Wide-angle lenses are very popular nowadays, as they allow taking truly impressive photos. Unfortunately, they also have some disadvantages. When taking photos of urban landscapes using wide-angle lenses, alignment distortions may appear, especially when an improper aspect angle is involved. These perspective distortions can ruin a photo that otherwise would have been an almost perfect work of art. Anyway, there’s still a solution, and its name is “Perspective Pilot”.
Perspective Pilot is a neat and lightweight utility that lets you correct the perspective distortions in your photos. A bit of photo margin cropping would also be probably required after this tool finishes its job, but overall, it produces surprisingly good correction results. Its main advantage is the fact that it is truly easy-to-use, self-explanatory and straightforward. Its intuitive interface and the fact that it provides some really handy and comprehensive video demonstrations of how to use its functions make this application really simple to use even for complete beginners. Those demonstrations can be played right at the start of the application and are clear and comprehensive enough to help anyone understand how Perspective Pilot can be effectively used.
I also like about this tool the fact that it can be used both as a stand-alone application and as a plug-in for the famous Adobe Photoshop graphic suite. In conclusion, Perspective Pilot is a really nice utility that offers undeniable help to anyone in need of correcting perspective distortions from photos of urban landscapes.
v2.1 [Dec 2, 2008]
* fixed alpha-channel error in Plug-in mode.
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