Comments on: How to correct lens distortion in Adobe Camera Raw http://www.practicalphotoshopmag.com/2012/03/17/1035/ Just another Future Publishing Blog Network site Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:31:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Rhino http://www.practicalphotoshopmag.com/2012/03/17/1035/#comment-581 Rhino Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:50:14 +0000 http://www.practicalphotoshopmag.com/?p=1035#comment-581 I realize that this tutorial is titled "Lens Correction" but it also refers to aligning the horizon. The method shown will work, but there's a better way, and tool to do it, the Straighten Tool (shortcut A). To use it click on the tool, click on one end of any horizontal line, and drag the cursor along the line. A dotted line will follow the cursor. When you release the cursor nothing appears to happen, but if you look at the image you'll see a new bounding box at an angle to the original frame. Press Enter and the image is cropped with the horizontal corrected. That advantage of using this tool is that it can be used on any horizontal or vertical line, even a short one, like a window ledge, a door frame, a roof-line. I realize that this tutorial is titled “Lens Correction” but it also refers to aligning the horizon. The method shown will work, but there’s a better way, and tool to do it, the Straighten Tool (shortcut A). To use it click on the tool, click on one end of any horizontal line, and drag the cursor along the line. A dotted line will follow the cursor. When you release the cursor nothing appears to happen, but if you look at the image you’ll see a new bounding box at an angle to the original frame. Press Enter and the image is cropped with the horizontal corrected.

That advantage of using this tool is that it can be used on any horizontal or vertical line, even a short one, like a window ledge, a door frame, a roof-line.

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