№ 21 — Image straightening · Light & sky
Image straightening — verticals plumb, horizons level.
Correct tilted horizons, leaning walls, and lens distortion on listing photos. The room reads as itself, only geometrically true.
BeforeAfter
Image straightening · verticals corrected
The problem
The room is fine but the walls lean inward, the horizon tilts a degree off level, and the wide-angle lens has bent the doorway. Image straightening is the quiet pass that brings every photograph to the same geometric standard — plumb walls, level horizon, straight architectural edges — without touching the room itself.
The standard
- Vertical references (walls, columns, door and window frames) read as perfectly vertical.
- Horizontal references (floor line, ceiling, horizon, countertops) read as perfectly level.
- Lens distortion — barrel on wide angles, pincushion on long ones — is removed where the lens introduced it, not in the centre.
- Aspect ratio and resolution stay the same. No letterboxing, no black borders.
The handoff
Output at the same resolution and aspect ratio as the input, paired with the original for before/after comparison. The manifest notes which corrections were applied.
Companion tools
Image straightening is the geometric counterpart to photo enhancement — pair the two for a complete cleanup pass.
When Vesta runs it
Used inside the New Listing Kickoff run as a baseline pass — applied to every interior and exterior frame before any styled tool touches the photograph.
Field notes
Read the studio note on geometry that reads as geometry — verticals plumb without re-cropping the room out of the frame.
Where this lives
Part of the Light & sky entry in the tool catalog. When several tools in this group apply to the same listing, hand the listing to Vesta and let her plan the run.
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