none with the recent version of LR.
what am i doing wrong?

Here's what i was told on another forum by Victoria Brampton (she's incredible) and it worked:
"It just needs a helping hand. Lens metadata isn't very well standardized yet.
Select the profile from the pop-ups, then select Save New Lens Profile Defaults from the Setup pop-up and it should be able to select it automatically in future."

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Same shooting, multiple lenses, how to apply the appropriate lens correction when importing ?

Hello everyone,
How do you handle this:
For each camera, i have a default preset i'm choosing manualy and applying when importing my raw files into lightroom.
I'd like to also add some default lens correction to those presets.
The problem is that multiples lenses (meaning different corrections) may be applied.
How to apply the correct lens correction for each file, in the batch import ?
Thanks for your ideas ...
Aymeric

Update your existing develop presets so that the Lens Corrections are checked (see attached screen shot). Select the develop preset in Import dialog. Lr will automatically apply the appropriate default lens profile to each individual image during import.

How to import lens corrections into Lightroom?

I have downloaded some lens corrections from the Adobe Lens Profile Downloader for lenses that didn't exist in my LR5. I do not know how to import these into LR5.

Hi Billy. See this page, which has instructions: Adobe Lightroom

Applying Lens Corrections Across Entire Import

When I choose an image, one of the first things I always do is apply lens corrections. In 99% of the cases, I don't have to tweak these. I'm shooting with multiple camera bodies, and an import normally happens from hard disk, but it would be wonderful if during the import Lightroom could apply the lens corrections that correspond to the lens/camera body used for each image imported.
A preset seems like it would have to know or assume the camera body/lens combination in advance. That's why I've initially ruled presets out. Do I have this right or would a preset honor the camera/lens combinations from image to image?
Thanks,
Steve

I agree with everything stated here, but use a workflow that may work better for you. I reset my lens profile default settings to 0% Distortion, 100% C Aberration, and 50% Vignetting, and then select 'Lens Profile Corrections' as a part of each camera body's default Develop settings (Develop>Set Default Settings>Update To Current Settings).
Here's my rationale based on processing 1,000s of images in LR shot with numerous single focal length, wide angle zoom and telephoto zoom lenses:
- Distortion is normally only visible in pictures that contain distinct straight line objects. My Canon 17-40mm L lens has fairly high barrel distortion at 17mm on my full frame 5D MKII, but I rarely see it in critical architectural shots. When I do apply 100% distortion correction with this lens at 17mm, the objects near the frame edge and corners become noticeably stretched or elongated. In addition these "corrected areas will be cropped from the picture where they now extend outside the original frame. You will lose part of your picture image and reduce the resolution of the file slightly. In the vast majority of the pictures shot with many different lenses I prefer 0% Distortion correction as my default starting point.
- Chromatic Aberration correction using the LR Profile Correction setting at 100% works very well for all my lenses, with no redeeming visual side effects or need to change it on individual images.
- Vignetting varies greatly from lens to lens and by focal length, but I haven't found a single image that benefits from using a 100% Vignetting setting. You should also be aware that even the very best extreme wide angle lenses (24mm and less on full frame, 15mm and less on 1.6 crop) usually exhibit significant vignetting, and image softness in the corners due to uncorrected astigmatism, coma and field curvature. A 100% Vignetting setting will correct the vignetting at the expense of making the corner softness much more apparent. For all of my lenses and bodies I prefer a default Vignetting setting of 50% as a starting point. I only adjust those images that still have visible vignetting on an "as needed" basis.
Your mileage may vary!

LR 4.3 lens corrections issue (bug?)

Hello,
I'm having trouble with LR 4.3 lens corrections panel, that I didn't have with LR 4.2.
I'm running LR 64bit on Windows 7 Ultimate. Camera is Pentax K5.
This is what the lens corrections panel looks like after import in LR 4.2. I did setup the "Enable Profile Corrections" as default for my camera, so everytime I import photo's this is autmatically checked.
Opening the same photo in the same catalog with LR 4.3 this is what I get:
Notice "Setup" has changed to "Custom" and Lens Profile says None.
Changing Setup to Default again, Make and Model display the correct information, but Profile says None.
Clicking on the Profile arrows gives me the correct lens profile but...
... selecting that profile turns everything back off and setup is changed to Custom again.
Now setting Setup to Default makes no difference! Lens Profile displays None but...
... selecting Auto gives me the right Make and Model!!
And finally, when I leave the image with settings as here above, go the another photo and change the lens corrections, and then go back to the initial image, everything's gone again!!!
As far as I'm concerned, this is a serious bug, unless I'm missing something obvious.
Did anyone have this same problem?
I've downgraded to LR 4.2 again, and everything is back to normal.
Regards,
Peter

No, that's not it either. Lens Corrections appears in the right panel, between "Detail" and "Effects".
It's just that when I click on the "make" under the Lens profile, all I get is Nikon and Sony (and not the other brands I used to see) and under model there is only one lens if I remember correctly...
This is frustrating, and it will be more so if it turns out that I did something silly!!
thanks
christos

Lightroom - Lens Correction - Lens Manufactuer unknown

I have a Canon Rebel XTi and shoot in Raw. I have 3 Tamron lenses - a 10-24, 17-50 and 18-270.
I thought I'd try out the lens correction profile for my 10-24 for a few pics, but when invoking the option, it was unable to determine the len manufacturer. Though as soon as I selected 'Tamron' it then knew which lens I was using.
Should my metadata have capture the lens manufactuer?
Is there something I am missing?
Given they are all Tamron - can I set some sort of default so I don't have to select Tamron for every picture?
Thanks!

If you cannot get the right lens profile assigned using the Set Default method described in earlier posts (for example, if two different lenses that you use are identified exactly the same by LR's reading of the image metadata, so that it cannot distinguish them automatically) then it can be helpful to record the manual assignment of a given lens profile, into a Develop preset for easier application to images in the future.
To reiterate, it is enough that Lr's lens detection operates as a unique identifier, that can cause the particular correction profile to be used which you have stipulated; the actual lens description does not strictly need to be correct for the lens, in order for this to happen automatically, per image, at import or subsequently.
So a general Develop preset or default which turns on lens corrections just needs to activate the profile checkbox, and in the Profile: selector, show "Default". Then LR uses whatever it has been told is the right default for each Lens ID encountered, which may derive from its originally installed list, or else from what the user has later assigned.
A specific preset applying a particular lens profile for cases where auto detection doesn't work, will instead apply this explicitly, set as "Manual".
For example, I use some older, pre-digital Pentax lenses which have no ID chip, and report to LR as just "A series lens" or else "K or M lens" - because all the camera can do, is detect whether or not these older lenses have an auto aperture. So with those, I can use LR to filter them down by focal length (prime lenses), to help me rapidly apply a Develop preset which picks out the correct profile for each individual lens. The camera asks me for the focal length whenver it detects a legacy-mount lens has been fitted, so that it can correctly apply shake reduction, so that info is at least recorded against each image. But: most of the time, I use only one A series lens and only one M series lens, so I have LR set to "presume" the A/28 profile for the former, and the M/135 profile for the latter, unless told otherwise. I only have to intervene as described in the exceptional case, when I know I have used some other lens sharing the same class of legacy mount.
The same principles apply when third-party lens makers use ambiguous Lens IDs even for modern chipped lenses, where these codes may span across multiple, different lens models indiscriminately.
RP

LX7 Lens Correction in LR4

I see that my Lumix LX-7 is supported by LR 4.3 (Camera Raw 7.3), but when in the Lens Correction portion of the Develop module, I can't find any reference to Panasonic or Lumix. Leica lenses are listed, but I can't find any that are equivalent to the LX-7's lens.
Can you suggest which Leica lens I should choose?
Is there a reason that the lens is not automatically selected the same way my other lenses (Canon, Sigma, Tokina) are for my 7-D?

I was running into the same issue with the correct lens not being shown. I have a Nikon D7000 with a Sigma 17-50 F2.8 lens. When I went into the Lens Corrction Panel my specific model wasn't showing up. Normally when I import my photos I "Copy to DNG" to keep the files organized better. So I imported a photo as a .NEF and what do you know, the lens auto detected without any issues. From this I found a workaround so I can keep using the .DNG format and have the correct lens adjustments.
*** Work Around ***
Import a photo as a RAW .NEF (or whatever your camera creates)
Open the "Lens Correction" in the Develop Panel and ensure the lens you use is selected
Save the settings as a "User Preset" under the Develop Panel
Open the Import Window and select "Apply During Import"
Select the "User Preset" that was created
Select "Copy to DNG" as the import type
Once the preset has been set on import it will apply the setting and then convert the file to a .DNG with the settings applied. So at that point if you go to the Develop Panel and choose Lens Correction, the correct lens will show up in the list with it's adjustments.

Erratic behaviour of Manual Lens Correction in Develop Module

64 bit Windows 7
Sometimes - not always - using the manual lens correction, with Constrain Crop activated, leads to the image jumping around very quickly and erractically and it being impossible to achieve fine control using the mouse: tiny movements of the slider by dragging with the mouse result in large jerky movements of the image. I have only used this for correcting converging verticals and cannot comment on the other adjustments.
Moreover, on a subsequent crop when this has happened, it may be impossible to crop as you would like using the crop tool - the top edge of the image jumps above the intended crop outline. The only way to get the crop you want when this happens is to adjust each edge individually, rather than by dragging the corner.
Apologies if I have not explained this well. In short, it seems to be a bug whereby proper mouse control of the lens correction is lost. I often correct converging verticals in buildings and have never seem the same behaviour in version 3. I cannot always replicate it in version 4, but it happens a lot.
Hope this feedback helps. I cannot see that it has been reported elsewhere in this forum.

Hmmm, this is going to be tricky. I just tried to replicate it on two photos on which I know I had the problem, by going back to the original import setting, but both behaved fine this time! Both, as it happens, were portait format, having been rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise from the original. I cannot recall, I am afraid, whether or not other ones with which I had an issue had been rotated first. I will try to replicate and keep more detailed notes. In at least these two instances, I had not applied a lens correction profile first. The vertical transformation slider would be set to somewhere between -25 to -35.
Having played about with this for a while now without full replication, I have one idea which may or may not be correct. When I reset the Develop settings and started on the Lens Corrections first, absolutely nothing untoward happened. Now I have gone back and done a number of other adjustments first (as I would often do, before correcting the perspective). In this case, the vertical adjustment slider seems more sensitive to small mouse movements - definitely discernible, but not nearly as bad as the examples I have seen previously when I was not looking for them, nor is there yet any sign of the cropping problem. Maybe the effect becomes more pronounced as the number of edits accumulates before applying the manual Lens Corrections. If this is correct, I do not know whther the effect is cumulative across all edits to all images (as if memory is not being released - but that should not be a problem, since I have 12GB of RAM and nothing else running) or whether it is a per image phenomenon, since I have only recently re-opened Lightroom. You will know better than I whether this is a possiblity, but it is just a thought as I play with this without so far being able fully to replicate the issue. I have some work to do on a number of images and if I get time, I will come back to these images to see if the problem manifests itself more clearly after a larger number of edits across multiple images in a single session without closing Lightroom.
I am very sorry this is so vague and quite speculative. I hope I will be able to give you more accurate feedback later.

Lens Corrections in Lightroom 4

Can 'Enable Profile Corrections' in Lens Corrections be checked as a default?

Yep, no problem.
Select a photo in Develop module.
It’s a good idea to press Reset, so that you only change the defaults that you intend to.
Check the Enable Lens Corrections, and any other settings you want as default.
Go to Develop menu > Set Default Settings.
Press Update to Current Settings.
Repeat with a sample photo from each camera you use (and raw and JPEG, if you shoot both formats)
That will then apply to any new photos (of that format) you import from that camera, and any photos that you hit Reset.

Lightroom 5 and Lens Correction-issue

Hi, sometimes in LR4 I used the lens correction. Most pictures nowadays I take with an old NIkon 24-85:2.8-4 lens. When I tick lens correction and choose as manufacturer Nikon it automatically gave me the Nikon 24-85:3.5-4.5 (as the 2.8-4-version is not present), but usable. In LR5 it always gives me a Nikon Coolpix-lens and I have to manually change it. Quite annoying.

LR has not automatically assigned that lens profile, since it does not exactly correspond.
But it's no biggie...after manually selecting a particular lens profile, you can set that as a user default to be used in future (for any other pictures that report the same lens data as the current active image does).
It's an option in the drop-down menu within the lens profile panel.
Your LR default settings or import preset affecting these future imported images, will just need to ensure that Profile is active, and that the selection of profile is set to Default (instead of Manual) within this same drop-down menu.
Hereafter, LR will adopt whatever profile is the factory default or (as an override) is the user selected default, or (failing both) no profile at all, for each image imported.

How do I save a profile in Lens Correction in Photoshop

I am using Photoshop CS6 on a PC running Win7. In the previous version I was able to save a profile in the Lens Correction panel. In this version I can find my camera and my lens but it won't let me save the profile. I only real estate and straight verticals are very important.

If your not saving a profile you found online you can save a preset from the custom tab:
Are you not able to save a profile from online locally if that's what your asking?

PS CS2 lens correction causes "Maximize Compatibility" issue in LR

Question: why does PS CS2/3 convert the layer "Background" to "Layer 0"?
This is the problem (and solution):
I encountered the widely discussed "Maximize Compatiblity" issue with a bunch of PSD files (slide scans) that contained only one layer. Puzzled as I was that the layer thing apparently could not cause the problem, I reopened some of those files in PS CS3 and I noticed that each of them had had a lens correction. Just to make sure I was on the right track I applied a lens correction to a file that had been already imported into LR successfully and used the SaveAs command and unchecked the Maximize Compatibility option. The new file could not be imported into LR. So no more lens corrections? - I thought.
A closer look on the troublesome files made me learn the (only) layer had been renamed from "Background" to "Layer 0" after the lens correction was made. I used the "Flatten Image" command and this turned it back into "Background". After this, the file could be imported into LR without a problem.
I can now apply this trick to all troublesome files that have had lens corrections and thus avoid the huge increase in file size (130MB is a lot already).
Now I write this for those of you who have the same problem and are still puzzled (to help out) but I also would like to have some insight into why PS CS2/3 lens corrections mess with the layers.
Thanks.

>My conclusion would be that LR can only import PSD files that meet the following requirements:
>1. must contain only one layer
>2. that layer must be called "Background"
Your conclusion is only partially correct.
Lightroom will import multi-layered PSD files that have been saved with the preference for "Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility" set to On. This is clearly stated in the Release Notes and Help documents:
>Photoshop format (PSD)
>Photoshop format (PSD) is the standard Photoshop file format. To import and work with a multi-layered PSD file in Lightroom, the file must have been saved in Photoshop with the Maximize PSD and PSB File Compatibility preference turned on. Youll find the option in the Photoshop file handling preferences. Lightroom saves PSD files with a bit depth or 8 bits or 16 bits per channel.
As to the original point -
PS CS2 lens correction causes "Maximize Compatibility" issue in LR.
Photoshop renaming Background Layer to Layer 0 is a Photoshop issue, not Lightroom. When it occurs the files effectively becomes a multi-layered file, even if there is only one layer (i.e layer 0). Why using the Lens Correction filter causes the background layer to be renamed is currently unclear, but I have raised it in the "appropriate" place. In the meantime, I recommend that you set the Maximise Compatibility preference to
Always. Doing so will save non layered files as normal and multi-layered will have the
necessary* composite preview. You can continue to use the flatten command to fix the errant files.
*Enabling the Maximise Compatibility preference ensures that Photoshop creates a composite preview of multi-layered images. It is intended to enable applications that can't read layers to preview the images. Lightroom cannot read multi-layered files, therefore the composite preview MUST be present in such files.
>Has anyone noticed different behaviour with the Lr v2 beta? I'd hate to double the size of all my multilayer PSDs just so they can load into Lr(?)
Lr 2.0 will function as per Lr1.x; i.e. not using Maximize Compatibility when saving multi-layered files will mean that they are not compatible with Lr2.0.

How to apply lens correction profile to multiple images at once?

I have a quick newbie question and I couldn't find an answer in a brief search that I did. Is it possible to apply lens correction profile automatically to multiple images at once? For my RAW images, LR automatically detects the lens and applies the correction profile for an image if I manually click on "Enable lens correction" option under Develop module (in the right pane where adjustments are made). However, I would like to do this to multiple images all at once.
Thanks,
Osho

Be careful using develop setting synchronization for lens profile across mutiple images! This allows applying an incorrect profile (i.e. Canon 17-40mm profile with synchronization to images shot with multiple lenses) First use the 'filter' tool to make sure you select images shot with only one (1) lens type. Then follow one of the procedures here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/WS0E6E6886-E223-4050-B6E0-A97B5B62EF7D.htm l
You can also change the "default" develop settings with 'Lens Profile' option checked and then save as the "new default" setting. LR will then "automatically" apply lens profile correction on import of new images.

Lens correction filter doest work after hardware change

Hello,
Since I reinstalled my computer from scratch after a hardware change (went from AMD GPU to an NVIDIA GPU) lens correction filter doesn't work anymore.
I can open the tool, do the corrections but when I pusch apply, the tool is closed but the corrections are not applied to the picture in the editor screen.
No layer is added.
When I close PSE multiple temp files are left in the root directory of my secundary drives.
This happened with PSE 7 so I bougth PSE 9, de-installed PSE 7 and installed PSE 9. Guess what: same problem, no corrections applied.
Is this Nvidia related since everything worked nice in PSE 7 with amd catalyst drivers ?
I'm running Vista32 sp2, with latest directx and latest nvidia geforce drivers.
mda97

1) The problem with the Delete Cropped Pixels option is that it essentially eliminates the nicest functionality of the new crop tool.....My suggestion to Adobe would be to enable some way of having the screen view imported into the lens correction filter but leaving the cropped information intact for future adjustments once the image was returned to the main PS window....
2) The Camera RAW preferences setting adjustment was what I needed, thank you!
3) The problem with the saving to PSD option, is that even when I do NOT have layers, it seems to default to saving as PSD. Essentially, any adustment I make, except the most basic, even if I do not have any layers as a result, gets interpreted as needing to be saved as a PSD. This is categorically different than in all prior editions of Photoshop. (For instance, whenever I worked on JPGs and I would save a file on older versions, it would simply default to JPG unless I actually had visible layers in the layers window. On this one, if I do anything like content-aware fill, or use the patch tool or healing brushes, it then saves to PSD by default, even though there are NO visible layers that need flattening. It seems as if the program is interpreting those kinds of adjustments internally as layers and selecting PSD as the necessary file type to save to as a result.)
Thanks for your help; if you have any other suggestions for work arounds for the third problem, I would greatly appreciate them.
-Janet

LR4 Beta...another problem with using Lens Correction

Not sure if it's me or the beta. I'm trying to do a lens correction on a file that was edited in CS5. The photos were taken in 2009/10. They are importing as Process 2012.
I'm using the Lens Correction in manual. About 15 seconds after I start using the sliders, my LR stops working and I have to close the program (white outs the screen with the note saying the program has to be closed).
I do know there can be problems with a beat so I wanted to post this problem in case it is a bug in the system.

I have the same probem if I try to push the scale slider down below about 87%. It is quite annoying when it keeps happening on the same photo. It's not something I use a lot but it can be necessary with tall buildings when the correction pushes the top out of the frame.
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