autoleveling photographs (Page 2): I do it in post, PS CS6, it's part of the crop tool, a small icon of a 'level.' You can stretch a line across, or down, a straight reference in the...

daplight Loc: Kansas

I do it in post, PS CS6, it's part of the crop tool, a small icon of a 'level.' You can stretch a line across, or down, a straight reference in the composition and release. Or, in the same tool, rotate the picture to your liking and release. It's always part of my cropping process.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

blackest wrote:

Hi I know there are a fair few cameras which record pitch and yaw of the camera when they take a photograph.

Does anyone know a tool that will read that data and level a photograph, I'm editing and cropping a bunch not taken by me and this is getting tedious.

Doing work that should not be necessary is never fun! I wonder though, what editing program you are using. I use Photoshop Elements, and I'm thinking that Photoshop likely has the same tool, the "straighten tool." With it, you can level any photo in about two seconds by just using the tool to draw a line along a roof edge, the actual horizon, or whatever line is in your photo that needs leveling.
Occasionally I will "do" photos my grandson (9 years old) has taken, and each and every one needs leveling. But I don't find it tedious at all, just part of processing and like I said, it takes a mere two seconds.

hrblaine

I dunno, I've been taking pictures for over 50 years, first 35mm, now digital and I've never had a need to level a shot. Maybe I'm a genius picture taker but I doubt it. You guys are just never happy unless you can find a new way to play with a photo. I use Elements sparely and when I was using 35mm in Korea, I just had them printed as is. Worked for me and still does only I print at home now.

Bill_de Loc: US

hrblaine wrote:

I dunno, I've been taking pictures for over 50 years, first 35mm, now digital and I've never had a need to level a shot. Maybe I'm a genius picture taker but I doubt it. You guys are just never happy unless you can find a new way to play with a photo. I use Elements sparely and when I was using 35mm in Korea, I just had them printed as is. Worked for me and still does only I print at home now.

Why don't you post a few and show people that we don't always need a lot of post processing to get a decent picture. It would be refreshing.

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BudsOwl Loc: Upstate NY and New England

blackest wrote:

Hi I know there are a fair few cameras which record pitch and yaw of the camera when they take a photograph.

Does anyone know a tool that will read that data and level a photograph, I'm editing and cropping a bunch not taken by me and this is getting tedious.

If you are using Lightroom in the develop module click on crop and then there is a auto click to level. Works pretty well.

oldbimmercoupe

all quite simple in adobe camera RAW - 2 clicks. you can correct horizontal, vertical or both. enjoy.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

blackest wrote:

Hi I know there are a fair few cameras which record pitch and yaw of the camera when they take a photograph.

Does anyone know a tool that will read that data and level a photograph, I'm editing and cropping a bunch not taken by me and this is getting tedious.

My Panasonic GH4 has a viewing mode that includes a leveling line. When the camera is level, it turns green. Otherwise, it's amber.

The crop tool in Lightroom works well. You click outside the crop, drag the angle arrows diagonally up or down, and a grid pops up to help you reference horizon lines in the frame.

I don't know of any software solutions that *automatically* level horizons in batch mode.

blackest Loc: Ireland

DavidPine wrote:

I have to shoot level and vertical. I use a Manfroto 405 on a tripod and polish in LR. No big deal.

If they were my photo's I wouldn't have a problem :) but unfortunately I didn't take them and it's up to me to straighten them out, no more than a couple of 1000 people will see them.

Ok just for fun lets see if anyone can level this :)

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hrblaine

Why don't you post a few and show people that we don't always need a lot of post processing to get a decent picture. It would be refreshing.

Just look at my Facebook page. That picture of Sonoma County didn't need anything done to it.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

In my d7200 there is a viewfinder option to show a grid. It helps with leveling. Hot shoe levels are great for tripod shots.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

blackest wrote:

If they were my photo's I wouldn't have a problem :) but unfortunately I didn't take them and it's up to me to straighten them out, no more than a couple of 1000 people will see them.

Ok just for fun lets see if anyone can level this :)

I would respectfully submit that this is not so much a leveling problem as it is a perspective problem!
Looking at the upright beam on the right, it is close to vertical.
I played with it just a bit (not much time, expecting company shortly), you can see for yourself if it's an improvement or not.
Method: Select all. From the menu, select distort. With the mouse-cursor drag out the top left and top right corners.
Unfortunately there is still distortion, but I think it may not be possible to correct it all.

PS - done in Photoshop Elements.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

My Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS60 has a built in level gauge. Helps a lot.

terry44 Loc: Tuolumne County California, Maui Hawaii

I tried also and got the same result. Perspective problem would be my thought also.

Morning Star wrote:

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blackest Loc: Ireland

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Thanks for showing how to do that, I tried distort perspective tool and cropped after in Affinity Photo.

Distort->Perspective (affinity Photo)

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David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

blackest wrote:

If they were my photo's I wouldn't have a problem :) but unfortunately I didn't take them and it's up to me to straighten them out, no more than a couple of 1000 people will see them.

Ok just for fun lets see if anyone can level this :)

How's this? I did it in LR CC using Transform.