From the course: Lightroom CC: Tips and Quick Fixes
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How do I straighten a crooked photo? - Lightroom Tutorial
From the course: Lightroom CC: Tips and Quick Fixes
How do I straighten a crooked photo?
- Oftentimes when you take a picture, distortion can be introduced. Maybe it's because the camera was a little bit low, or a higher angle. And straight lines are suddenly skewed. This is pretty easy to fix using Lightroom CC. I've selected album two. Let's make sure the first photo is selected, and then go ahead and click on the edit module. Now, my suggestion is it's time to straighten this image. There's a couple ways to do it. Earlier you learned about using the crop tool, and you could choose to straighten by clicking auto. And this picked up that there was a slight distortion to the image of about .44 degrees. So less than a full degree of straightening. Let's go ahead and put that back. There we go. And you see that it did indeed make a small fix. Or, under the edit module here, I can go ahead and apply a few more adjustments. First, I'm going to enable lens correction from the optics section, which helps remove some of the curvature. Then, from the geometry section in upright…
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