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Straighten your subject with geometry

Straighten your subject with geometry - Lightroom Tutorial

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Straighten your subject with geometry

- [Instructor] Geometry is great for straightening architectural images. We expect a building's vertical and horizontal lines to be aligned, but capturing perfectly perpendicular or level lines is challenging, even for experienced photographers. When a building a photographed from ground level with the camera aimed up, a perspective effected called keystoning happens. We see here, in this iPhone photo, the keystoning of the vertical lines converging in towards the top of the frame. Fixing these kinds of alignment issues is easy with Lightroom's geometry. Geometry's found at the bottom of the edit panel. You can toggle this open here or jump to it with a Command or Control + Six. It doesn't look like there's a lot here, but if you look at where it says upright off, there's some presets in here, including auto. I always start with auto and see what happens. And on this image, auto straightened this image up in one…

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