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Removing perspective distortion using Camera Raw - Photoshop Tutorial

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Removing perspective distortion using Camera Raw

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- [Instructor] There are several ways to correct perspective in Photoshop, but I find that using Camera Raw as a filter is often the quickest and most accurate way to make this type of edit. Now, it's important to note, it's always better to correct perspective as early as you can in your workflow. So if you're working with RAW files, it's better to select them in Bridge, and choose open in Camera Raw and use the geometry panel to correct the perspective. Or if you're in Lightroom or Lightroom Classic, you'll want to use the edit stack or the Develop module. However, it could be that the original is a TIFF file, or maybe you've already integrated the layer into a multi-image composite or maybe you actually want to add a distortion to an image. Now, because I want to apply this correction non-destructively, I'm going to right-click on the background and convert this to a Smart Object. Then I'll choose the Filter menu and select Camera Raw Filter. In the Camera Raw dialogue, I'm going to use the Geometry panel. There's several different automatic upright modes. We can click on Auto or Level or Vertical or Full. But in this case, I'm not quite getting the control I want, so I'll select the last option, which is the Guided Upright. I'll start here at the top, and you'll notice that I have enabled the Loop option so that I can be more accurate with the drawing of the guide without having to zoom in. If the Loop isn't enabled, you can enable it in the Geometry panel. So I'll just start there at the base of that board and come over to the right-hand side. Then I'm going to come down the right side of the window here. Of course, this is assuming that this window is actually straight, I'll bring that across and then come down from the top left. Alright, that's looking good. There are a number of additional options. I mean, we could have zoomed in or we could add a grid over the top, and we can change the grid size as well as the grid opacity. Under the Manual Transformations, we can also make vertical and horizontal transformations. We can rotate the image. We can also change the aspect. And this can be very convenient, especially if there's a person or an animal in your image because, sometimes, making a large change to your geometry can really distort people. It can also be helpful if you're trying to fit an image into a different aspect ratio. Say, for example, you need to post it online both as a square image as well as two by three. All right, you can scale the image up if you need to, or you can offset on the X or Y axis. This can be helpful to gain additional information that might have been transformed off of the canvas area. All right, for now, I will go ahead and apply that, and because the layer was a Smart Object, when we apply the filter, it becomes a Smart Filter. If we ever want to edit the parameters of the filter, we can double-click on the name of the filter and that would bring back up the Camera Raw dialogue. Alright, at this point, I would either want to crop the image or just select the transparent areas and use generative fill in order to fill in those areas with AI-generated content. So the next time you need to change the perspective of an image in Photoshop, be sure to convert the layer to a Smart Object so that you can apply Camera Raw as a filter non-destructively.

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