Crazy Lens Corrections & Perspective Changes for Architecture Photos Lightroom Tutorial Video Lecture | Adobe Lightroom CC: Photo Editing Masterclass - Design

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hey everybody welcome into this Adobe
Lightroom tutorial I'm Nathaniel Dodson
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talk about the really incredible power
of lens correction and the guided
upright tool in Adobe Lightroom now if
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so here we are in Adobe Lightroom and I
have this photo shot it about they some
are between 17 and 20 millimeters so
with the Canon 17 240 f/4 lens I've just
swung through Pittsburgh for a quick
trip a little while ago and I've had a
couple of these architectural photos and
these photos in particular are really
interesting to play around with the lens
correction features here in the labrum
now before I do any of the big lens
correction stuff I usually like to come
over here and by the way we're in the
develop module the develop area of labor
I want to come down here and open up the
lens Corrections tab and for the most
part especially if I'm working with a
raw photo I like to enable the profile
Corrections this is basically just going
to allow Lightroom to try to auto detect
what the make and model of the camera is
or make a model the lens excuse me
that's being used is so it can kind of
make the appropriate Corrections for
vignette allege
in cushion distortion that it kind of
knows it should you can also tweak the
distortion amount just kind of by
playing around with this slider I'm
going to leave it as it is I just
generally like to go and do that with
virtually any raw photo that I'm working
with here in Lightroom because you know
hey why not but the big change is going
to happen down here under the transform
tab now this is where things get
interesting we have a number of options
auto guided level vertical and full and
we'll get into messin with the vertical
and the full adjustments in a moment but
a level basically is going to try to
just level your photo out based on these
smart artificial intelligence here that
that Lightroom possesses that's not
quite what I want so I'm going to just
command or control Z to undo that we
also have the option up here to do an
automatic lens correction you can see it
really is you know tweaking and messing
around with things I don't really like
that either I'm most interested in this
tool right here the guided upright tool
and you can click right there to use it
or you can hit just a guided option here
now part of the cool thing about the
guided upright tool is well number one
you get this nice little zoomed in
automatic loop so you can see where
you're clicking and let's say I can tell
this building looks like it is laying a
backward because I'm down here at Street
View shooting with a wide-angle lens so
the the image looks like it's almost
laying back well this will actually help
us correct it so let's just say all
right we're going to click and hold here
at the top part of the building and I'm
going to drag all the way down along
what would be the same here
the same sort of rib that runs along the
front of the building I'm just going to
try to line it up as best I can with
that there we go so that's nice and
straight and I think I'll come here to
the outer portion of the building over
here and I'll drag a line down along
this part of the building so something
kind of just like that and I can see I
get this really extreme change in fact
if you've looked around at a lot of
architectural photography portfolios
you're going to see this kind of effect
where it almost looks like the top of
the building is being like splayed
outward and the bottom is almost being
pinched inward and this is what it is
it's this kind of correction taking
place for the fact that the photographer
was down very low and we're shooting
upward with a wider angle lens you're
trying to correct that but good for us
we have some additional transform
options here a vertical horizontal now
these are going to do things like hey
maybe I don't want the photo to look
like it's laying back as much tool
straight and even more now that's
probably a bad idea because the guided
upright does give us perfectly straight
up-and-down lines but something that
could help us here is this aspect option
an aspect what that's going to do is
it's going to either make our photo
taller and skinnier or kind of like
shorter and fatter or shorter and wider
and that is what you can use if you
widen the photo a little bit you can
kind of combat that really bizarrely
elongated spreading out look as you can
see it's doing here it's not perfect but
it does a lot to help and then
scaling is what we can use or you can
choose to constrain crop which will
basically crop into get rid of all these
white areas but you can just use scale
and kind of scale in to get rid of some
of that stuff and you can take it into
Photoshop and try doing some
content-aware fill now obviously here
you can see the edge of I think there
was some kind of filter I was using that
day I don't really remember but there's
there's a lot of work would have to go
on there but instead of constraining the
crop here what I would normally do is
come to the actual crop tool use that
and we can just constrain our crop this
way and here I'm just going to right
click and uncheck constrain aspect ratio
because we want to just kind of do like
a total free-form crop here you can see
we can crop away all that white stuff
and we get you know an image that's not
at any kind of like you know oh that's a
recognizable aspect ratio 16:9 or 4 to 3
or whatever but we have a photo that has
been corrected in terms of those lines
on the building are straight now you
might not like it you might want to go
back into the transform tool and say I
really really need it just kind of
shorten and widen that even more or
maybe I want to take the vertical and I
want to just mess with it a little bit
and try to try to straighten it kind of
to the point where it looks good to my
eye and obviously you can do whatever
you like do it looks good but use these
tools and the guided upright is a really
nice way to attack an image specifically
like this where you have a lot of
vertical lines and by the way you can
use horizontal lines as well in the
guided upright tool so you can do a lot
with that tool in terms of specifying
exactly how you want Lightroom to attack
the lens correction and in this case you
know full transformation of the photo
now let's jump over here to this other
photo was same the same kind of deal
where the buildings look like they're
laying backward because it was shot you
know standing on the street corner same
17 millimeter lens all that jazz so the
buildings look like they're laying
backward a little bit all I want to do
here is just show you here will tick on
enable profile Corrections there we go
looks good and we'll go to transform and
we're just going to try straightening
this of vertically so this is going to
level the image off and try to
straighten the vertical lines and when
we do that you're going to see it gives
us a little bit of that same effect
almost as the guided upright tool did
where the buildings now look like
they're sort of splaying outward near
the top we can grab our crop tool we can
pull this back and I can look and sure
enough if you look over here that like
edge of the brick is going perfectly
straight up and down along with my
so I know it made them straight up and
down it may not be exactly may not be
exactly what you the look that you're
going for necessarily but those are
straight up and down and we can use our
aspect again to just kind of like you
know make it a little bit wider or do
whatever correction we feel like needs
to be made in this case I'll just tick
on constrain crop and you can see it
just knocks away that extra junk so
that's that's one way you can work with
vertical and it's really cool to kind of
play around with that now one thing I do
want to show you here is with the full
option over here if I am if I just undo
this a few times and get rid of the
transform feature that I applied to this
like so and then I come over and just
choose full and this would be the same
as using like a guided upright tool and
select a couple vertical lines and then
select a horizontal line if I use full
what Lightroom is going to do is it's
going to try to kind of straighten the
image out I'm going to undo that it's
basically taking the face of the
building here and trying to turn the
whole camera as if I was standing on the
street corner over near where like this
car is and what's really cool is you can
see like there's that sign right there
in the window if I hit full you can
actually kind of read what that sign
says lease and it's got the company's
name and even the phone number it's
preserved so it's taking an incredible
amount of detail and sort of
reconstructing this now obviously if you
absolutely wanted to keep this you could
go ahead and grab the crop tool of
course right let's just shut off the
constrain aspect ratio and we would like
pull this back a little bit and we pull
this up right and maybe this is the
photo and you're like whoa this is
exactly what I need this has saved my
butt but obviously this big street sign
is in the way and Lightroom is not smart
enough to know that that really
shouldn't be moving with everything else
so you would have to do a serious clone
job in Photoshop to clean that up but it
really is remarkably incredible that it
will take that entire facade and rotate
it into the camera there's a lot you can
do in terms of straightening out shots
buildings signs maybe you want to
straighten out a sign there's a lot you
can do and like I said you can just use
the guided upgrade tool if you want go
like vertical line vertical line and
then just draw a horizontal line across
that face and it would turn the whole
image into the camera as well so just
something to think about if you're
looking at a photo and something's not
quite exactly how you want it to be you
have the power to make massive changes
just like that so lastly let's come over
here to this shot which is just some of
the
bridges in Pittsburgh and we'll do the
same thing lens to lens correction just
on a matter of principle at this point
but if we come under transformer we go
for full here you can see extra does a
really nice job of kind of turning the
camera into this angular railing right
so we can say full and I'm just looking
down here across the bottom whoops oh I
want to I want to go ahead and get full
again I accidentally undid that animal
make sure we can strain the crop as well
and when we do that we're back to where
we were you can see here across the
bottom maybe it's not quite as straight
as we want it to be so you have your
rotate options we can go ahead and
rotate the image if that's not quite
working you might want to swing the
horizontal view so maybe I'll swing that
there we go maybe that's more like what
I wanted and we're pretty much good to
go we could adjust the vertical a little
bit if it needs to be you can adjust the
aspect a little bit in this case the
aspect is actually working pretty well
for us but the whole point is if I hit
the little toggle on/off switch here
there's before the the image shot very
obviously on an angle not maybe in the
quote unquote proper position and you
just rotate the entire photo so the
railings just running beautifully
straight across the the foreground of
the frame just by using the full option
over here in the transform panel so
there's really an immense amount of
stuff you can do here with the lens
Corrections in a Lightroom I really
think you're going to enjoy it get in
there and play around with it there's so
much you can do with so many of your
photos portraits landscape photos urban
stuff really anything with geometric
shapes which is part of the reasoning
urban stuff looks and works or maybe I
should say architectural stuff in
general urban and architectural in
particular you can do incredible things
with here in the Elend correction but
especially lens correction with the
transform tab as well here in Adobe
layer so guys I really hope you've
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correction and aspect ratio and even
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power of the guided upgrade tool here in
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