Converging verticals - How to fix in CS3?

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I am trying to take more architecture pics, but each time I take a pic of a tall-ish building or monument, I end up with converging verticals.

Can these be sorted out using CS3? If so, how do I do it?
 
Well this is how I'd do it... but I'd love to know if thre's a better way...:

CTRL A (to Select All)
CTRL ' (to bring up a grid to align to)
EDIT / TRANSFORM / PERSPECTIVE... (or distort, rotate etc. as needed)
Tug the handles around to line everything up how you want it then apply.
Crop the image to bring the edges square again.

HTH :)
 
Flashman said:
Well this is how I'd do it... but I'd love to know if thre's a better way...:

CTRL A (to Select All)
CTRL ' (to bring up a grid to align to)
EDIT / TRANSFORM / PERSPECTIVE... (or distort, rotate etc. as needed)
Tug the handles around to line everything up how you want it then apply.
Crop the image to bring the edges square again.

HTH :)
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Thats how i do it
 
you can go
Filter /distort/ lens distortion
and then adjust the picture from the screen that will load up.
But to be honest I find the method Flashman has posted often works better and is easier.
 
You can also right click in the selected area and chose free transform from the menu.
 
Control A= Select all
Control T= Free Transform
Grab the handles at the corner of the image , hold down the control key ( this allows you to move only handle you've grabbed.) and move that part of the image.

Double click on the image to lock the changes

Done
 
Loads of different ways of doing the same thing. ;)
 
Chappers said:
Control A= Select all
Control T= Free Transform
Grab the handles at the corner of the image , hold down the control key ( this allows you to move only handle you've grabbed.) and move that part of the image.
Click to expand...

......and if you hold down shift, control and alt at the same time (takes a bit of doing!!) you can move the right and left corners at the same time, if you need symmetry.
 
As nice as the perspective/skew transforms can be for final touching up, I find the best way to nip the problem is to use the Lens Correction filter; it gives you an objective means of measuring the distortion which, with some practise, should mean you can key in the same values every time for any image you take at that focal length with that camera.


Simply Filters > Distort > Lens Correction, then have a fiddle with the perspective controls. Also has a handy grid built in to it so you always have a reference point.



Or you could just get a perspective control lens if you're made of money or do it often enough :thumbs:
 
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