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Improving Perspective With Lightroom 5

Improving Perspective With Lightroom 5

We recently often photograph in small historic towns and capture images that show quite a bit of perspective distortions.

Lets have a look how we can improve it in Lightroom 5.

Here is a typical image:

Hamlin

Hamlin

The new Upright tool in Lightroom 5 works often very well to improve the image.

With such an image we enable the three options and give Upright “Auto” a shot. In this sample it works fine:

Upright Tool Automatic Setting

Upright Tool Automatic Setting

Note: If it does not work that well then just set Upright to Off again.

In this case we think there is still a bit too much skew which we correct with Lens Correction/Manual/Vertical set to -6.

We find the perspective now much better. The image needs further fine tuning which we show in our next article.

Summary

While Lightroom 5 Upright does not work always as we would like it helps very well with many images. It is always easy to give Upright a first shot. You should not frame to tight to get the best out of the perspective corrections.

Learn more about Lightroom from our e-books:

Uwe Steinmueller

Sadly, Uwe Steinmueller has passed from this life. His own website, outback photo is no longer online. But as long as TheCameraForum.Com lives on, so does the memory of my good friend Uwe Steinmueller. Rest easy, and know you are missed my friend.

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