Camera Distortion Fixes - Part 5

This is a picture of a temple in Taiwan. I edited this image first in Picasa beginning with straightening it as described in this previous blog. The next step was to adjust the contrast and brightness, then the color balance, and finally the problem with the blown-out sky. I will, in future blogs, explain how to do all of the above edits using Photoshop Elements 5 instead of Picasa. A final edit was necessary in order to take care of the distortion. For that purpose it was necessary to use Photoshop Elements.

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The type of distortion you see above is quite common and is seen most frequently with photographs of buildings. When you take a picture of a building, the camera lens is closer to the bottom of the image than to the top of it. This distance difference causes the photo to appear to be leaning away from you and the image narrows as you look at it from bottom to top. It is especially obvious if you look at the columns at the left and right sides of the temple. They are all leaning into the center (Keystoning).







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