Today I’m sharing an easy editing tip with you guys…if you edit all of your images in Lightroom, this is something you should be doing to all of your images! Especially if you’re a wedding and/or portrait photographer or you just take lots of images of people…The Lens Corrections tab in Lightroom (it’s in LR 3, 4, and 5) is a tool that makes specific corrections to each image based on the lens used. This is especially important to use when you’re using a wider lens (like a 35 1.4, which I shoot with a lot) because wider lenses have a tendency to distort subjects more, especially when you shoot relatively close to them. To use this too, go to Lens Corrections in the toolbox on the right side of the window, select profile (which opens by default anyway), and then check Enable Profile Corrections. Lightroom will read your image’s metadata to figure out what lens was used to take the image and then apply corrections for that specific lens!

Here’s an example! The first image without profile corrections is more vignetted and distorted. Because of the vignetting, the image itself is darker and just not as flattering (though I mean, Michelle always looks adorable, am I right??)

In the second image, with profile corrections enabled, you can immediately see a difference! There’s less distortion, the vignetting is pretty much non existent, and the image itself is brighter and cleaner. I didn’t make any changes to these two images other than clicking “Enable Profile Corrections”.

I use this tool all the time! When I import a new set of images, I select all of the images I’m working on, check only the profile corrections, and then sync all of them. After that, I go back through and make the rest of my normal edits! Easy as pie. It only takes me a minute to enable profile corrections, but it really does improve the images!

After this simple process is done, I go through and edit the rest of the images the way I normally would! Easy as pie! Hope this small little tip was a little helpful…if not, at least you got to see a sneak peek at Michelle’s images, that are coming to the blog this week! Have a good Monday, guys!