[Instructormovie, I'll show you
how to correct this distorted horizon.
Zb3And we'll also balance out the luminous levels
along with the colors,
so the image doesn't appear as washed out.
Now, one way that Adobe recommends you correct
distorted panoramas is to go up to the Filter menu
and choose Adaptive Wide Angle.
But for this particular image, it just doesn't work.
it goes ahead and increases the bulge
v&associated with that horizon line,
which is obviously not what we want.
Now we will be seeing more of this filter later.
But for now, I'm just going to go ahead and cancel out.
And that's because where panoramas are concerned
I prefer to correct the distortion
using the Transform tool inside Camera Raw.
And you can do that by going to the Filter menu
and choosing Camera Raw Filter.
Or you have the shortcut of Control + Shift + A,
or Command + Shift + A on a Mac.
a!,And then, I'll just go ahead and zoom in
on that horizon by clicking on it,
and I'll go up to my Transform tool right here,
in this horizontal toolbar, and I'll click on it.
Next, what you want to do is draw a couple of lines,
starting with one along the horizon, like so. !
And notice that the horizon dips up into the right, "
which is obviously not what we want. #
We want it to be nice and straight. $
Now, initially, nothing is going to happen. %
And that's because if you take a look &
X2at this little info item, '
it's telling you that you need to draw two or more (
guides to straighten the horizontal and vertical lines. )
And so I'll go ahead and draw a line down this tree. *
f9#And you can tell the difference +
between what's supposed to be horizontal ,
because the horizontal stuff is green, .
and the vertical stuff is purple. /
And then I'll release, and notice, just like that, 0
Camera Raw goes ahead and straightens the image. 1
Now, if you're troubled by the fact 2
[C,that some of these trees are now leaning 3
the opposite direction, then you can draw some 4
more vertical lines if you want. 5
But that has a pretty bad effect 6
where this particular image is concerned. 7
And so, I'll go ahead and press Control + Z 8
or Command + Z on a Mac to undo that change. 9
}M3All right, I'm going to zoom out a little bit, :
P]perhaps not that far. ;
And I'll scroll down as well. <
And now, let's correct some of the colors =
inside the image by switching back to the Zoom tool, >
urS,which you can get by pressing the Z key, ?
and then I'll click in the Exposure value @
U:and press Shift + Down Arrow to take it down to -0.5. A
X!I'll take the Contrast value, B
X1this is all subjective by the way, up to 33. C
I'm going to crank the Highlights value down D
to its absolute minimum of -100, E
which is going to create some pretty choppy transitions F
but I ended up liking the effect. G
And then, I'll take the Shadows value down to -20. H
d0Next, I'll tab forward to the Clarity value I
and take it up to +50. J
g(I'll take the Vibrance value to +33, K
h)and I'll raise the Saturation to +22. L
tj-Next, I'll switch over to the Detail tab, M
and I'll go ahead and zoom in on the image N
so that you can see that the details O
wo are in pretty garbage shape. P
|p2And that's because a few of these photographs Q
are a little bit blurry. R
s<Apparently I had the camera in motion most of the time. S
And to compensate for things a little bit anyway, T
I'm going to crank the Sharpening value all the way U
fx$up to 150, which is the maximum. V
And then, because that makes things look quite a bit worse, W
I'll take the Detail value down to 0. X
\~>And while things are looking a little bit impressionistic Y
when we're zoomed in, Z
they reconcile pretty nicely from a distance. [
All right, now, I'll advance to the next tab, \
which is HSL / Grayscale, and with the Hue panel ]
y*up on screen, I'll go ahead and select ^
and then I'll drag inside this area of green right here `
to the right in order to make it even more green. a
And in the end, I took the green's value up to +30, b
and I took the yellow's value up to +20, like so. c
And that gives us some very green grass, d
because after all, e
n:7it's grass that's holding this terracing together. f
At least most of the terracing, g
you can see that a few areas here and there have collapsed. h
All right, now, we've got some gunk in this photo i
that I want to get rid of. j
|a0For example, there's this stick right here. k
And so, I'll go ahead and grab my Spot Removal tool. l
And notice that my Size value's cranked up to 14. m
You can see the Feather and Opacity values as well. n
And now I'm just going to paint down this stick like so, o
and then release. p
And it looks like Camera Raw's doing a pretty good job q
But I'm going to move it a little bit closer s
so that we can get rid of these lumps, t
and if you want to check things out without the interface u
items in the way, then press the V key, v
or turn on the Show Overlay checkbox. w
And that looks pretty good, x
not exactly perfect but it'll do. y
All right, now, I'll zoom out z
XBand we've got this trash over here that I want to get rid of. {
jAAnd so, I'll just go ahead and paint over this guy, like so. |
And then, so I can see what's getting source, }
because this is no good. ~
I'll press the V key in order to bring back the widgets. 
`7And I'll go ahead and drag this green source point
bup and to the left,
and then I'll paint over this garbage as well.
And I think I actually like its source point.
I'll go ahead and press the V key
in order to hide the interface,
and sure enough, that looks great.
And because that takes care of our work
inside Camera Raw, I'll go ahead and click OK
in order to accept those changes.
All right, now, if I were to zoom in here,
Ayou can see that this horizon is still bending a little bit.
And to make that more obvious, I'll press Control + R
or Command + R in a Mac to bring out the rulers.
And I'll drag a horizontal guide downward like so.
So that we can see what straight actually looks like.
And so notice that the horizon is bending up in the middle.
And so what that means is we still have a little bit
Fof barrel distortion.
What we need to do is apply some pincushioning,
and the easiest old school way to pull that off
]4is to go up to the Filter menu, choose Distort,
and then choose Spherize, which we normally think
of enhancing barrel distortion,
but you can apply negative values as well.
So I'll just go ahead and choose Spherize.
And notice that I've already dialed in
an Amount value of -10%.
To see what that looks like, just go ahead
and drag your preview a bunch of times
until you can see the horizon.
And so if you click and hold, you'll see the before view,
and then if you release,
you'll see the much flatter after view.
And so to apply that change, just go ahead and click OK.
And notice that the horizon has dipped down.
To move the guide so you can see if you've nailed it,
press and hold the Control key, or the Command key on a Mac
to get the Move tool on the fly,
and then just drag that guideline down like so.
AAnd you can see that we now have an absolutely flat horizon.
At which point, we can get rid of the guide
just by going to the View menu, and choosing Clear Guides.
Or if you loaded the keys, you have that shortcut
And then, you can hide the rulers
by pressing Control + R or Command + R on a Mac.
And now, I'll press Shift + Tab
to hide my right-side panels,
and I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0
on a Mac to center my zoom.
And so to give you a sense of what we've been
able to accomplish, this is the image as it appeared
\<at the onset of the movie, and this is the dramatically
enhanced version of that same panorama,
thanks to two smart filters working together,
the recently-introduced Camera Raw filter,
and the very old school Spherize,
here inside Photoshop.