Hi! In this video we’re going to look at the the new Guided Upright Tool in Adobe Lightroom.
Hi! I’m Adam and welcome to First Man Photography the channel that will help you take your photography
to the next level. In the video, we’re going to be using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
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up where you can get a free trial. Okay let's get into this.
So Adobe Lightroom received an update this week that was available to Adobe Creative
Cloud members and they introduced a new tool called the Guided Upright which can be used
to correct perspective in your photographs. It’s quickly become one of my new favourite
tools. We’re going to use the Guided Upright Tool to make changes to two images: one where
it’s a very subtle change that really improves the image and then a second image where it’s
really drastic, emergency recovery of that image. That should really give you a good
idea how you can use the Guided Upright Tool and apply it your own work. Okay, let's get
into the computer. Okay, so we go straight into Lightroom and
this is the first image that we’re going to be using. I’ve shot this specifically
for this tutorial and it’s really poor image. So this is really a method you just use for
rescuing things in an emergency situation. This image would look much better if my lines
were straight and square on to that window because, at the moment, it’s has terrible
perspective. This will give you an idea of really what this Guided Upright Tool can do.
First thing you want do is make sure you're in the Develop module, which we are. If not,
click D on your keyboard to go into the Develop module. Scroll down and we want to first Remove
Chromatic Aberration and Enable the Lens Corrections because it just seems to give better results
when using the Guided Upright Tool. So once that’s done, come down to the Transform
palette here. If you can’t see it, just unwind the arrow to reveal that palette. Then
click on Guided and we’re just then going to draw four guides onto our image: two on
the vertical and two for the horizontal. So the first one I’m going to do made along
the edge of this brick here using the little pop-up loop that appears just to get that
accuracy. Draw that down. That’s the first one and I’m going to do a second one on
the edge of this window here like that and, once I’ve done that, I can then do two horizontal
areas. So you can see you’ve got different perspective errors. You’ve got this one
here. I’m going to do one there, across like that and it straightens it up a little
bit. Then I’ve got the windowsill here, which I want to have square on. It’s a different
angle, so I’m going to draw it along the window there and, when I release this, it’s
amazing what happens. That’s incredible the way we’ve gone from that terrible perspective
to this new image here. We do have this white space that’s introduced because that wasn't
present. in the way that Lightroom has warped and distorted the image has left this white
space but we’re going to solve that by using Photoshop after we’ve edited the next photo.
The second image is a slightly more subtle change. It’s already a pretty decent image
but when I shot this I wasn't particularly happy with the perspective I got with this
pumping station in this reservoir. The reason this happens is because when shooting with
extreme wide-angle lenses, which I was in this case, I'm at 20 mm here. It introduces
distortion because of the way physics works, the way light enters that wide-angle lens,
it distorts things. That’s unavoidable unless you're using a tilt shift lens and utilising
the shift part of that lens but they can get expensive so post-processing is really our
only option in this case and this tool does do a good job of the doing what a shift lens
can do. So, again, I’m just going to come down to the upright panel and make sure that
we have our Remove Chromatic Aberration and Profile Corrections done. Click Guided and
I'm just going to draw a guide down the edge of the pump station here, one there and then
looking at the edge of this one here, draw one down there. That’s a nice subtle change.
Let’s just see what it's like. I think I’m actually happy that. I’m not sure whether
I'll need a horizontal line. Let’s just draw that in there. Now that’s already wrong
because I'm already nice and straight on the horizontal. I'm just going to delete that
and leave the vertical line. That’s where it’s causing me problems. Now, you can then
just click on Done. Save those changes and still, again, we have this white space. We’re
going to correct that by using the Content Aware Fill in Photoshop. So just right click
on the image and go to Edit In and go to Photoshop. It just takes a minute to load into Photoshop
and then just open a copy with Lightroom Adjustments and then Photoshop opens our image. So very
quickly, we can be nondestructive. Copy your background layer if you want to but I’m
not going to in this case I’m just going to show you straight in is to select the Magic
Wand tool here. That might be on the Quick Selection tool, sometimes, which can also
be used to make your selection. In this case, I don’t need to use the Magic Wand tool
and then just select this first area. Then you want to go to Edit and then Fill and make
sure Content Aware, it’ll usually be on the Foreground or Background Colour to start
with. Just go down to Content Aware and then click Okay and the magic happens. Deselect
that, Command D or Control D depending whether you’re on Apple or PC and then select the
second area with our Magic Wand tool. Same again, goes Edit, Fill, Content Aware is already
selected, so click Okay and it will put the second area in. So the Content Aware fill
has done its magic, I will then just go in, although I’m not going to in this tutorial,
I'll go in and clone out a few of the areas that is made here. That's very easy to do
and it’s a subject of another tutorial. So we’ve gone from an image like this, to
an image like this and you can see it’s a really subtle change but I think it's really
effective and makes it a much better image. It will be particularly effective on cityscapes,
things like that and other images have straight lines. Like I said, it really is a great tool.
Practice with it, give it a go with some of your images and see how useful it can be for
you. Okay, I hope you enjoyed that. Please give
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