Can you correct skew or perspective with Photos?

For the Mac I am using Luminar to correct Perspective or DxO Perspective.

Luminar can be called a s a Photo Editing Extension, and DxO Perspective via the External Editors Extension or in High Sierra directly from Photos using "Edit With".

Photos does not support perspective correction or lens correction. And none of the available photo editing extensions does that so far. Until one of the third party developer teams will provide an app extension, that can do that, you will have to correct the photos before importing them to Photos.

Well this is another useful tool that has been stripped from Apple apps.

Perspective correction has never been possible in iPhoto, and even Apple's professional photo application Aperture did not support it. It always required a plug-in.

I was able to correct it in iPhoto with the keystone tool while cropping.

I was also able to do it with the rudimentary editing tools in iWeb.

After a little research I discovered there is a way to do it in Photos currently, but it is a $10 app extension for purchase in the app store called "Perspectives Photos Extension". The app has not been reviewed or rated yet, so I am hesitant to drop $10. I may just export the photos to my old G5 iMac and use the tools I know can do it for free.

I was able to correct it in iPhoto with the keystone tool while cropping

There is no keystone tool per se in iPhoto. Are you calling the Straighten feature in iphoto the keystone tool?

If that's the case then Photos has the same tool in the Crop window:

Have you used Photoshop as an external editor in iPhoto? That is how I corrected the keystone effect in in iPhoto.

Right now I simply export the photo and then use DxO Perspective. It is very intuitive to use and worth the money. I hope, it will soon be available as a photo editing extension, like the DxO OpticsPro for Photos extension.

Jeremy Dunham wrote:

Well this is another useful tool that has been stripped from Apple apps.

Not at all

No Apple product has ever included this feature and none has ever included a KeyStone correction

LN

DxO perspective, that looks helpful.
Now I see where the confusion was coming in after looking at your screen captures; I held off updating iPhotos from a very early version (7.x) and never noticed the loss of the feature in the short time I used 9.x.

Checkout "External Editors for Photos". I just tried it and it's awesome! Allows you to use ANY photo editing software on your computer to adjust photos in Photos. Worked like a charm. Check it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/external-editors-for-photos/id1074021862?mt=12

The App VSCO (available on iPhone and iPad) allows you to do this. I used it to fix a skew problem with this image.

Sorry - just noticed you said you didn't want to do it on your phone so I guess this doesn't help any!

hi, you might have discovered a fix since it has been a few years. but I've noticed the same thing. HOWEVER OneNote when I'm taking photos of slides during presentations i can edit it on the fly cropping to each corner and it adjusts perspective for me when it inserts it into a note. Maybe have a play with that. not perfect. I used to use Photoshop elements for it but haven't had that since i bought into the apple franchise. Still looking for a decent photo editing app.

Photos is a good editing app and as posted previously in this thread using the External Editors for Photos extension you can use any editor you own from Photos including PSE

LN

There is an app called Perspectivize! that offers a photos extension to correct image perspective.

Perspectivize looks good, but is only for iOS. What's there for OSx?