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Perspective correction

If you do a lot of travel or architectural photography you'll know all about the problems of perspective. The most common issue is converging verticals, or keystone distortion, where you had to tilt the camera upwards to get the whole of the subject in the frame, and this has made the sides of the subject lean inwards.

But smaller problems can be just as annoying, such as a slight horizontal skew that leaves things you know should be horizontal on a slant. Or a perfectly rectangular facade that's actually not quite rectangular because you couldn't shoot it from dead opposite.

All of these things can be fixed with digital perspective correction tools. Lightroom and Capture One Pro offer built in perspective correction tools – and other programs like Luminar, Exposure X and ON1 Photo RAW can do the same.

Note that you should only carry out perspective correction after you've applied lens corrections to fix any lens distortion. Any trace of barrel or pincushion distortion makes it impossible to judge if a line or object is properly horizontal or vertical.

Perspective correction might seem like a relatively technical and unimportant job, but it can make a big difference to pictures of landmarks and buildings.

Perspective correction explained

September 13, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Perspective correction is not necessary for most photos, but there are times when it will make the difference between an image that looks professional and one that just looks amateurish.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Perspective correction

Perspective Efex review

June 4, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 4.5 stars Perspective Efex is a really nice addition to the DxO Nik Collection 3. It offers geometric perspective, distortion and tilt-shift corrections in a simple, user-friendly interface.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Lens corrections, Miniature effect, Nik Collection, Perspective correction, Perspective Efex, Tilt shift, Volume deformation or anamorphosis

Lightroom CC Geometry panel explained

April 12, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom comes in two versions. Lightroom Classic CC, the ‘desktop’ version, is probably the most popular, especially amongst long-term Lightroom users, but Lightroom CC has a lot to commend it. On the downside, it means paying extra for Adobe Creative Cloud storage – the 20GB with the regular Photography Plan is not enough, and the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Constrain Crop, Geometry (Lightroom), Guided Upright (Lightroom), Lightroom CC, Perspective correction, Transform, Upright tool (Lightroom)

An Icelandic church edited in Exposure X

March 31, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Exposure X

This shot of an Icelandic church looked nice enough in color but I thought it had a bit more potential as a black and white image – though there were a few issues I wanted to sort out first. For this project I used Exposure X. The same tools exist in other programs, but I […]

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, Tutorials Tagged With: Black and white, Exposure X, Linear gradient, LUTs, Masks, Perspective correction, Vignette

BAN adjustments in Lightroom (BAN – Basic And Necessary!)

March 25, 2018 by Rod Lawton

BAN adjustments in Lightroom

There are a handful of basic tweaks you just know you’re going to want to apply to each image.

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Camera calibration, Lens corrections, Lightroom, Perspective correction, Spot removal, Transform

DxO ViewPoint 3 review

November 27, 2016 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4 stars DxO ViewPoint 3 is a very effective and useful add-on for DxO PhotoLab but perhaps less useful these days as a plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop, given that these have pretty good perspective correction tools of their own. ViewPoint also faces competition from the new and very similar Perspective Efex plug in that’s part of the DxO Nik Collection 3.

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Aberrations, Distortion correction, DxO ViewPoint, Lens corrections, Perspective correction, Volume deformation or anamorphosis

How to fix glare with perspective correction

September 10, 2016 by Rod Lawton

Here’s an interesting little problem you often get when photographing paintings or other pictures. You get the camera perfectly perpendicular to the picture, only to find you’ve got horrible glare from the surface of the picture, completely ruining the shot. So here’s the problem. I didn’t have a polarising filter with me, which might have […]

Filed Under: Featured, Tutorials Tagged With: Distortion correction, Lightroom, Perspective correction

Capture One keystone correction tips

November 20, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Capture One horizontal keystone correction

Keystone correction is usually used to fix converging verticals in architectural shots – that’s the most obvious use for the Capture One keystone correction tools – but this vertical keystone correction isn’t the only kind you’ll need. Keystone distortion happens when you tilt the camera relative to your subject, and this can mean horizontal tilt […]

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Filed Under: Capture One, Tutorials Tagged With: Capture One, Distortion correction, Lens corrections, Perspective correction

How to use the DxO Force Parallel tool

October 16, 2013 by Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro’s speciality is optical corrections. It does this using a combination of automatic lens corrections and manual perspective adjustment options, including the DxO Force Parallel tool. DxO Optics Pro can identify the lens and camera used to take a picture from the shooting (EXIF) information embedded in the image by the camera, and […]

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Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: DxO Optics Pro, Perspective correction

Straighten up your shots with the DxO Force Rectangle tool

September 11, 2013 by Rod Lawton

DxO Force Rectangle tool

DxO Optics Pro uses custom-made lens correction profiles to fix the distortion issues inherent in nearly all lenses, but it goes further than that – it can also correct the perspective distortion created when you photograph a rectangular object at a slight angle, thanks to the DxO Force Rectangle tool . You often don’t notice […]

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Filed Under: Tutorials Tagged With: DxO ViewPoint, Lens corrections, Perspective correction

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