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This is a onestep solution in Lightroom for straightening up photos, and saving the need to take it into Photoshop for a simple edit. 

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Topic: Lightroom-Upright

Straighten photos in Lightroom.

When to use

This is a onestep solution in Lightroom for straightening up photos, and saving the need to take it into Photoshop for a simple edit.

Instructions

Auto straightening Photos in Lightroom

  1. Open in image in Lightroom.
  2. Go to the develop tab.
  3. In the lens correction section turn on the ‘Enable Lens Correction’.
  4. Click the ‘Auto’ button in the upright section of the lens correction settings.

Settings choices

Auto: Best guess option.
Full: Looks for both vertical and horizontal lines.
Level: Looks for primary horizontal lines (ground, horizon, etc).
Vertical: Looks for primary vertical lines (walls, doorways, poles, etc).

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  • 00:04 Hey, everyone.
  • 00:05 Howard Pinsky here taking a look at another new feature coming in
  • 00:07 Enlighten 5, upright.
  • 00:09 How many times have you taken a picture of a horizon or
  • 00:12 a bunch of buildings only to find out that that picture was taken on an angle?
  • 00:16 So, you're bring it in to Light Room.
  • 00:17 You go into the crop tool.
  • 00:18 Grab the straighten tool.
  • 00:19 You draw a line across the horizon, and it straightens it out.
  • 00:23 Wouldn't it be amazing if Light Room could just do that for you?
  • 00:26 Well now, with Light Room 5 with the upright feature,
  • 00:29 Light Room has the ability of automatically with one click of a button.
  • 00:33 Straighten out your photo, let me show you how this works.
  • 00:36 With your image, open and your develop module active head down to
  • 00:39 the lens correction section and go ahead and turn on enable profile corrections.
  • 00:44 Now, you can select one of the four upright settings.
  • 00:46 Im most situations, auto will straighten out your image with pretty high accuracy,
  • 00:51 but of course you're free to choose other options as well.
  • 00:54 Just so you know what the other options do if you select full it's
  • 00:56 gonna apply a full 3D correction to the image.
  • 00:59 It's gonna level and fix converging horizontal and vertical lines even if it
  • 01:04 involves an extremely strong correction or large rotation.
  • 01:08 Now, the level option, well levels the image,
  • 01:10 it fixes tilts, similar to an automatic application of the straighten tool.
  • 01:15 Or, using the rotate slider.
  • 01:16 This will not fix converging horizontal and vertical lines.
  • 01:20 And then, you have the vertical option which combines the leveling step
  • 01:24 with fixing converging verticals.
  • 01:26 So again, the auto binding will usually straighten out your image,
  • 01:28 especially if you are working with a horizon or a building, but feel free to
  • 01:31 try out the other options if you didn't get the result that you desired.
  • 01:34 And, that's a quick look at the new operate feature within Lightroom 5.

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