Tutorial: Enhancing GoPro Footage With Photoshop's Camera Raw Plug-in

在本教程中, I’ll provide some tips on using Photoshop and Camera Raw to enhance your GoPro footage. I’m a big fan of Camera Raw because of its simple time-saving features. Camera Raw is a program that ships with Adobe Photoshop as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. If you have Photoshop installed, then Camera Raw is already on your system. 这两个项目协同工作.

在这个项目中，我将在这里展示, I’m going to use them to correct some lens distortion, and adjust the tonality and color, of some GoPro footage that you can see in 图1(下面).

图1. This GoPro clip has lens-distortion and color issues. Click the image to see it at full size.

选择GoPro设置

对于本教程, I’ll use footage I recorded using the wideview, 平面色彩轮廓, Protune mode settings on my GoPro Hero 3+. I’d recommend you do the same if you know you’re going to post-process your GoPro footage. These settings will give you most control of tonality and color.

Importing the GoPro Clip and Preparing it for Editing

从Photoshop打开开始, import our GoPro clip by navigating to File > Open, then locating the file in your computer. Once the file is open, you’ll see your video in Photoshop. Right-click your video in the Layers panel, and select the Convert to Smart Object option (下面的图2). This will allow you to make universal adjustments to your video, as opposed to a single frame. Shooting with the GoPro wideview settings often result in a distorted fisheye look, which creates problems in some projects, but might be OK if that's what you want.

图2. Converting the clip to a Smart Object

校正镜头畸变

I’m going to correct that distortion in the Photoshop menu by navigating to Filter > Lens Correction (下面的图3). The Lens Correction dialog box opens.

图3. Choose Filter > Lens Correction to address the fisheye issue.

In the Auto Correction tab of the Lens Correction dialog box you can dial in the make and model of your camera under Search Criteria. I'll select GoPro under the make, and then Hero 3+ Black Edition under model (下面的图4).

图4. Dialing in our camera make and model.

然后按确定, and Photoshop will automatically correct the lens distortion, 根据你的摄像头配置文件. You can turn this feature on and off by selecting the eyeball icon next to lens correction (下面的图5). In this example, we’ll pay close attention to the fence on the right when this feature is enabled. 你可以看到 图6(在图5下面), the program does a great job of correcting the fisheye look there.

图5. Click the eyeball icon to toggle Lens Correction on and off.

图6. The original clip is on top; the image with the fisheye look corrected is on the bottom.