i was wondering if there is any way to have that little feature in Lightoom classic, taking anamorphic photos in photoshop limit me to procede with all the changes i want to do directly in lightroom and it's very uncomfortable, any plugins either?
LR doesn't directly support photos taken with anamorphic lenses. You could check out this method for preprocessing photos before importing them into LR:
and be sure to click Like and Follow at the bottom of the first post. That will make it a little more likely that Adobe will consider implementing the feature and you'll be notified when they do. Product developers rarely participate in this forum and won't see your feedback.
please add this feature. Or at least allow the ASPECT slider to go to values like 500 instead of 100.
Best would be to be allowed to input the desqueeze ratio to a box in distortion correction or something. Like 1.3x 1.5x 1.6x 1.8x 2x etc.
Sirui just released a 50mm T2.9 1.6x anamorphic single focus lens, it is only $1500/1500€. It is the first affordable full frame anamorphic lens, and I plan to use it for general photography. Sirui will release more lenses, and probably other manufacturers will follow.
I see the desqueeze function an important feature in future. No one took anamorphic photos when lenses were $40000 and huge or required crazy rigs, dual focus rings or some stuff like that. The Sirui is "cheap" by photographer's standards, available and should work just like a normal lens. The only real problem will be editing the photos and making them look like they are supposed to be.
Please add desqueeze function to Lightroom Classic. Thanks!
You need to tell Adobe by placing your feature request in the proper portion of this Adobe Community. The proper place is the "Ideas" section of the Lightroom Classic forum. Your request placed here will not be read and acted upon by the Lightroom Classic development team.
Yes, that is the way it works, some feature requests don't get implemented. I doubt Adobe has the manpower to implement every single feature request they receive. Lightroom Classic would balloon to unfathomable size and complexity (and possibly slowness) if they were able to implement every feature ever requested.
But it is also true that if enough people request the feature (by placing the request in the "Ideas" section of this forum), then it is more likely that Adobe will actually implement the feature.
This would be a simple fix. There's already an "Aspect" slicer under the Transform tab in the Develop module. It currently stretches the image from -100 to 100, whatever that means. But it doesn't go far enough. Seems like the math exists to make this work easily. Just extend this slider to unstretch more, and change the slider's label to a multiplier so we can enter 1.3x, 1.8x, 2x, etc.
Anamorphic lenses are now more widely available, as is the demand for a "hyrbid" style of shooting where stills and video come as a package.
Currently Lightroom has the necessary feature to allow for easy anamorphic desqueezing, but it is only limited by the range of the slider.
In the past other users have found workarounds, but these are far from ideal.
Recent updates to Lightroom has made it possible to eschew a round trip to photoshop in many more situations than before, and this would allow many who shoot using ananmoprhic lenses to do the same.
Problem with this method is you need to send to photoshop without mantaining the raw format and downgrading the image to DNG, a simple anamorphic function in Lightroom would be much more productive and intuitive then having to send files back and forth.
My post is over a year old and it seems to keep having people interested in the topic, so i wouldn't completely disregard a function like this as a convenient one, for street photography and cinematic shooting in general.
Yes, let us set a squeeze ratio and it would be super awesome with AI support for guessing the correct squeeze factor for lenses with variable squeeze factors, like the new ~1.6x Sirui full frame anamorphic lenses.
I sometimes shoot photos with an ANAMORPHIC lens adapter.
I usually have to use photoshop and change pixels to 2.33 to get the proper wide stretch.
There is ASPECT setting under TRANSFORM in Lightroom classic...but for what? If it could go to 200, then it will work with all anamorphic lenses out there. So the setting is there...just need the capability expanded.
Just ran into this issue today. I rotate my anamorphic lenses 90° then rotate my camera, so that I can desqueeze to a square image format. I was surprised to learn that LRC did not support this desqueeze feature.
The reason why this is so needed in lightroom, is that the workflow for HDR photos doesn't travel well outside of Lightroom, Typically when you shoot camera Raw, you need to maintain all those settings if you want to have a non-destructive workflow.
I really think that having an anamorphic desqueeze as part of ACR would really fix this throughout the entire pipeline. This way, even anamorphic desqueeze is user controllable with just a metadata parameter.
Please also give us the ability to set custom squeeze factors, do not lock it to common sizes (1.33, 1.5, 1.8, 2.0). Many anamorphic lenses have a squeeze factor that changes in the focus range, and sometimes you want to be able to fix that without making close focus having too wide of a desqueeze.
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