How-to Make A Custom Lens Profile Fast & Easy In Corel AfterShot Pro

Hey there Photo Tribe!

From lens copy to lens copy no two are exactly alike. Thus a bit of lens distortion correction above and beyond the standard profile can help you create the best photos possible.

In this video I answer your question: How to make a custom lens profile from within Corel's Aftershot Pro software. I look at 1st order, 2nd order and 3rd order distortion correction while making the process quick and easy for anyone to do.

This technique can also be used to make amazing artistic lens distortion right from within your RAW photo files.

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[alangauld]

Just found this channel although I've been using Aftershot for nearly 10 years! The custom lens correction sliders always baffled me - it was just "poke and hope" till I found a setting that worked. I shoot a lot with old film lenses on my Sony A7ii so being able to create custom profiles is a huge win for me. Many thanks.

[jcristina]

Hey there Photo Tribe.. I sincerely hope you enjoy this VLOG. Thank you so very much for all of your interaction and topic suggestions you continue to provide. It's truly appreciate!!

[annweed]

Thanks I am just learning AfterShot and your videos have been a great help

[ThePhobicFlyer]

You are a life saver!! I couldn't get my ZV-E10 to work with ASP3 but I hacked the A6600 info.xml file and it now works a treat and installed the camera profile. Even though I it shows the correct lenses and camera when I click on the "Enable Lens correction" it does nothing. If I manually edit the lens and save then it works. It's as though the database has no data?

[erikrdsand]

I have bougth AfterShot and love your "lessons". :-)

[joshuameadows]

Thanks for sharing this. It will help greatly with creating profiles for my lenses that don't already have one. Aftershot Pro 3 is my favorite development software. (Although I'm giving on1 PhotoRAW a good effort).

[Homemade_amateur_birder]

Hello, i tried to do the lens profile thing since the lens profile from the exif file didn't do a thing.
Now do you need to make for every mm in your zoom range (18-105/f4 emount sony lens with ILCE-5000) an appart profile (87profiles)?
Since the profile i made for 105mm only works for 105 shots ... Hopefully i do something wrong.

[brianlink]

Can't we just take a photo of the monitor with the grid on full screen rather then printing it?

[Oggiwara]

When I tested the Corel AfterShot Pro3 Trial recently, it did not recognize my Sigma-24-105 mm f/4 Art, 50 mm f/1, 4 Art, Tamron AF SP 70-200/2, 8 Di VC USD or Canon EF 24-70mm f/4 L IS USM lenses. I use those lenses on my Canon 6D and 5Ds very often. That was why I did not buy the software. And Corel does not answer either.
Do you know anything about that issue?

[jamesbartoschsr.]

I went in and found the grid and hit "Free" it downloaded it then told me to restart Corel and I did. When I went back to Grid it wouldn't work? Any suggestions?

[esthercano]

how do you turn off Grid before exporting photos?