From the course: Photoshop for Video Editors: Core Skills
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Fixing distortion with the Adaptive Wide Angle repair
From the course: Photoshop for Video Editors: Core Skills
Fixing distortion with the Adaptive Wide Angle repair
- Another tool that's built in is the ability to apply adaptive wide angle correction. This is really black magic type stuff and what it's doing is is it's looking at straight lines or lines that should be straight. And allows you to apply dramatic corrections. The key here is not to overdo it but you can do some amazing fixes to your footage if there's unwanted distortion. Let's open up the clip. I'll navigate here to folder 60, Adaptive Wide Angle. And we have both stills and videos. Let's start here with the stills. I've got three photos. What I'm going to do is actually merge those together. So to do this, I'll choose File, Automate, Photo Merge. This allows me to combine the panorama. Let's browse and navigate to that folder. And we'll select these three JPGs and click Open. Photoshop is going to attempt to blend these together. And I'll tell it to apply correction here for geometry. And let's let it do the content…
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