It’s the first thing I notice about a photo — wonky lines. I don’t know if I’m alone here, but horizons that aren’t horizontal and square corners that aren’t perpendicular just set off every irritation trigger in my head when I look at a photo. Maybe I’m a little bit
Crooked horizons and distorted buildings can make an otherwise great photo, look amateurish. Luckily, LuminarAI makes it easy to level your horizon and fix perspective distortion with a couple of easy clicks. CompositionAI Open your photo in LuminarAI, switch to the Edit tab and select CompositionAI from the Essentials tools.
Have you ever tried straightening a tilted photo? Typically, you must crop the photo since it leaves empty space. However, Photoshop can fill in those empty spaces realistically. Here’s how to straighten the horizon without cropping. Content-Aware Crop Content-Aware Crop automates filling in empty space after cropping. This can occur
A crooked scene can instantly sour a photograph. Use these methods in Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Classic to help straighten horizons. Many cameras and phone applications have guides and tools to help you level your image and make them straight, but sometimes you’ll still end up with a crooked horizon.
When Capture One released its 15.2.0 update earlier this month, one of the outlined features was an updated Keystone tool. I was excited to try it out, as I found the old version to be somewhat cumbersome, especially when using keystone guides to make adjustments. After spending some time with
OK, I confess, I don’t always use the grid or the level on my camera! I have a tendency to lean to one side too, so when I’m super excited, or tired from a long day of shooting sometimes my horizon line ends up a little crooked — and I
One of my most used tools in Lightroom Classic has to be the cropping tool. While simple at its core, it can have a substantial effect to your photographs. And while we all know how to click and drag each edge to get the crop we want, the tool is
One of my favorite features within Lightroom is the Straightening Tool. I have the exceptional ability to consistently produce images with slightly crooked horizons; my theory is that I am somehow 5 degrees off kilter to the planet. The Straightening Tool fixes this quickly and easily; click, drag, fixed! But,
If your photos are crooked, they can look very distracting If a photo is not straight (because it was shot at a slight angle), it is easy to fix. Here’s a simple recipe for Adobe Photoshop. In Photoshop, select the Ruler Tool (I). Locate a line or surface that you
Adobe has released updates for Lightroom. Versions 6.6 and 2015.6 are now available. Open Lightroom, go to the Help Menu at the top, and choose “Updates…” to initiate your download. If you’re using Creative Cloud, you should do this, too, which will force your Creative Cloud app to make the
One of my pet peeves are crooked photos. You know the kind… where the image seems to be leaning to the left and right. Sure, maybe that’s by design… but often it’s just because of being careless. I’d like to offer you several ways to avoid this amateur mistake. In
Rich Harrington shows you – How to use Crop & Straighten To Make Scanning Easier DISCLAIMER: This post isn’t intended to be definitive – we’re not claiming this is the ONLY way or even the BEST way to accomplish this task in Photoshop, Aperture, iPhoto or any other post-processing program.
