Remove Extreme Fisheye

[Beth A Edwards]

I have thousands of images that were shot wide angle with fisheye, and I've tried everything I can think of to flatten the image (Adaptive Wide Angle / liquify / lens correction) and no matter what I have done, I have not been able to fix the fisheye bulge and keep lines straight.  Unfortunately I don't know what type of camera was used as I have been given .jpgs.  Does anyone have any suggestions??  I really appreciate the help!

I'm on Windows 10 with Photoshop version 24.3.0

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

One option to try is to use Perspective Warp. You can use the buildings to create a mesh then adjust.

There's no way to preserve everything (the foregroun road distortion is too extreme) but it gets you part of the way there with the trucks and buildings.

[Beth A Edwards]

Thank you so much! Your image looks so much better than what I've come up with.

[Jeff Arola]

Could they be multiple images stitched together to make a panorama?

It looks very much like some of the panos i've made from images that were taken with wide angle lenses

as far as the extreme distortion goes.

[Beth A Edwards]

Thanks Jeff for reviewing!  I am having a hard time getting the details of how the image was shot, but if I were to guess it is multiple images stitched together to make a panorama.

[Conrad_C]

Working with a merged panorama is probably harder to use with Adaptive Wide Angle. The way the AWA constraints are set up does seem to be designed around undoing the specific distortion from a single image taken with a certain lens geometry, as opposed to a projection synthesized from multiple images.