Saigon Loc: Atlanta, GA

Thanks cascoly!

Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

Have straightened vert's and cropped. Not lost too much of the original.

Saigon Loc: Atlanta, GA

That looks great Pablo8! Thanks so much....

Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

Spent a couple more minutes adding small touches of colour and sharpness.

Saigon Loc: Atlanta, GA

Thanks Pablo8! It really shines....

cnewb

I use the Perspective Correction function in PAINTSHOP ULTIMATE all of the time.
I personally like the results.

cheineck Loc: Hobe Sound, FL

donmenges Loc: Rochester, NY

I opened your original in Camera Raw (even though it is a JPG). I used the "Geometry"
section to correct the verticals and then cropped it to get rid of the large (too heavy) columns on the left and right. I also had to do a bit of cloning in the lower left corner because of small empty space due to the crop.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Perhaps:

IDguy Loc: Idaho

This is best on distortion correction.

Nice work!

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Architectural photographers and their architect clients take a dim view of "truncated arches and amputated domes"! They hate it when I that!

So, you can have your cake and eat it too if you clone in more steps, extend the dome, and correct the perspective. I darkened the extensions so they are less obvious.

OK, it cheating but it's "artistic"! Shhhh. I won't tell His Holiness that we messed with his building!

Oh- check out the color saturation on the artwork over the door.

flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

Better!

Gketchum Loc: Bakersfield, Ca

I love your picture as is. The comments are all appropriate in answer to your original question, but as always are subjective based on individual taste. In the final analysis, do you want the angles leading up or not. Here is my take with no angles or columns and keeping the dome intact.

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MyPharo Loc: New Jersey

In Photoshop you can make this work better to fix this type distortion .

Open the distorted image as usual in Photoshop. Then, under the Filter menu, choose the Lens Correction option. The Lens Correction window then opens up with the Auto Correction tab active. This is the place where you might go to correct other distortions caused by lenses—say, the chromatic aberration or vignetting of a lesser quality wide-angle lens. You can also create lens-specific profiles based on your own lenses. But we’re interested in the second tab, for custom corrections.

In the Custom tab you can manually fix many of the things that can automatically be controlled in the Auto Correction tab—problems like color fringe, barrel distortion, vignetting and more. But if you scroll toward the bottom of the window you’ll see the set of sliders that were made for architectural photography: under the Transform heading, they are the Vertical Perspective and Horizontal Perspective controls.

To correct for keystoning distortion, simply click and drag the Vertical Perspective slider to the left, into the negative values. Keep an eye on the preview window to the left, and simply stop once the lines are again parallel.

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

yep, that's the method I would have used... nice.