Curved picture frames with C-5050

Hoping one of the experts here can help me out on this!

While at an art museum, I took some pictures of...pictures! Imagine that!
Anyway, upon viewing them on my monitor and printing them out, I noticed
that the picture frames were somewhat warped or curved, instead of being
nice and straight. I assume that this is a known phenomenon of digital
photography, or at least my specific camera (Olympus C-5050).

I'm hoping that someone here might know of an easy to use (and not too
expensive) software tool that might be able to straighten those curved
picture frames.

Can anyone help? Pretty please?

P. Ruzicka

 

Sounds like barrel distortion.. It's not specific to digital photography.
It's a 'thing' with wide angle lenses.. This is one reason why people
will pay over $1000 for a lens

Here's a quick tutorial.. (You can find others if you google using
"barrel distortion" and "photography")..

http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Image_Techniques/Barrel_Distortion_Correction_01.htm

 

Hi...

Not a problem with "digital" photography, but rather
the lens on your camera - most noticed when using
wide angle lenses...

Many, if not all, software photo editing packages
have correction tools in them that will correct
fisheye or barreling or pincushion distortion.

They'll even straighten your picture, and if necessary
correct for perspective distorion.

I use Paint shop pro which does all of the above;
if you'd like there is a 30 day free evaluation
available at their site.

Take care.

Ken

 

Thanks! I added that into my Elements 1.0 and it worked quite nicely!