Auto Horizon Straightening in Crop Module for Wedding Photography

Question

Hello Adobe Lightroom Team,I am new to this community, but I have been working with Lightroom Classic in my wedding photography workflow. One challenge I face every day is that there is no auto-straighten option directly in the Crop module.For wedding work, horizons and straight lines are very important, but unlike architectural photography (where we use Transform), in weddings we constantly need quick horizon corrections. Every time I crop, I have to manually adjust, because the camera angle naturally shifts from 11 o’clock to 1 o’clock during shooting, rarely staying perfectly at 12 o’clock.Is there an existing feature I may be missing, or is it truly not available? If not, I would strongly suggest adding this as an important feature request, an automatic horizon straightening (based on image analysis) inside the Crop tool. It would save a huge amount of time for event photographers.Thank you for considering this. I would love to know if others in the community also need this.Best regards,SadikWedding Photographer

Conrad_C · Answer

You also have options in the Transform panel. Try clicking the Level button in the Upright section. The demo below shows using the Auto button in the Crop & Straighten tool compared to clicking different Upright buttons in the Transform panel.

Because you are dealing with viewing angle changes, you should also experiment with the various automatic Transform / Upright buttons such as Auto, Vertical, and Full. They can give you a choice of solutions for an image, because a specific method might not work best for all images. Their solutions can depend on what visual straightening cues are in the image. They work better if there are lines in the image that are perfectly horizontal or vertical. They can be thrown off by objects that aren’t quite right, such as a prominent table that isn’t parallel to the wall.

The Upright buttons can sometimes give you a better solution than Crop rotation because the Transform options can rotate the image on three axes to compensate for the variety of distortions you can get, including keystoning, when you shoot a range of viewing angles. The Crop tool rotates on only one axis, Transform offers that (Rotate) plus Vertical and Horizontal rotation too.

The Guided option often works best, but it’s a lot more work: You have to draw vertical and horizontal guides.

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