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This tutorial covers the subject of correcting converging verticals

Converging verticals is the distortion we see in our pictures when we use a wide angle lens and tilt the camera upwards to capture our subject. It most obviously shows itself when we photograph buildings because we can rarely get far enough away to be able to keep the camera level.

This distortion is generally something we would rather not have in our pictures, but sometimes it can be used to our advantage for creative effect. Here though we are going to remove it and show you how powerful the tools are within Photoshop to correct the problem. We also introduce you to Photoshop's rulers and guides in this tutorial, along with layers and transform tools.

If you look at our starting image below you can see just what we mean when we speak of converging verticals.

However, the tools of Photoshop allow us to correct this. Take a look at other examples below as this first example is rather extreme and probably not typical of the sort of thing we would need to correct.

If you look carefully at the starting image below you will see that we do not have any good upright or horizontal lines in this image.

However, after a little work in Photoshop we can correct them all and the end result is a far better picture.