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Fixing perspective with Upright

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Fixing perspective with Upright

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- [Instructor] Sometimes and image may appear to be unlevel but also have perspective issues caused by an angle, such as shooting from a lower or higher angle. In this case, there's many ways to fix it. Now, you previously learned about the crop tool, and that's a fine way to try to autocrop and level the image. But it may not get you all the way there. Instead, let's go back to the edit tool here and scroll to the bottom under the geometry section. Here, you'll find a control called Upright. This allows you to evaluate the image and attempt to fix it. Notice auto did a nice job of adjusting the image. We can also choose level to attempt to get an even image. And other methods. Each of these is going to try to force the alignment. Full is the most aggressive, and in this case, leads to a lot of distortion. But it's amazing how it did fix the perspective here on all the faces of these buildings, albeit a little bit too…

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