The Lens Corrector Program

[Mr. Pickles]

Proxel, a Sweish company (a Dad and 2 Sons) has a neat product (PS Plug-in) called "The Lens Corrector". It is similar to PTLens, if you know what that is. There is also a Lens profile creator that is stand alone. It might be something you need, or you might just like to have a look see. Here is a blurb from their page:

With this tool you can improve the pictures from any digital camera or camera/lens combination you own. Removing distortion and converting fish eye pictures into rectilinear pictures, with a quality of much more expensive lenses. The main advantages are:

* No loss of quality due to rescaling – the canvas size is changed instead.
* You can correct any camera/lens you own – no restrictions.
* The correction is based upon measurements – no imprecise manual tweaking.
* You can correct distorted fish eye lenses – resulting in outstanding results.

The advantage of this over PTLens is that this will increase the canvas size accordingly, and crop the image (PTLens won't do either). Also, with the included program, you can set your own profiles for your lenses. PTLens has some default profiles, but not for all lenses, and all lenses are not the same.

http://www.proxel.se/index.html

[Roland]

Hi,

I am the dad

Yes - we have just released our Lens Correction tool - and hope to get into the market with that. The main difference to the competition is that you can yourself measure your lenses with the Analyzer program. You take some callibration pictures of straight lines, e.g. door posts. It is quite easy and very accurate. The other difference is that we have paid much attention to making the tool easy to use and give optimal result. Therefore we have automatic adaption of the canvas size. Then you can work very fast and you will get an optimal result as the center of the image is not rescaled and all interesting parts of the image will be within the canvas.

We are situated in beautiful Stockholm in Sweden. If you look at this page http://www.proxel.se/zenitar.html you can see some fish eye pictures of Stockholm converted to super wide angle pictures.

Have fun!

/Roland

[metalstorm]

How much in dollars?

[Roland]

Approx 40, I would think.

[Mr. Pickles]

If you install this to play with it (pretty cool program and better than PTLens, to me anyway), this might be good info, in case you didn't read the FAQ...

Why is the Lens Corrector plug-in found in the File - Automate menu?

Filter plug-ins in Photoshop cannot resize the canvas. So - in order to do be able to do that we go via an automate plug-in

[WineO]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pickles

If you install this to play with it (pretty cool program and better than PTLens, to me anyway), this might be good info, in case you didn't read the FAQ...

Why is the Lens Corrector plug-in found in the File - Automate menu?

Filter plug-ins in Photoshop cannot resize the canvas. So - in order to do be able to do that we go via an automate plug-in

Thanks for the information.

[Latinbob]

Very interesting. I'll have to give that a try with my fisheye.

Bob

[Jose]

Any comments about the lens corrector that comes standard with Photoshop CS2? I also have the ImageAling Pro that works well. They are good to defish images taken but there is always a cost. I don't mind loosing some if the periphery of the images when they are defished but there appears to be a loss of sharpeness around the edges.