Photoshop offers a variety of tools for fixing photos with a skewed perspective. Some of these methods are more complicated than others, and today’s tutorial demonstrates an easy and very effective approach.

The quick tutorial below comes from our friends at VerticDesigns, a popular British-based YouTube channel dedicated to basic editing tips that deliver big results. Today’s instructor is using Photoshop CC 2024 to demonstrate how it’s done, but what you’ll learn works equally well older versions of Photoshop with Perspective options.

This four-minute lesson illustrates the tricks by fixing the perspective in an indoor image of a room, but you can do much the same thing with outdoor photos with skewed vertical or horizonal lines. The video begins by explaining how to use the ruler and a keyboard shortcut to match the background of one shot with another of the same scene to obtain a reference for creating one awesome photo.

The next step involves employing Photoshop’s Perspective Warp tool to display a grid on the initial shot. Doing his enables you to drag on the boxes in each corner of the grid to match the perspective of the back wall to the corners of the room. You then take the same approach to straighten the back edge of the floor.

Then, by adding additional grids, it’s easy to correct the perspective of both walls, the ceiling, and the floor of the image. You’ll see why it’s important that your grids extend beyond the outside of the canvas. When using the Warp tool to match a guideline it’s also essential to alternate between left and right adjustments until everything looks good.

Once these corrections are applied you may notice an empty area at the top of the photo. This problem is easily rectified with simple cropping, or by selecting this part of the frame and leaving the rest to Generative Fill.

The transformation is completed by selecting the dancer in the second image and dropping her into the one you just fixed. After watching the video take a look at the VerticDesigns YouTube channel where you’ll find many more simple tips and trick.

We also suggest that you check out another basic image-editing tutorial we posted that explains the important differences between Vibrance and Saturation, with tips on the best way to use these helpful color adjustment tools.

It almost goes without saying that the latest masking tools in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) are considered “essential” by many experienced landscape photographers. While these tools can be applied in a variety of ways, today you learn what one pro says are his five favorite tips for getting the job done quickly and effectively.

Instructor Matt Kloskowski is an expert at all things Adobe who says, “I spend most of my editing time using these tools.” In today’s 13-minute episode he demystifies the process while demonstrating several “hidden” techniques that anyone can employ for quick and precise masks. Kloskowski is working in Lightroom to demonstrate his tricks, but you can accomplish the same thing with ACR in Photoshop.

Kloskowski begins by applying a Linear Gradient to an impressive landscape scene with striking boulders and reflections in the foreground and impressive clouds in the sky. As you’ll see, Adobe has separated the various sections within Lightroom Classic’s masking panel. The problem is that the interface can appear rather cluttered at first glance. Turning on “Solo Mode,” which is off by default, really simplifies the workspace. All this takes is a right-click with the mouse.

Next Kloskowski makes a selection of the sky so he can pull back the highlights and make a few more adjustments without affecting other areas within the frame. He explains this trick by noting that you may come back to this photo at a later date and be somewhat dissatisfied by the initial changes you made.

The solution here involves the Amount slider at the top of the masking panel: simply moving it to the left or right enables you lessen or accentuate whatever you did earlier. Sliding it all the way to the left zeroes out all your previous enhancements and brings the image back to square one—just like “it never happened.”

The foregoing is just two of the five tips you’ll learn, so be sure to watch until the end. As Kloskowski admits, taken as a whole, “this isn’t the right way of editing, it’s just a different way of editing. So give these quick tricks a try and see how well they work for you. Kloskowski’s instructional YouTube channel is a great source of information designed to help elevate you post-processing skills, so be sure to take pay a visit.

On a related note, don’t miss the tutorial we posted earlier from another image-editing expert, explaining five powerful new Lightroom tricks that he says, “will change your life.”