These corrections require working in layers, and ultimately cropping out the now missing corners of the new composition, but with enough room in the original framing that it’s a solid fix for most ultrawide distortions. If the camera’s tilt isn’t directly vertical, but rather canted to the side as well, the Distort, Skew and Perspective adjustments in the Transform tool allow you to control lines at the edges of the frame independently.
If you find this repair isn’t quite enough, a little more powerful control comes from the Transform > Perspective tool. (It’s also effective for repairing barrel distortions.) Simply adjust the Vertical Perspective slider to the left to repair distortions caused by tilting an ultrawide up, known as “keystoning,” or slide to the right to repair distortions caused by looking down. CORRECTING DISTORTIONįor small distortions, the Lens Correction filter in Photoshop makes perspective changes quick and easy. Thankfully, this is a fairly straightforward and often effective solution. But when the distortion isn’t an intention but a consequence of the composition, the only way to fix it (short of recomposing) is to turn to the computer. Sometimes this effect is a desirable one. What happens when you have to tilt up just a little bit to get the top of a crucial element in the frame? The lines begin to point outward at the upper corners of the scene.