Best way to straighten an object without vertical lines?

[Biff]

Lightroom Version Number

Lightroom 9.2.1

Operating System

1. Windows 10

How can one straighten a conical building (without perpendicular lines)? For example a lighthouse (with no perpendicular lines). Or a street lamp (without perpendicular lines).

 

[Johan Elzenga]

How can one straighten a conical building (without perpendicular lines)? For example a lighthouse (with no perpendicular lines). Or a street lamp (without perpendicular lines).

Draw the guide through the middle.

 

[Biff]

Draw the guide through the middle.

Yes, yes, how does one find the middle?

 

[Johan Elzenga]

By keeping your eyes open. Even conical buildings will usually have vertical lines, such as window frames. A street lamp pole or a wind turbine may be a little more difficult to see, but it's still not that difficult.

 

[Biff]

Thank you for that example, I somehow always have some difficulties to straighten such. So one just has to adapt the guide lines to the estimated middle as long until the objects look straighten, that is it.

Many thanks!

 

[Califdan]

Biff, just reviewed this thread and don't see which tool folks are talking bout when they say "Guide". There are at least 3 that I know of.
1) a grid overlay
2) The "level" tool inside the Crop tool
3) The guided feature of the Transform Panel.

I suspect that Johan was using the Transform tool that lets you "Level" or "plumb" several different things in the image at once by stretching or compressing parts of the image.

The Level icon in the crop tool does not deform the image but is a quick way to rotate it so that some line you draw becomes either vertical or horozonal

The grid overlay is just a visual reference you can use when manually making rotate or transform adjustments.

 

[Biff]

Hello Califdan,

2) is the option "Angle" in the crop tool?

I suspect that Johan was using the Transform tool that lets you "Level" or "plumb" several different things in the image at once by stretching or compressing parts of the image.[/QUOT]
Yes, that is right, the most important / advanced option to straighten objects.

The Level icon in the crop tool does not deform the image but is a quick way to rotate it so that some line you draw becomes either vertical or horozonal

Yes, doing the same like the "Rotate" option, didn't notice it before Johan told me.

The grid overlay is just a visual reference you can use when manually making rotate or transform adjustments.

Yes, the drawback with it one cannot move it (line over line or so) respectively get lines on top of each other (which stay on top of each other when zooming), that does the Loupe Overlay.

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Biff, just reviewed this thread and don't see which tool folks are talking bout when they say "Guide". There are at least 3 that I know of.
1) a grid overlay
2) The "level" tool inside the Crop tool
3) The guided feature of the Transform Panel.

I suspect that Johan was using the Transform tool that lets you "Level" or "plumb" several different things in the image at once by stretching or compressing parts of the image.

The Level icon in the crop tool does not deform the image but is a quick way to rotate it so that some line you draw becomes either vertical or horozonal

The grid overlay is just a visual reference you can use when manually making rotate or transform adjustments.

I was talking about guided upright in the transform panel and from his reply I conclude that Biff understood that.

 

[Califdan]

2) is the option "Angle" in the crop tool?

Yes. The Level icon is right next to the word "Angle" in the crop tool

 

[Califdan]

I was talking about guided upright in the transform panel and from his reply I conclude that Biff understood that.

I assumed it was in the Transfform panel, and perhaps Biff did as well - I can't tell - , but many people read these posts in steal mode and it might not have been clear to them what tool was being referred to. So, just wanted to offer some clarification.

 

[Biff]

Yes. The Level icon is right next to the word "Angle" in the crop tool

Ah yes, so another kind of the "Rotate" option, thank you.