Straighten Wonky Angles Like A Pro
In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps to fix skewed lines and wonky angles in your photos using Adobe Lightroom. Whether you're dealing with tilted horizons, distorted buildings, or skewed compositions, the Lightroom transform tool helps you straighten and perfect your images. I’ll show you how the Auto mode of the tool works - and how it can fall short. And if it does… no worries! The Guided mode of the Transform tool gives you the controls to correct any photo and achieve professional-looking results.
The original photo. Captured pointing the camera upward toward the window.
Using the Auto mode of Transform improved the perspective, but not entirely.
Using the Guided mode with the guidelines on the outer bars, both horizontal and vertical, yields the best results.
Pro tip: Older structures like the one in this photo aren’t always perfectly straight. Choose the most important lines to correct and use your guidelines on those. For this photo, I chose to align the iron bars as opposed to the window frame.
Window, Carmel Mission
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Folders and Collections can both look like ways to organize photographs in Lightroom Classic, but they solve different problems. Folders describe where the original photographs physically live. Collections let you bring photographs together without changing that physical organization.
That becomes especially useful when a gallery, project, subject, or other body of work includes photographs stored in many different folders. Collections give you another way to see those photographs together while leaving the originals exactly where they belong.