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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

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

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

An Icelandic church edited in Exposure X

March 31, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

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

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

DxO ViewPoint 3 review

November 27, 2016 by Life after Photoshop

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

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

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

Fixing perspective is easy with Capture One Pro’s Keystone Vertical tool

July 31, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Capture One Keystone Vertical tool

You can fix converging verticals and other perspective problems in many programs, including Lightroom and DxO Optics Pro, but Capture One Pro 7 has what I think is the most easiest and most accurate tool of all. The problem with fixing keystoning is that you need to be extremely accurate in aligning the tool’s marker […]

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Filed Under: Capture One, Tutorials

Lightroom 5’s new Upright tool

July 12, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom 5 Upright tool

Lightroom looks and feels a lot like Lightroom 4, but there are some key new features. One of these is the new Upright tool, which can automatically correct perspective problems in shots of buildings and other rectangular objects. Note: In the latest versions of Lightroom, the Upright tools are now found in the Geometry panel. […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials

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