Introducing the Adaptive Wide Angle filter

In this movie, I'll show you how to use the Adaptive Wide-Angle filter to remove …the distortion from a scene. In our case, for example, we have a …little bit of barrel distortion, and it's most evident up here in this cornice. …That is up at the top of the building, but you can see the stairs bow outward …down here near the bottom of the photograph as well. …Now Adaptive Wide-Angle is available as a smart filter, so the first thing we want …to do is convert the image into a smart object, by double-clicking on it to bring …up the New Layer dialogue box. I'll call the layer City Hall, and then, …using my Rectangular Marquee tool, I'll right-click inside the image window and …choose Convert to Smart Object. Next, you want to up to the Filter menu …and choose Adaptive Wide-Angle. And with any luck, correction will be set …to auto, where this image is concerned, and that's because Photoshop recognizes …this combination of camera and lens. However, that may not always be the case.…

Now just because it's applying an automatic correction, doesn't mean that …