auto straighten not working

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July 30, 2022
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I've used auto-straighten successfully for year, but suddenly it's unable to straighten an obvious horizon. I just did a family portrait shoot on the beach and there's a clear horizon where the water meets the sky in almost every shot. When I hit Auto in the Crop tool, not only does it fail to straighten the horizon, it actually goes the OTHER way and makes things worse than they were!

Any ideas?

macOS

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Without seeing an example of the photos, we can only guess. Remember that Lightroom simply looks for lines, either horizontal lines or vertical lines. Maybe there is a clear vertical line, like a flag pole or something like that, that confuses Lightroom.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

DdeGannes

Community Expert

More tips are available at the link below.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/lightroom-classic/how-to/crop-straighten-photo.html

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

Could you please post a screen capture of an image that displays what you are experiencing while in the crop view.

Are you using LrC 11.4.1 the latest update?

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

It's likely you have "Auto-sync" activated, in that situation the correction you applied to the first selected image will be applied to all selected images.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.