Fix distortion in your photos

Ian Evenden explains how to repair wonky, bendy or otherwise distored photos in Windows 10.

One of the simplest and most effective edits you can make to a photo is to straighten it. We humans rarely have built-in level indicators, and it’s easy to end up taking a photo that’s wonky. Even with in-camera levels, which project information into the viewfinder, your images can still come out with a lean. Even worse is the effect that lens distortion can have on tall buildings. As you lean back to fit a skyscraper into the frame, the bottom of the tower block can bulge out, while the top shrinks rapidly, becoming narrower as it moves away. That’s if it’s in the centre of the frame – put a tall building at the edge of a photo taken with a wide-angle lens and it can appear to lean…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019

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