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Tag: 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. DxO made it a practical science and now Lightroom and Capture One Pro offer built in perspective correction too – and other programs 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.

 

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DxO ViewPoint 3 review

November 27, 2016August 22, 2017 Rod Lawton

DxO ViewPoint 3 is the latest version of DxO’s perspective and distortion correction program. It works as a standalone application, as a plug-in for Lightroom, Photoshop and Elements and as a fully-integrated panel within DxO Optics Pro, DxO’s flagship optical correction … Continue reading DxO ViewPoint 3 review

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How to fix glare with perspective correction

September 10, 2016September 23, 2017 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. … Continue reading How to fix glare with perspective correction

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Capture One horizontal keystone correction

Capture One keystone correction tips

November 20, 2013August 20, 2017 Rod Lawton

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 … Continue reading Capture One keystone correction tips

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How to use the DxO Force Parallel tool

October 16, 2013August 20, 2017 Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro’s speciality is optical corrections. It does this using a combination of automatic lens corrections and manual perspective adjustment options, including the DxO Force Parallel tool. DxO Optics Pro can identify the lens and camera used to take … Continue reading How to use the DxO Force Parallel tool

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DxO Force Rectangle tool

Straighten up your shots with the DxO Force Rectangle tool

September 11, 2013August 26, 2017 Rod Lawton

DxO Optics Pro uses custom-made lens correction profiles to fix the distortion issues inherent in nearly all lenses, but it goes further than that – it can also correct the perspective distortion created when you photograph a rectangular object at … Continue reading Straighten up your shots with the DxO Force Rectangle tool

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Capture One Keystone Vertical tool

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

July 31, 2013August 20, 2017 Rod Lawton

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

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Lightroom 5 Upright tool

Lightroom 5’s new Upright tool

July 12, 2013August 20, 2017 Rod Lawton

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. The first … Continue reading Lightroom 5’s new Upright tool

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