verticals

Fingers crossed you will take a bit more time than I did in the above example when correcting converging verticals but here is a tutorial on it.

 

I often like the very wide effect a lens can make but for the natural look this tutorial works well. Any comments let me have them...

 

Chris

 

Using Photoshop to get rid of converging verticals

 

When shooting wide angle photos you will often get converging verticals within the picture. You can use the perspective tool within Photoshop to bring them back and have them look nice and straight. The top photo in this montage is converging and the second has been altered to its natural state. To achieve this....

 

1.Open your photo into Photoshop and duplicate the background layer

2.Use the selection tool (short cut key V) and make sure that there is a tick in the box saying show transform controls. This is under the main menu items on the selected tool toolbar

3.Go to the Edit menu select TRANSFORM then select PERSPECTIVE

4.You can now use your mouse to drag out the top corners of the picture to start straightening the converging verticals you will need to use the side and bottom markers too to make sure the photo looks right

5.Take your time with this so they are straight and not tilting over the other way!

6.Once you are happy with the result click on the tick at the top right hand corner of the top tool bar or press ENTER on the keyboard to apply the changes

7.Go to your layers and turn off your BACKGROUND LAYER (press the eye symbol next to it) this will now show only the duplicated layer that you have altered the perspective on. You will now see that you may have to do some cropping

8.You could also clone in some detail if you need to crop too much

9.Once you have done your final tweaks flatten and save your picture

 

Done