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This is a onestep solution in Lightroom for straightening up photos, and saving the need to take it into Photoshop for a simple edit.
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Topic: Lightroom-Upright
Straighten photos in Lightroom.
When to use
This is a onestep solution in Lightroom for straightening up photos, and saving the need to take it into Photoshop for a simple edit.
Instructions
Auto straightening Photos in Lightroom
- Open in image in Lightroom.
- Go to the develop tab.
- In the lens correction section turn on the ‘Enable Lens Correction’.
- Click the ‘Auto’ button in the upright section of the lens correction settings.
Settings choices
Auto: Best guess option.
Full: Looks for both vertical and horizontal lines.
Level: Looks for primary horizontal lines (ground, horizon, etc).
Vertical: Looks for primary vertical lines (walls, doorways, poles, etc).
- 00:04 Hey, everyone.
- 00:05 Howard Pinsky here taking a look at another new feature coming in
- 00:07 Enlighten 5, upright.
- 00:09 How many times have you taken a picture of a horizon or
- 00:12 a bunch of buildings only to find out that that picture was taken on an angle?
- 00:16 So, you're bring it in to Light Room.
- 00:17 You go into the crop tool.
- 00:18 Grab the straighten tool.
- 00:19 You draw a line across the horizon, and it straightens it out.
- 00:23 Wouldn't it be amazing if Light Room could just do that for you?
- 00:26 Well now, with Light Room 5 with the upright feature,
- 00:29 Light Room has the ability of automatically with one click of a button.
- 00:33 Straighten out your photo, let me show you how this works.
- 00:36 With your image, open and your develop module active head down to
- 00:39 the lens correction section and go ahead and turn on enable profile corrections.
- 00:44 Now, you can select one of the four upright settings.
- 00:46 Im most situations, auto will straighten out your image with pretty high accuracy,
- 00:51 but of course you're free to choose other options as well.
- 00:54 Just so you know what the other options do if you select full it's
- 00:56 gonna apply a full 3D correction to the image.
- 00:59 It's gonna level and fix converging horizontal and vertical lines even if it
- 01:04 involves an extremely strong correction or large rotation.
- 01:08 Now, the level option, well levels the image,
- 01:10 it fixes tilts, similar to an automatic application of the straighten tool.
- 01:15 Or, using the rotate slider.
- 01:16 This will not fix converging horizontal and vertical lines.
- 01:20 And then, you have the vertical option which combines the leveling step
- 01:24 with fixing converging verticals.
- 01:26 So again, the auto binding will usually straighten out your image,
- 01:28 especially if you are working with a horizon or a building, but feel free to
- 01:31 try out the other options if you didn't get the result that you desired.
- 01:34 And, that's a quick look at the new operate feature within Lightroom 5.
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