How To Correct Distortion in Architectural Interiors with Photoshop

Shooting with a wide angle and without a tilt shift lens architectural and real estate photographers can experience unwanted distortion to objects in the frame. Often this can be light fixtures, light shades and chandeliers so in this photo editing tutorial we'll tackle a rather difficult example. If we can fix this, we can fix anything!
This is a follow up video to this tutorial, where I show how we get from the raw photos to this point. • Editing Interior Archi...
At the end of the video I run a quick fix which I apply to just about every architectural photo before I send them back to my clients. This is achieved with Luminar AI. If you want to check it out you can get a free trial at the link below and you can use discount code ATSKY10 if it feels like a good fit for your workflow: bit.ly/Lum-AI .When this is done as a bulk / batch edit at the end this is a real time saver and elevates the quality of your imagery. Let me know in the comments if you'd like me to show how to recreate my architecture editing preset.
Previously I've covered the organizing of photos after the shoot here: • Architectural Photogra...
And also the steps necessary to get your proof photos to a state we can send back to our client: • Fast Editing For Archi...
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[@archiphoto]

The previous video that shows how we got to this starting point is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJauiWVvi72XatE Thanks so much for watching and your positive feedback! 😀

[@ChristyStesky]

That was actually really helpful to see the in depth problem solving that goes into your work. Sometimes it’s not a one-click fix…and that’s what makes photo editing an artform! I would sit through as many of these as you have patience to make :) Thanks AT.

[@archiphoto]

I really appreciate that. Cheers Christy!

[@HoustonBrownPhotography]

I never thought about correcting objects that were distorted in that manner but I will now. Thank you.

[@aes53]

This has been a great series Anthony, so helpful.

[@JewelsFlowers]

Excellent video! It's rare to find an in-depth editing vid. Please show more editing tricks. I am more than happy to sit through a video that will bring professional value to my photography. Thank you for sharing. Keep up the good work.

[@drpentecost]

Great tutorial Anthony. Thanks for the time and effort that you put into your videos.

[@jeffphillips9299]

Great stuff, thanks Anthony

[@archiphoto]

Thanks Jeff

[@phetchetluon]

love for your tutorial, tks bro

[@panomaxstudio8454]

Great Anthony. Thanks alot for your time to teach something. 👑

[@CindyLarson]

Great video's! Thank you! I've been enjoying all the video's you have in this channel. I'm really looking forward to seeing how to create the architecture editing preset next. :)

[@archiphoto]

Awesome, thank you!

[@JonathanMillsjthemills]

I would really love to see how to make your Luminar Preset. Great video BTW.

[@spencerbackman]

Incredibly helpful, mate. Thank you. 🙏🏽

[@archiphoto]

Great to hear Spencer. 👍

[@julianuk3266]

top notch editing mate !

[@archiphoto]

Thanks Julian

[@JonGibbsPhotography]

My brain after watching that one!!!!🤯🤣🤣🤣Amazing stuff

[@jswalk4]

Be curious to know your settings in Luminar. Great video

[@archiphoto]

Hi Jeff. Not sure if you saw it, but I put a video together on my Luminar settings for adding that finishing touch to the photos. kzbin.info/www/bejne/maPIeYt7hN5jg80

[@dennygreenonyt]

Please show how you add the preset! Great video as always!

[@dionjenkins3279]

Thanks Anthony! Would be great to see your Luminar AI preset. I used your code previously to acquire Luminar :)

[@archiphoto]

Nice one Dion. Don't know if you saw the video yet but I put this together on how to replicate my "finishing look" in Luminar kzbin.info/www/bejne/maPIeYt7hN5jg80

[@jeffreyrosenberg7765]

Would love to see the making of the preset

[@ArminHirmer]

quite some work, but fully worth it

[@jaguarjj]

That works beautifully for the lights, but won't do good by the table or the sofa near the camera to the right

[@archiphoto]

Sometimes you just gotta do what you can. Unfortunately walls dictated the camera position so I just had to go with it. There are geometry fixes we could apply here too but sometimes you just have to draw the line between effort and reward, acceptable results vs perfection, esp when it comes down to time invested.

[@vicwahbyphotography4866]

Similar to a below comment, I'm also interested in knowing if there are any techniques available to reduce wide angle distortion across an entire picture. Thanks so much in advance!

[@archiphoto]

Hi. There are onsite techniques we can use, such as getting further back and zooming the lens in and away from wider angles like 16mm, also moving objects where possible so they only show as a hint of the shape rather than the whole distorted object. But in terms of "correcting" an ulltra wide shot and converting it into something closer to what the human eye sees... unfortunately there's no magic bullet or editing technique that I've discovered as yet.

[@vicwahbyphotography4866]

@@archiphoto I am principally and Interiors photographer, so unfortunately, it’s not possible for me to move back any further than the wall, lol. However, moving the edges of the photo toward the center is a technique I sometimes use. It should be possible to accomplish this with software much more successfully though. DXO’s Viewpoint claims to address the issue, but I have not found it very effective. Thanks for your reply.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

@@vicwahbyphotography4866 yeah, I'll often find myself mushed up at the back of cupboards photographing out into the room. I have viewpoint too and haven't had success either. My days of working in 3D computer graphics point to the fact that this "distortion" is unfortunately just an optical byproduct of trying to render 3d environments into 2d depictions. Frustratingly, it is what it is frustratingly.

[@gabo8322]

Hey Anthony. Great video as always. Can you please show how to create the architecture editing preset? Thanks.

[@archiphoto]

Hi Gabo. I'm getting a few requests coming in for that now so I'll see what I can do.

[@archiphoto]

Done Gabo. You can view it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maPIeYt7hN5jg80

[@gabo8322]

@@archiphoto Thank you very much!!!!!

[@kaell822]

please make a video on presets. Thanks

[@archiphoto]

Done. kzbin.info/www/bejne/maPIeYt7hN5jg80 I hope you like it.

[@jp6951]

That's a lot of work. If I had to do this I would render the scene without the lights. Then render with the lights, and finally render the lights on their own with an alpha channel. Then you use that alpha channel to cut out the lights from the rendering with the lights included. Now you can layer the image without the lights at the bottom. And the lights with alpha can float over the bottom layer. You can now morph the lights as needed, create copies, and mask out the areas that you don't want to change. But the purist in me does not like the morphing approach. Great architectural photographers never did any of this. The best approach is to set up your camera where these kinds of distortions are avoided. You need to move the camera as far back as possible and not use the extreme ultrawide lenses.

[@AnthonyTurnham]

Thanks for the comment. Yes absolutely you want to avoid taking a shot so wide if possible and yes get as far back as possible. This is for those cases where you can't. So for example the camera position is smoothed right back against the wall behind it and like that the full height of those lovely big windows wasn't featured. Hence the 16mm.

[@moochannel523]

You're Roose Bolton from Game of Thrones.

[@mrpmendonca]

Make the pic with 24mm… 😂

[@archiphoto]

Yeah, for sure distortion is minimised with 24mm vs 16mm but if you want to capture that big window and can't get any further back... 16mm is the way to go.