Not a long time ago I found a trick on how to make a photo of a building much better. You know when you see a beautiful object and want to snapshot it in the way you see it, but then when you check your phone you realize that perspective is wrong? Instead of a perfect rectangle or square windows, you get something reminding you a trapeze? Very beautiful, right?
One type of my photos on Instagram is facades I see in the city. I love London architecture and it’s literally a heaven for such facade and display windows freaks like me. As much as I wanted to be perfect in this style of photos, I was struggling for a looong time to take a good shot.
The only possible workaround I could think of was to get a bit higher to take a photo or to lift my iPhone a meter up. Carrying a chair everywhere obviously wasn’t an option 🙂 I also wasn’t interested in Photoshop editing, because it’s just too much hustle and I wanted a simple solution.
And then I found it! An application that can perfectly fix perspective, horizon and even lens distortion. It’s called SKRWT and it does magic, believe me. It costs only $1.99 and it’s the best purchase I ever made on App Store.
Let’s see how it works.
I like taking photos of coffee shops, especially it’s exterior. And every time I do it, all the vertical lines are a mess. These are before and after photos:
Even though the first photo is ok, I prefer to have vertical lines parallel. In this case, I only had to adjust one thing and press Save.
Another example is a cute colorful house in Chelsea.
When I was taking this photo there were other girls doing the same thing, so I wasn’t able to take a good position in order not to screw the lines of the building. Luckily, SKRWT could fix this too.
Step 1
Step 2
Before and after. Yeay! It’s ready to be shown on Instagram! (I posted different crop though) .
What is you favorite tool to edit photos? What is your lifesaver? I would love to hear from you, see you in the comments!
P.S. This trick is also applicable for Android users.