Correcting photographic perspective

When you take pictures of tall or wide objects, the resulting photographs may have perspective distortion — that is, the objects may seem to be leaning or angled. This distortion occurs when the camera is at an angle to the subject.

By using the Perspective Correction tool, you can fix perspective distortion, such as the angled sides of a building. You can also fix photographic perspective in an entire layer by using the Pick tool.

Using the Perspective Correction tool changes the angle of the building.

To correct perspective in a photo

Edit workspace 

1	On the Tools toolbar, choose the Perspective Correction tool .

4	Click the Apply button .

You can also apply the command by double-clicking the image.

To reset the perspective correction box to the original rectangle, click Cancel on the Tool Options palette.

To correct perspective in an image layer

Edit workspace 

2	Choose View Grid to display the gridlines.

Note: To adjust the grid settings, choose View Change Grid, Guide & Snap Properties, and then use the controls on the Grid page of the dialog box.

3	On the Tools toolbar, choose the Pick tool .

If the correction causes some image data to fall outside the image canvas, you can restore that data by increasing the size of the canvas. For more information about changing the canvas size, see Resizing the canvas.

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