#acnl-edit

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This is my first attempt to make an animated edit. Here’s an HD version. (Original photo submitted by uchidiva)

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Wait, how do you lense correct? Is it on an app or something?

If it’s an indoors shot you can just use photoshop’s Perspective tool, dragging a top corner to pinch in the image so lines that should be traveling straight up, such as side edge of the window, do so (perpendicular to the top of the picture). This might make your picture look too thin, so use the Transform tool to crunch it down a bit so your characters look reasonable.

Note that you’ll lose part of the picture when cropping it into a rectangle.If it’s an outside shot, fixing it is more complex because the whole would has a curvature which almost makes it like you’re looking through a fisheye lens. To fix this I use Adobe Lightroom’s Lens Correction settings which are used to undo fisheye in actual lenses. Here’s what the settings look like:

First I adjust the Vertical slider, which is the essentially same as using the Perspective tool in Photoshop, to again get those edges perpendicular. In this case, I’m using the left edge of the house as reference:

Next you can undo the fisheye by adjusting the Distortion slider. Moving it left adds fisheye and moving it right removes it. This time I’m going to move it all the way right, but watch the objects on the far right and left to make sure they don’t get too noticeably curved.

Finally, use the Aspect slider to stretch your image taller or wider to get the object proportions back to normal (the same as the “crunch” step in Photoshop):

Now the perspective of the image is a bit better, giving a better illusion of depth. If you want to straighten its sides out a bit you can mess around with the Warp tool in Photoshop.

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Autumn is finally here in Tropico. (Original photo submitted by uchidiva)

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Jamming to some sweet K.K. jams. (Original submitted by oneirodidae)

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Wow! I never expected to get 200 followers so quickly! I’m glad you like my edits. As a bit of thanks, here’s an inside look at the steps I take to bring the best I can out of Animal Crossing screenshots. I hope to make a proper tutorial soon, but honestly I’m still trying out new techniques and improving my methods. I’m waiting till I settle on a best way of doing edits.

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Here’s a GIF to demonstrate how significantly lens correction can add depth to your edits. Do you think it’s an improvement?

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The cobble paths turned out lovely in this edit. (Original photo submitted by oneirodidae)

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I was unhappy with how my previous edits of this submission from SKay Posts had muddled the colors of the photo, so I learned how to use Adobe Lightroom and redid it from scratch and even added a bit of lens distortion. For editing colors, sharpness, and noise reduction Lightroom got me better results than Photoshop so I highly recommend giving it a try!