Correct distorted perspective in photos

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Learn how to correct tilted or skewed perspectives using Upright modes and Transform controls, and copy or synchronize perspective corrections across photos in Lightroom Classic.

About Upright perspective correction

Using an incorrect lens or holding a shaky camera can cause the perspective of photographs to be tilted or skewed. These types of distortions are particularly evident in photographs that contain vertical lines or geometric shapes. With the Upright option in the Transform panel, you can easily correct those photos that have a distorted vertical or horizontal perspective.

Before you begin

Apply lens correction profiles for your camera and lens combination before you correct perspective using the Upright feature. Applying the lens correction profile first results in better image analysis for upright correction.

Use Upright modes to correct lens distortion

In the Develop module, navigate to the Lens Corrections panel. In the Basic tab, select the Enable Profile Corrections option.

In the Transform panel,  select any of the Upright options:

  • Level: Corrects horizontal distortions.
  • Vertical: Corrects vertical distortions.
  • Auto: Corrects both vertical and horizontal distortions while balancing the overall image, and preserving as much of the original image as possible.
  • Full: Combination of full Level, Vertical, and Auto perspective corrections.
  • Guided: Allows you to draw two or more guides on your photo to customize perspective correction.

While trying the Upright modes, if you select or clear Enable Profile Corrections, select Update in the upper-right corner of the Transform panel.

Lightroom Classic displays an outdoor photo of two people, with the Transform panel highlighted to show Upright and manual perspective controls.
Use the Transform panel in Lightroom Classic to correct perspective distortion.

Tip

Applying an Upright mode resets the crop and any previously applied Transform settings. To preserve these settings, press and hold Option (macOS) or Alt (Windows) while selecting an Upright mode.

To draw the guides directly on your photo, select the Guided Upright tool icon in the upper-left corner of the Transform panel. Once you have drawn at least two guides, the photo transforms in real time. 

Once you select the Upright option, use the Transform sliders to adjust the following:

  • Projection: Fix edge and corner stretching in wide-angle group shots and selfies.
  • Vertical: Adjust the vertical perspective, such as straightening or tilting a vertical line.
  • Horizontal: Adjust the horizontal lines.
  • Rotate: Rotate the photo clockwise or anticlockwise.
  • Aspect: Define the aspect ratio of the entire image.
  • Scale: Zoom in or out of the image without affecting the aspect ratio.
  • X Offset: Move the photo right or left.
  • Y Offset: Move the image up or down.

When correcting the perspective of a photo, you may get white areas near the image boundaries. To prevent this, select the Constrain Crop option to automatically crop the photo according to the original dimensions.

Copy or sync Transform settings

Upright can be copied (Copy Settings) or synchronized (Sync Settings), for use on one or more photographs. Three options have been provided in the Copy Settings and Synchronize Settings dialogs. The options are:

Lightroom Classic CC Copy Settings and Synchronize Settings dialogs

Upright Mode

When you select Upright Mode, the mode that was selected is copied. However, the image that the settings were copied to, is corrected based on the content of the specific image.

Upright Transforms

When you select Upright Transforms, the exact Upright transformation is copied/synced. Selecting the Upright Transforms check box automatically selects the Upright Mode check box.

Upright Adjustments

When you select Upright Adjustments, the current values of the Vertical, Horizontal, Rotate, Aspect, Scale, X Offset, and Y Offset adjustment sliders are copied.

Choosing when to use the Upright Mode or Upright Transforms options:

When you use Upright modes, each image is analyzed and transformed according to the data it contains. Therefore, an image that is analyzed in a particular way may be analyzed slightly differently under different lighting conditions or camera angle.

  • Upright Mode. Use when most images that you are processing are different, and must be analyzed individually, to transform them according to their own information. For example, you took shots of multiple scenes across a city, but many images are slightly tilted. You can use the Level Upright mode to one image, and then copy the setting to all other images.
  • Upright Transforms: Use when you want each image to be transformed in precisely the same way. For example, you took multiple images of the same scene for an HDR workflow, but the images are slightly tilted. You can use the Level Upright mode on image, and copy the exact same transformation to each of the images being used for the HDR image.

 

In addition to applying Upright mode, these settings have been enabled for all the samples shown below:

  • Enable Profile Corrections
  • Constrain Crop