Correcting Architectural Images with new Perspective Efex Plugin / Nik Collection 3

you I'm gonna start the presentation from Photoshop today and you know I'm just gonna point out for anyone not familiar the the new Nick selective tool will go ahead and just open it right up I have actually enlarged my cursor here and sometimes it's hard for me to click around because I can't tell exactly where the point is bear with me on that one but basically what we're gonna be doing is talking about perspective effects Pro today and oddly enough I'm gonna open up analog effects Pro to start to describe to folks sort of the difference between two different kinds of distortion barrel distortion and pincushion distortion there's a actually a tool in analog effects Pro that allows you to add the effect in the whole point of perspective effects Pro is to get rid of it or to correct it or maybe you know since you couldn't adjust it as you see fit you can actually adjust pincushion as well in perspective effects pardon me as I'm tripping over my words I'm gonna just turn off the different filters here for just a second and I want the plastic lens lens distortion so you know again I know that there's probably a lot of folks in here who are probably already familiar with this hopefully there's a lot of architectural photographers and I bet there's also some folks who are interested in architectural photography we the grouping of images that I have here are not highly or heavily produced architectural photographs they're primarily daylight and primarily shot in a way that needs some kind of correction anyways the lens correction tool or lens distortion tool and analog effects Pro just to show this if I slide this slider over at pin cushion you can see the the center of the image is kind of pinched inward and then you can see the edge is sort of like pulled outward right so there's pin cushion and here's barrel distortion as we go from one extreme to the next and we're not gonna apply this I just want to give you a visual as to one of the things that perspective effects is going to be correcting in fact with that I'm gonna go ahead and just click cancel as that closes I'll just point out that analog effects Pro is a style mystic effects filter or stylistic effect tool that allows you to emulate all sorts of maladies that you'd you have with film basically and optical systems lenses that you might have problems with that you actually might want to add in for aesthetic purposes alright so we're back in Photoshop we're going into our Nick selective tool we're gonna click on perspective effects right off the bat the software is going to launch we'll see our nice new interface here and um what I need to do so it's just telling us that we're currently using perspective effects to return to Photoshop we use the buttons in the lower right corner save or cancel that'll bring us back we're in perspective effects and I opened the raw file from Photoshop right it opened from my finder into Adobe Camera Raw and I actually didn't apply automatic lens Corrections because we're gonna use the automatic lens Corrections here with in perspective effects and I want to point that out because otherwise we may be doubling up on adjustments to these kinds of perspective effects now first things first if you follow me to the upper right corner this first tool is going to allow us to fix distortion that pertains to the lens and the camera body so it's the combination of the lens in the camera body together and what you'll notice is right now my software saying download module and that's because I don't have the DxO mark module that is designed for this lens camera combination so we're gonna click download module it's going to go ahead and tell us that this was shot on a d8 50 with an i-cord 24 270 and that's what we're going to be downloading so I click download once it downloads it's gonna be hidden away on our computer it's a it's a just a few kilobyte module that is a you know basically set of profiles that will basically fix any optical issues and distortion occurring because of that combination of the focal length of the lens that I shot at in the camera long story short if we turn off the distortion by basically clicking little checkbox --tz-- to the left of the distortion label you can see the before and then the after I need to click Auto so that automatically fixes this now the beauty of this is that there are all sorts of DxO modules that are a combination of cameras and lenses so if you've got a funky camera and lens that maybe other solutions don't have modules profiles for you can you can fix any distortion that might be occurring because of that given that the DxO market has a profile for it now from there I'm gonna move into the perspective section here and I'm just gonna click auto and we're gonna talk about all of these different tools but for the most part to correct a lot of the problems that you're gonna see in these images you can just click the auto button and it's gonna go and fix the issue for you again we're gonna talk about these different features in the next few minutes but I just want to start out with a kind of once-over with the interface in fact let's just go up to the upper left corner of the interface and we can zoom into one-to-one if we'd like to so if I click on that that's gonna zoom us in and then if I click on it again oh sorry I've got to click to fill screen so in the upper left corner we're able to zoom in easily or zoom out you can also use command + or command - if you're on a Mac the ctrl + or ctrl - on a PC and if you want to see a before and after so we're looking at the cursor this time in the upper left corner you can go from the before and the after and then we can click to add a grid to the image if we wanted to see our photo with a grid which can be very helpful when we're attempting to you know a-line or straighten perspective issues it's one of the main issues that we have when shooting architectural photography unless you're using a corrected lens a lens that will correct for this ah like a tilt shift lens when you're able to shift it up or down you're typically having to point your camera back if it's a large building and you're going to get a keystoning effect and this tool is a really fantastic tool for being able to fix that both automatically and manually alright so I'm happy with our perspective I don't think anything's gonna happen if I click on auto for the horizon but let's see what happens if we just click Auto it's got to process it there's no shift because it was actually pretty well on plane and my perspective adjustment probably fixed the issue and then one thing that's really a nice addition to the Nik collection and this doesn't exist anywhere else within the NIC suite so it's worth pointing out is that there's a crop feature built into perspective effects which is gonna allow us to crop the image however we might want to or need to and it's got your sort of standard aspect ratios you can create your own custom aspect ratio as well and again you can crop in all sorts of different tools but this is the first of in the plugin a suite then they could plugin suite where you've got the crop feature so it's a nice addition with that we've basically corrected the image using the module that was downloaded for the D 850 in the Nikkor 2470 we used our perspective adjustment and then we clicked on horizon although it didn't make any difference uh and we're gonna click the Save button in the lower right corner and what that's gonna do is it's going to return back over into Photoshop and it will make the adjustment to our original layer of pixels alright so note that as well so it's a little bit different than most of the rest of the suite in so much as if I want to work in Photoshop with layers it's probably a good idea to actually duplicate the background layer first because the perspective effects because of the way that the adjustments are being made it doesn't do it for us so this is not necessarily an architectural photo it is an interior and we have a subject I just want to straighten out these lines so let's take a look at how to do that we've got our layers here in Photoshop I'm gonna go ahead and just tap command J that's on a Mac ctrl J on a PC I believe and what that does is it duplicates the current background for us or current layer of pixels command J so now we've got our separate layer I'm going to click on perspective effects the software will launch it will automatically have shot this with a different lens oh yeah this was shot with a 14 to 24 if I remember correctly so I'll click the module again I actually thought I'd used this lessons from the same different day actually completed in place anyways the auto adjustment is going to correct for this particular lens and actually at 14 millimeters I want to say this was shot at about 16 or 18 millimeters at 14 millimeters with this particular lens there's quite a lot of distortion so this is a really wonderful tool to be able to basically automatically turn on let's see what volume deformation does so we're gonna turn it on by clicking on one of the options and this is the horizontal and vertical and then the second option is a diagonal option and actually if you look at the diagonal it's introducing some distortion the idea of this volume deformation is to try to fix with wide-angle images the difference between the edge of the image and the center of the photograph and I actually have another sort of better image to show for that purpose but if we turn it on and then turn it off again you should see a slight difference and the edges should look a little bit straighter so right now if you notice some of these horizontal lines here they're a little bit bent when you go ahead and click on your volume deformation it has a default setting of the horizontal slider at 100% if we take the vertical slider and we dial that up some you can see what it's doing in fact I'll I'm gonna take this down to zero and then I'm gonna bring this all the way up to 200% or 200 setting it's not 200% but and you get a sense for what's happening here so if the automatic adjustments aren't doing it don't fix exactly what you need or aesthetically you feel like it's nicer to make these adjustments you've got your horizontal and vertical slider able to do that now one thing that's weird with this image is that I'm actually a little cattywampus off of the door here I'm not completely straight so the perspective tool is going to be an important one to use here I typically suggest starting with the auto adjustment and that's going to try and fix it for us I think in this case it's not do exactly what I want it to do and by the way as I do this it it's hard I'm not turning the things on and off very much and some of the adjustments are pretty subtle this is actually kind of extreme but the the thing to note is that a lot of these little adjustments are what's going to really help to hone in and take a good photograph and make it into a great photograph obviously you've got to have good exposure or good focus that the subject matters got to be on and you've got to have you know you have to make a decent photograph to begin with but kind of like sharpening shifting and changing the perspective in these ways are what's gonna hope in a lot of cases separate a decent photograph with a great photograph okay so let's see what where's what would happen if we actually laid out a rectangle on this image so rather than using the auto adjustment we'll click on the rectangle and as we click on that a couple things happen first of all the preview changes right and you get a sense for what what the distortion and volume deformation is doing it's stretching and adjusting these pixels so you can see where the image area is with the image is bright in the area of pixels that have basically been shifted to fix these perspective problems right so that's what you're seeing in these darker pixels here mind you you can change the line color right now the line color is set to white but if you follow me into the lower left corner here you can click on that and then you can change the line color to any color you might want I think in this case white works but maybe in certain photographs you'd need to change that or you have a particular tone or color of a line that you'd prefer to work with because it it's higher contrast or works better for your eyes long story short we've clicked on the box perspective and which means we basically need to lay these out in the exact manner so I'm gonna go ahead and click and drag each one of these corners to the corners of the door if I can find them and that's one thing that I would I would make sure to mention he I want to find the right corners of the door figuring that this is going to be straight if you know the end of the adjustments and I need to make sure that I'm lining this up properly now this is relatively easy to line up sometimes it's not and you have to hold the shift key so you hold the shift key down and you go from a kind of course movement of the line an adjustment point to a fine adjustment so if I'm not holding shift you can see it moves around very very quickly as I hold the shift key down now when I move my mouse I get a nice subtle little adjustment I just need to basically find where that corner is I'm gonna guess it's right here based upon the other lines and we're gonna click preview that's gonna make the adjustment for us and click apply and now we've got straight lines right because we've adjusted our distortion we've fixed our volume deformation and now we've shifted the perspective so that in this case the stuff that's straight is the doorway right and the the problem that I'm running into here is that when I shot the photograph I wasn't straight on to the door and I think I was also looking up at it a little bit with this really wide angle lens so being able to shift these and change them in this way is a really fantastic way to kind of clean up and in this case make a little bit more of a balanced image so I'm gonna click the Save button in the lower right corner and um just I'm gonna go ahead and rename our layer as well perspective effects so that we can see a difference between the before and after we're here in Photoshop we've got our layers here I'm gonna turn off that bottom layer you can see the before and you can see the after so we've straightened out the image we've fixed the perspective in the deformation that's occurring because of the lens and camera combination and I'm happier with this and so now what I would do is take this photograph probably into silver effects Pro and convert it to black and white or maybe use color effects pro or Viva to kind of Dodge and burn and add in whatever effects are appropriate I think I actually missed focus in this case we're not a hundred percent she's not tact sharp so I would use color effects and sharpener Pro to get some detail back in her and then um go in and aesthetically sort of adjust as well yeah I think I front focused cuz this is in focus anyways not a perfect photo but that's why we've got to make those Corrections so let's jump over into Lightroom we we talked a bit about the modules that are built into the DxO perspective effects and those are the same modules that photo lab 3 uses so I'll just point that out as well so if you're a photo lab 3 user it's the same kinds of modules that are being applied this image it's it is an infrared photo so it's a little bit funky to look at but the it's the only one that I could find where I didn't have a DxO module for it because the camera lens combination doesn't doesn't exist either in Adobe or in in the DxO world so what we'll do here is show you how to manually adjust this photo so that we can correct any of these perspective issues from Lightroom to activate or to access the Nik collection you can be in the develop module or in the library module it doesn't matter and you just right click on your photo go to edit in and then in the edit in dialog you're going to have all of your different plug-ins that are installed into your Lightroom so from here we're gonna click perspective effects and mind you one of the things we want to do and this is a raw file so it's going to make us do this we want to make sure that we're editing a copy with Lightroom adjustments if we've made any adjustments with the Lightroom develop module in this case we have to because it's a raw file but I just want to make sure to point that out these these settings are perfectly acceptable settings the file format I've got set up here is a tiff color spaces Pro Photo although I'm gonna go ahead and just change that to srgb for now for web purposes although I don't think it really matters while streaming this stuff oops what happened there no my Photoshop popped up so and then my bit depth at sixteen I am going to recommend that to get the best quality results out of your post-processing when dealing with the Nik collection definitely use a tiff file and definitely a 16-bit per channel what it's going to do is offer you the best possible quality as what what's happening right now is the raw file is being duplicated and we're going to end up with a separate file in our in our film strip in our Lightroom catalog okay so in the upper right corner you'll notice that this says new DxO optical module is available to correct this image so I've got to go ahead and just click the ok button and basically what that means is that because of this lens and camera combination which was a d800 and then a nikkor 28 millimeter 2.8 that was it's a lens from the early 90s I just like to carry it around because it has a beautiful quality to it works well for infrared by the way but it doesn't have a DxO module and it also doesn't have one in any other raw processor that I can find so I've always got to go in and make these adjustments manually myself and this may be a very limited use case because it's likely that maybe you don't use manual lenses so maybe you don't care but you may run into this situation where you need to manually adjust these things so first things first in the upper right corner we can't use the auto settings so I'll go ahead and click on the manual setting and this is where you can control and adjust barrel pin cushion and then fisheye distortion and or you can add it in if you want to so you know the the idea of the software is both for corrective purposes and then also for creative purposes if if you want to be able to adjust this in fact I guess I probably didn't even need to open up analog effects Pro at the beginning I just figured I would relate that so I think the image is suffering from a little bit of barrel distortion and I think at about 30 I'm fixing it but we'll take a look at the before and after or turn our distortion on and off so there's the before and turn it on and I've got a hit distortion again and there's the after and I'm pretty happy with that but my image is not straight right so let's move into our perspective and rather than using the box this time let's just adjust using the two vertical adjustments so what this is going to allow us to do is just like the box layout these on image controls to shift the perspective of our of our building by the way this is an old mansion I want to say it was built in 1870 it's in all sable New York which is north eastern New York way up north and it's actually for sale right now so oddly enough my wife got a Google card on her phone and she recognized this from a picture but she recognized my picture from the listing and the house is actually it's got nine bedrooms and something like seven bathrooms or something and it's $54,000 right now but it's in the middle of nowhere else able and it is not in good shape but definitely check that out if you're if you're interested in these historic homes now first things first I kind of just went ahead and kind of skipped in and did the work for us I want to make sure that I correctly place our on image controls and I want to make sure that they're on them in the right area so as this shifts it shifts properly it might be interesting to do this improperly as well just to see what would happen but let's see what happens if we fix it so I'm holding the shift button down I'm adjusting the corners we click the preview button and that's going to go ahead and straighten up those verticals for us and then again what's going to happen is you're going to see all of the area that's outside of the shifted perspective so I'll click the apply button and then from there if we wanted to or if we needed to we could actually adjust these things manually so we just laid out the the vertical perspective adjustments but we could actually move in and adjust vertical sorry let's start at the top the is the amount of that shift right if I bring this down to zero none of it's going to be adjusted if I start toggling this slider up we can decide oh you know it turns out at 80 the lines look better or they are you know straighter the way to be able to really tell is to turn the grid on and that looks pretty straight right now it's actually leaning a little bit well let's see if we keep shifting it that looks pretty good um so I'm gonna turn the grid off because it just kind of confuses me as it's on it's hard to kind of get a sense for what's happening but it is a good thing to have on when you need to look and see whether your lines or edges are straight or not you you can then move into your different sliders and we can ship these up or down so in this case I don't think we need to make many Corrections again for aesthetic purposes we could go in and affect the up and down perspective adjustment right I mean this kind of does look like a fun house or a scary house at this point or haunted house rather so maybe it would be a good idea to shift these in a way that are less corrective and more creative long story short we've made our adjustments I'm gonna move on to the next image so we're gonna click the Save button and that's actually going to bring us back to Lightroom in this case there's a bunch more tools that we've got to talk about so I don't want to talk them you know keep keep us on one particular image for too long so I think what I'm gonna do is open up a few different example images that are just very different from what we've seen already and talk about those so here we've got a photograph by Zack peso check who it was a former Knick employee as well and he had given me this image a long time ago for use over the webinars or for the webinars it is a PSD file so it is not a raw file that we're taking in and so let's take a look at what happens when we take a PSD file and and and that might be important if folks do panoramic or HDR images you may be using tiff or PSD files as your if you will originals so let's look and see what's happening here edit in perspective effects Pro I am going to recommend if you can use the raw images definitely use RAW files because it's going to be perspective effects is going to be able to use the original raw information the X sorry the metadata that's built into that raw file and therefore it's going to be able to automatically make its adjustments says it's necessary so what's happening here is because this is not the original raw file it's saying you know we can't make an automatic adjustment do you want to go and open the original photo in some cases you cannot do that and so here's what you would do you would go in and manually adjust the image I don't think I need any to fix the knee this distortion I think I just added distortion in this case I also don't think I need any volume of information but what I do need is a perspective shift so this time on our door rather than using the rectangle we're going to use an eight-point system and this eight-point system is just another way of controlling our perspective shift now the this is going to be the most precise and it's also going to kind of be the most amount of work right because you've got to go and lay out your your on image controls exactly where they need to be and that's not necessarily a problem but you you definitely want to know where to place them so in this case with our doorway which I used these doorways because they're relatively easy to demonstrate on some images many images probably aren't going to be sort of as simple as lining these things up on these edges but in this case I'm going to line everything up on the edge of the outside of the doorway and that's going to be what our correction is shifted as or shifted with holding this shift button I get my fine control jump that over and the this control as well is that because there are eight points I don't have to place them on the corners of the same object I actually could lay these out on different objects or different portions of the image that I know should be straight or corrected so in this case I think it's just easy enough to place them at the corner of the outside of the doorway but again the beauty of this eight point system is that you can place them wherever you want it doesn't have to be a box like the previous example was okay so I placed the eight points we're gonna click the preview button you're gonna see that shift it's pretty subtle but now that's squared off for us so we click the apply button and that's one of the examples of how to use the eight the the eight point control I don't think we need any other adjustments on this image for correcting because I think it was shot in a way that it doesn't need it it was quite beautiful so we'll click the Save button and that's going to bring us back over in a Lightroom and that's that particular feature alright so as that shows up let's jump into another example image and for folks who maybe have seen other demonstrations about perspective effects this is just a really great example to use for this volume deformation tool because it's a hard feature to kind of really describe without a situation like this probably and that's where this image was shot on with a wide-angle lens very wide angle lens you've got the entire group of people in the image which is fantastic but around the edges of the image there's quite a bit of D formid this right so the these edges are affected but the folks in the center of the image look pretty straight as if you were standing there and seeing it in person they they look to me anyways correct on the edges not so much so we're going to go into perspective effects and just get another or a better example I would say of that volume deformation tool so again this is not original raw file it's an image that's been opened as I believe a JPEG and all we need to do is turn on the volume and click on either the horizontal vertical shift or the story the diagonal shift I don't think the diagonal shift is the one we need in this case I think it's the horizontal and vertical and again just to take a look at the before and after we go from here where the edges are deformed and the center looks good to hear where people are sort of the correct ratio and shape and the people in the centre look good as well it's a really simple example this is something that happens all the time you shooting wide-angle lenses again this is sort of an architectural photograph it's more of a group image that happens to be in a beautiful space but for the sake of time I'll just go ahead and click that Save button and what I'm wanting to do here is show a whole bunch of different examples of what might happen when you open different kinds of photographs this photo was shot with a medium format Fujifilm camera and there is no there's no Adobe module for this camera and lens combination in this version of Lightroom anyways so the software keeps developing developers will obviously update the software so that it will work I am one version back because as a few days ago there was a big push for the Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom develop and so on and so forth so I just want to point that out as well so right now I can't fix this anywhere else so I have to go into perspective effects even if I didn't want to so we're gonna go to edit in perspective effects edit a copy software's going at launch for us and I'm gonna have to download the module and actually what one of the things I should point out is as we're doing this if I haven't previously downloaded the module it means I'm actually kind of working blind on this photo so let's see what happens when we click download module so the software is correctly guessed or understands the metadata rather that what this was shot on was the GFX s with the fujinon 63 millimeter I actually thought it was the 45 but it's a 63 so we're gonna click download downloads it ships there we go voila so that is all we needed to do and the beauty of this again is that it's going to fix that distortion that's occurring because of the lens combination and camera combination I think I've said that enough I'll stop saying it the other thing we definitely need to do in this image is click on the horizon and I'm gonna click auto in this case see what happens it does fix it for us but if we don't like exactly what's happening with our horizon just like the rest of our tool set here we're able to get an on the image control and figure out exactly you know where those horizons should be or where we should place the line and in fact you can shift the angle without even using the on image control so we can go ahead and just use the slider on the right side obviously this is not straight maybe this is the what we'd want in which case you can control it that way I'm gonna go ahead and just zero that out and our on image control is going to work exactly like it did in the other controls and so basically you go and click and drag on the on image control and then we shift to get our fine control hold shift to get the fine control as opposed to a coarse adjustment okay so I've set a new horizon let's click preview that's going to shift it I'm actually happier with that because the down at the in the foreground of the image it wasn't really shot totally straight and so now we've fixed the lens distortion and then we've shifted our horizon line a little bit so I'm gonna click apply let's just take a quick look at that before and after one more time so there's the original image note note in the bottom and the foreground it wasn't totally straight even though I tried hardest and there's the adjusted image so good example in this case of when there's there's no profile designed for the this camera and lens in other pieces of software so we're able to use the the effects Pro sorry perspective effects to create this effect to fix our issues okay let's see one of the things I didn't show you is the miniature effect let's see what happens if we open up this image and the miniature effect that's built into perspective effects is a really nice feature for creating you know let's sort of railroad esque effect or model railroad s kind of effect works really nicely for aerial photography for maybe even miniatures so if you're shooting macro it could be interesting to apply a blur in a separate way I've actually been really liking this tool in on portraits recently so edit in perspective effects ended a copy um now as this launches I'm just gonna point out that it's not likely that you're gonna use every one of the tools on the right side of the interface here it's more likely that you're gonna use one or two maybe maybe all of them but it's more likely that you're gonna use you know the distortion control and maybe volume deformation for certain images as opposed to others where you're gonna have to shift perspective that said maybe you've got the holy grail and you've got to use every single tool to fix or to maybe stylize the image as you see fit but what I'm trying to do is just show you the different effects on images where maybe this these kinds of effects are appropriate all right so the miniature effect uh as we click on it so we click on the tool itself in the lower right corner we have an another on image control that actually looks different than the on image controls that we've seen previously so I want to kind of go in-depth as to how to control this so the the first thing is if you want to move the overall effect up or down by its center point you literally click on the center point and drag it wherever you want it to be from there you can rotate this like moving to one of the inside lines so either this top line or the bottom line and if you click on the point here you'll note it's very small there's some type that says zero degrees if you click on it though you can start to drag it and you can adjust to any angle you might want so right now we're making these kinds of adjustments and they are both symmetrical and they the blur is exactly the same amount on the top and on the bottom in fact I'm gonna rotate it to be sort of this way kind of like this diagonal line like that and the way that you control the blur by the way is you move to the outer point that's on the first line towards the center and you click on that you have to make sure to click on it and then you're able to click on your blur slider and you can turn it up or you can make it much more subtle I don't have any real specular highlights in this image so I think I'm gonna open up another photo and show you another feature that's in this miniature effect but before we do that the adjustment that we're making to the blur is affecting this section the bottom of the image in the top of the image in the exact same way same amount and that's because by default the symmetrical blur is on so let's turn that off for now and then let's adjust the bottom to have a lot less blur and then let the top maybe have a lot more blur by seperately controlling these points so again if you missed that I've turned off the symmetrical blur and now I'm able to control the amount of blur down here separately from the amount of blur up there the the other symmetrical tool that you have again is on by default and it's the positioning so if you click on that tool you're able to then drag each arm out individually and it's no longer symmetrical so you can create some some very funky different kinds of effects and this is the feature that I've been enjoying on portraits because I'm able to kind of wrap a blur around someone's face again we're not actually talking about portraiture at this point but it's a nice feature for that if you shoot architectural and travel and portraits and so on anyways I've turned off the symmetrical effect I'm going to show you this blur shape tool that's in the lower right corner actually on another image so let's click apply let's click save venture back over into Lightroom and if anybody joined us for our demonstration yesterday I actually used this image in perspective effects Pro to demonstrate this exact tool so bear with me if you saw this already but what I want to show you is the more blatant or overall effect of the miniature effect blur shape so let's turn on the miniature effect it's automatically going to create that for us uh we can move this around again the the defaults in the lower right corner if you follow me there are symmetrical positions and symmetrical blurs we can obviously change that as we as we might want to so let's position this maybe something like that widen this out a little bit so the edge of that building is pretty much sharp I'm going to increase actually let's leave the blur down at 40 right now see what happens if you follow me to the lower right corner what we're getting here is the ability to shift the the specular highlights and how they're rendering in in in terms of bokeh right so right now we've got a set of Wow I can't speak right now we have a circular setting so it's emulating as if the lens that we were shooting with its aperture was circular right and you can see that registering probably the best right in here right in fact watch that area as we shift so this is circular here's circular sharp so it looks more like a doughnut and it's a sharp edge to it if we go to six blades you'll see that shift and then nine bites and so that's that's what that's doing and it's nice because it just gives us that much creative control over our miniature effect which can be really quite nice so I click the apply button click the Save button and it brings us back over into Lightroom um I think that's everything I wanted to cover Laurie I've got a couple more images in here but we're coming up on time and we're probably gonna have some questions coming in so why don't we transition into that okay let me ask you a couple questions here here's a question for you where does the perspective module fit into your workflow what is the perspective so the perspective effects module so is that I'm sorry is the question in regards to the order of operations if so I'll just answer it like that you so it's a hard question because it depends upon the overall workflow that you're working in but I would suggest that before you start dodging and burning or doing stylistic adjustments localized adjustments especially use the perspective effects software in module to adjust the perspective so a few things that you might do before maybe like noise reduction or it resharpening or possibly global adjustments definitely global adjustments in your raw processor before going into perspective effects because what's happening in perspective effects to things you're typically taking a raw file and making it into a tiff file and then the other thing that you're doing is you're you want a high quality TIFF file that's got its global adjustments for the most part adjusted so that as we fix the perspective or shifted we're not going to miss out on textures details and pixel information so I'm gonna say towards the beginning of your workflow but likely after you've done your global raw processing okay great all right here's a question can this be used artistically for non architectural images example nature shots such as macro etc or sure and it's a fantastic tool for that and you know I kind of mentioned that I've been using them for portraits it'd be great for all sorts of macro images or nature photographs you again you could use it for corrective purposes which is primarily what this webinar and demonstration was about but you can definitely use it for creative purposes to stylize the image we should probably have another discussion about that in fact I think in my next webinar that that might be something that we can do I've forgotten now if it's specifically color effects Pro the next webinar that we've got so it's it's just using the entire Nik collection so good image ready there you know with that idea in mind using perspective effects for creative purposes excellent okay couple questions about location the cement building that you showed them was that the Salk Institute yes this this photograph is the Salk Institute and I'm not actually in the Salk Institute I'm I'm looking at the Salk Institute from sort of a part of the outside that's closer to the ocean I didn't use this one as a as an example image okay this is alright another question was that we're in the youth we're in New York State as a house the photo which Dan worked oh yeah so that this says Lake Placid it's actually in all Sabol and it might be considered all Sable forks which is a small very small town that had a boom era I believe it was a had an iron mill in a paper mill um you know in the early 1900s and this was one of the folks who did rather well because of those mills I don't have the specifics I read the article but I don't I don't recall the details but if you were to search i'll stable let's say I'll sit and mind you I'll stable is a you si ble AuSable forks mansion I think it's the it's definitely the only mansion there and it'll probably come up it's beautiful place yeah okay let's hear did you say that you had another image you wanted to show oh yeah absolutely I mean I was gonna okay I think this one so let's let's go back to this one I just didn't actually correct this one because we were talking about let's let's creatively adjust this so we talked about how to fix these perspectives but let's let's shift the perspective for for creative purposes and we'll actually add some pincushion distortion to shift that and it's just gonna change the shape of the building which is technically not correct although it kind of looks cool there's a zero maybe maybe it does need some pincushion adjustment so um again I'm gonna manually utilize this tool by clicking on this button in the upper right corner it's the circle that has the lines in it then we can click on peril to pincushion or fish eye and the idea is that we're correcting these effects in a good way to know if you're correcting it is by utilizing your grid overlay the shortcut for that is G on your keyboard so you can toggle that on and off if you'd like um now that I've made a subtle adjustment I think what I'm gonna do is actually use a perspective adjustment and let's let's let's shift this quite a bit so we'll use the eighth point because I kind of showed you how to fix the image what let's take a look at what happens if we aren't our goal isn't to fix an architectural image but maybe create a more creative effect which might be good for different kinds of photography okay so we've laid out that first line I wanna I'm gonna lay out this next one on a window so let's lay it out here and I think what we're gonna end up getting is a really funky effect in fact I'm hoping this window is not curved because that would possibly create some interest interesting Distortion so that again what's interesting here I didn't plan this out so let's just see what happens which is always a fun thing to do for demonstrating brand new software ah let's see trying to find the top of the stair and let's use this building for this one click preview' boom okay so that's gonna do some really funky stuff now this is actually nice to see because it's it's really the perspective control that we're doing here is is basically going to be deleting or getting rid of all of these pixels that are outside of the image area so you can see the image area that's the brighter set of pixels in the darker area that's that's what we're gonna be kind of losing if you will and if I click apply it's going to go ahead and apply that in its what again it's doing is its shifting and stretching those pixels based upon our kind of creative adjustment which is pretty funky um from there let's let's do what happens if we click into a manual cropping mode it's one-to-one right now I want to preserve I want to preserve my edges a little bit like a second ago before I hit the crop tool mind you we were losing the edge of the porch here and so by moving into the crop tool it somehow just jumped to a one-to-one ratio a square ratio which I'm fine with I'm actually going to shift this over a little bit and what's going to end up happening is we're going to end up with some black pixels around the edge that we have to fix using a clone stamp tool later on but anyways what we've got now as I click the apply button is a creatively distorted image again I don't know if I would want to utilize this feature for this particular photograph but I'm able to crop it this way you know we're emulating really messed up optics again it's sort of like the opposite of of the idea of perspective effects which is to help to correct something so let's click the Save button and I'm gonna leave it at that because if I keep messing around with the image I'm just gonna really screw it up which could be fun and interesting but probably not the best thing to do on live webinars cool any other questions that came in there Laurie that I could take really quickly in the next ten minutes yep here's one do you recommend disabling the distortion panel if it was already corrected in the source application so if you've made lens Corrections in inside of your raw processor or your initial software you you wouldn't need to use the distortion tool to correct you could use the distortion tool if you wanted to use it for creative purposes but you would you would disable that or turn it off because you would have already corrected it in your raw processor so again thanks Dan and thanks everyone for joining us today thanks everyone bye bye [Music]

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Length: 49min 20sec (2960 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 01 2020