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heatherc15475534
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June 4, 2022
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Batch Auto-straightening isn't working

  • June 4, 2022
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Good morning! I'm trying to auto straighten a bunch of photos, something I haven't had issues with in the past. I select my images, select 'auto sync', go to the crop tool and hit Auto to straighten. All of my images look like they've had an adjustment made (or LR thinks they have) but if I go back into the image and hit the auto straighten, more adjustments are made. This is frustrating as this used to work, so I don't think it's my technique. Any ideas on how I can make this functional again? Anyone else having this issue? TIA.

    Correct answer johnrellis

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    When you click the crop tool's Auto button, Auto Sync copies the computed crop angle from the current photo to all the other selected photos, so they all end up with the same angle.  It does not recompute the straighten angle for each selected photo.  I verified this behavior in LR 11.3.1 and 10.4.

     

    To batch-straighten all the selected photos, computing the correct angle for each photo separately, do this instead:

     

    1. Select all the photos and go to Develop.

     

    2. In the Transform panel, select Level and Constrain Crop.

     

    3. Click the Sync button and select Upright Mode only:

     

     

    And yes, you could also use Auto Sync, but it's dangerous, and for too many people, using it eventually ends in tears.

    4 replies

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    craig.carmean
    Participant
    January 3, 2024

    2024. Still paying a premium subscription price and Adobe can't give us the ability to batch correct. 

      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Genius
      January 4, 2024

      @craig.carmean, see this post for how to automatically level a batch of photos:

      https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/batch-auto-straightening-isn-t-working/m-p/13315154#M296862

      J
      JLavii
      Participant
      November 1, 2023

      Good day! I found this solution earlier this year and it had been working great for months. but then recently after these new updates, it hasnt been working right for each image any more. Is there a new solution or something I should be doing now?

       

      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Genius
      November 2, 2023

      Hmm, I just retested my steps above, and they worked in my test catalog with LR 13.0.1.  Do Help > System Info -- which exact version of LR are you running?

      Nicolas Gop
      Nicolas Gop
      Participant
      December 5, 2023

      Hi John! 
      there is not Shortcut for  Crop - Auto.  isn´t ?

      roc97007
      roc97007
      Known Participant
      November 1, 2022

      I'd like to suggest an enhancement request.  There's currently no way to auto-straighten a batch of photos.  Auto-straighten sometimes gets it wrong, but it would still be a net timesaver.  I deal with thousands of photos over multiple days, and the single most common buttons I press in Develop is "r" followed by clicking on the "Auto" button.  There doesn't even seem to be a keyboard shortcut for auto straighten, which although not ideal might be faster.

       

      Ideally, I would Select a bunch of photos, click "Auto" once, and have them all auto straighten, NOT to the same tilt as the first photo, but each straightened as if I did it individually.

       

         Ron

        roc97007
        roc97007
        Known Participant
        November 1, 2022
        I've read about the synchronize technique, but my understanding is that it adjusts the angle of the rest of the photos the same degree as the first photo, instead of recalculating the degree of straightening necessary for each photo. True or not true?

        The issue is that I might have 2500 photos all taken against the same set of vertical columns, (in a stadium, as it happens) but each photo might be off by a slightly different amount and in a different direction. Syncing the angle of a bunch of photos to the angle of the first photo is not a solution, as the corrections will be different for each one.

        Please advise.

        Ron
        johnrellis
        johnrellis
        Genius
        November 2, 2022

        This behaviour does vary depending on the exact method and has also I think varied between Lightroom Classic versions. I did some systematic testing a couple of years ago, for Auto tone (which is essentially the same problem, in that one may want sometimes to transfer the results of an analysis done with one image onto others (in a timelapse for example); other times to transfer just the requirement for such an analysis, and then to have that done separately per individual target image). At the time I tested that, AutoSync was causing an individual re-analysis but copy/Paste and Sync were not; and applying a preset which stated Auto Tone did cause an individual reanlysis. 

         

        I too would prefer Upright, over the levelling tool inside Crop - in combination with "Constrain" so the image always continues to fill its frame. I am amazed by how clever the "Auto" option of Upright is across the board, dealing gracefully with photos that were taken angled distinctly upwards or downwards, where requiring the "Level" or "Full" option in particular, may not give the desired result.

         

        Easiest to include all such matters (just selectively - not all the processing settings) within a preset which can then be invoked in the import screen, perhaps included in camera default processing, also applied subsequently at will.


        There is confusion in this thread: @roc97007  was referring to the Auto button of Crop (whose tooltip says "Automatically straighten the photo"), whereas @JohanElzenga was referring to the Transform panel. To eliminate any confusion (including among future readers),  here is the current behavior in LR 12.0.1:

         

        - When you Copy/Sync the results of Crop > Auto, the source photo's crop angle is copied to the target photos.

         

        - When you enable Auto Sync, Crop > Auto sets the target photos to have the same crop angle as the source photo.

         

        - When you Copy/Sync/apply a preset of the results of Transform > Auto, Level, Vertical, or Full and select just the option Transform > Upright Mode, the straightening is recalculated for each target photo.

         

        - Similarly, when you enable Auto Sync, Transform > Auto, Level, Vertical, or Full will be recalculated for each target photo.

         

         

          johnrellis
          johnrellisCorrect answer
          Genius
          June 4, 2022

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          When you click the crop tool's Auto button, Auto Sync copies the computed crop angle from the current photo to all the other selected photos, so they all end up with the same angle.  It does not recompute the straighten angle for each selected photo.  I verified this behavior in LR 11.3.1 and 10.4.

           

          To batch-straighten all the selected photos, computing the correct angle for each photo separately, do this instead:

           

          1. Select all the photos and go to Develop.

           

          2. In the Transform panel, select Level and Constrain Crop.

           

          3. Click the Sync button and select Upright Mode only:

           

           

          And yes, you could also use Auto Sync, but it's dangerous, and for too many people, using it eventually ends in tears.

            heatherc15475534
            heatherc15475534Author
            Participant
            June 6, 2022

            Thanks so much, I'll try this!

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