Have you ever ended up with an oddly angled wall in a photograph of a room? If you are using a wide angle lens, this seems to happen more often. Sometimes if you are looking from a high angle down on a room – I do this a lot in kitchens to show off appliances – it works well to leave the odd angles.
It is obvious in this picture that I am looking down on the room to show off the appliances and tops of the counters.
When you are really looking more directly at room and the walls are slanted like the second photo, it is better to try and correct the angle.
With a few simple steps you can make the walls in a photo straighter.
Step by Step instructions:
While your photo is open and in the workspace of Photoshop Elements go to the top menu bar and click on “Image” > “Transform” > “Skew”
You might get a message asking if you wish to create a new layer. If so, select “Yes”
Now make sure that your image is small enough to see all of the corners of your image with additional space around all four sides. You can do this easily on your PC by clicking “Ctrl -” (the minus symbol) on your Mac it’s “Command -” (also the minus symbol).
Place your cursor on the corner you wish to move out – hold down the left mouse button and drag the corner out until your wall is mostly straight. Go to the opposite corner and drag that corner out to straighten the other side.
This image shows how far I dragged out the corners to straighten the walls in this particular image.
Once you are pleased with the results click on the Check Mark. Next you want to go to “Layer” > “Flatten Image” . The reason for this is make the file itself smaller and easier to save as a jpeg file.
Let me know if you have any comments or questions.
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