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Using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter to remove distortion

Using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter to remove distortion

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Using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter to remove distortion

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- Another command that's extremely useful and a relatively new addition to the Adobe Photoshop tool set is the adaptive wide angle command. This makes it very easy to non destructively warp the image and remove distortion caused by shooting at a wide angle. but shooting panoramic photo is essentially shoot wide and it can useful here as well. I'll choose Filter, Adaptive Wide Angle. This allows me to draw and define a horizon. Now you may notice that it tries to curve, so depending upon the points you'll get different results. There we go. By drawing these to the edge of the front of the frame here it actually did a much nicer job on fixing that. So try moving the anchor points around until it finds what it needs to get a more accurate image. Then pay close attention here to these rotations. This allows you to attempt to straighten. If the line turns green, that's an indicator that it feels that it's got good data. Now you could compensate for different types of lenses. A fish eye…

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