Correcting Image Perspective

When you take pictures of tall objects, the resulting photographs may have perspective distortion— the objects seem to be leaning or angled. This distortion happens when the camera is at an angle to the subjects.

Fix perspective distortion with two tools:

Tool

How to Use

Applies to...

Deform tool

Drag the corner handles of a bounding box around an entire layer to interactively change the perspective.

See To use the Deform tool to correct perspective:.

The current layer only.

Raster layers only.

Perspective Correction tool

Drag a bounding box around a feature within the image (such as a building) that is supposed to be rectangular but is angled. Paint Shop Pro adjusts the perspective to make the selected feature rectangular.

See To use the Perspective Correction tool to correct perspective:.

The current layer only.

Raster layers only.