Hi,
Can anyone please guide me to a tutorial on how to correct the distortion brought about by sunlight on part of the church. I have more than one photo with this problem.
Thanks
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I’m not sure what you mean by distortion “caused by sunlight”. The image is perfectly exposed, as far as I can tell.
However, if you mean the vertical edges being tilted in, this is simply parallax caused by the vertical position of the camera in relation to the vertical centre of the building.
This is easily corrected using the ViewPoint “force parallels” part of PhotoLab…
It takes all of thirty seconds 
@Joanna, just a reminder that recent versions of PhotoLab have perspective built-in without the need for a separate ViewPoint license, although I’m not sure about the extent of the perspective features that are available without ViewPoint.
Mark
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Sorry I’m not technical. I am asking whether it is possible to have the church facade one color rather than the sun exposed part yellow and the in-shade areas brown.
You might try using a hue mask in local adjustments …
Here I selected the darker bits of the church facade - and erased any mask from the rest of the image.
Then I increased the exposure of the shadows in the masked area to 100. That gave me a rather undersaturated result, so I whacked up the saturation to 33 for the mask…
I also suspect it would have been easier to use the luminosity mask that you can use if you have FilmPack installed. But I don’t know whether you have that license,
HTH
Thanks I can try to download the trial version. I’m away and will give it a try over the weekend.
It’s my understanding that VP adds the “ReShape” tool & Volume Deformation.
The question was, “can PhotoLab do it?”; to which the answer is yes…
… using a luminosity mask, altering exposure and saturation.
But that still leaves the question, Why? In this particular image, you end up with an impossible impression of where the sun was, with the shadows, that should have been there, missing.
Far better to have been there earlier in the day, when the sun would have shone straight down the courtyard. But, even that, would have removed a lot or relief and modelling caused by the shadows on the rest of the building.
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While I agree about being there at the best time, I have been too late too many times in my own life … and, as I expected, Lumimosity Masking - in expert hands - has given a better result.
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John, I was referring specifically to the perspective tool. I’m not certain, but if I recall correctly some of its features are not available in the PhotoLab built-in version without a ViewPoint license.
Mark
Yes - it’s my understanding that VP adds the “ReShape” tool & Volume Deformation … Otherwise, I believe all else is included in PL.
John,
I think you missed my point, I’m not referring to the other tools in ViewPoint like the reshape tool or the volume deformation tool. I’m referring specifically to the perspective tool itself which has several features. Unfortunately since I have an activated license for ViewPoint I can’t see how the perspective tool in PhotoLab differs when there is no ViewPoint license. If I recall correctly, when perspective was implemented in PhotoLab without the need of a ViewPoint license there was a difference.
Mark
Yes - understood, Mark.
I believe they’re all included in PL, as standard … A VP license just adds the extras I mentioned (as I understand it).
Thank you everyone.
I am not a photographer in my spare time, I’m a long distance walker with two phones and a battery pack. And the little place this was taken at is up a really steep place (in Sicily for anyone who is curious).
I have many photos of this type taken simply cause a scene happened to strike my eye and I am not to tired to pull out the phone and stop to snap it.
This thread has told me that with the Photolab and the right talent this photo is fixable…
Thank you again. I need to find me a YouTube series to learn a bit the tool.
A thank you photo - not recent. Given the form factor I think I might have used the phone’s panorama feature.
Umm, except it didn’t need fixing. It’s fine just as it is in your original post for all the reasons that @Joanna has explained to you already.
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