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ArchCam Support

Keep buildings upright. Keep people looking natural.

Choose only the correction your subject needs. ArchCam applies it automatically and processes everything privately on your iPhone.

Choose the correction for your subject

Each correction solves a different problem. Leaving every correction on can make the photo less natural.

Building or room
Verticals + Level. Use Verticals when pointing up or down while facing the subject approximately head-on.
Group photo or selfie
Wide + Level. Use Wide when faces or figures near the edges look stretched. It is useful with any camera or zoom where edge stretching is visible.
Everyday scene
Level. It keeps the horizon horizontal without changing perspective.
Document or flat surface
Top-Down. Use it with the rear camera for documents, plans, drawings, rugs, tabletops, and floor patterns photographed from above.
Deliberately tilted photo
Turn Level off. ArchCam will preserve the angle you chose.

How the corrections work

Verticals corrects building perspective

ArchCam uses camera direction and lens information to calculate a shift-style correction automatically. It corrects converging upright lines caused by pointing the camera up or down. It does not correct side-to-side perspective from photographing a wall at an angle.

Wide reduces edge stretching

Wide photos can stretch faces, figures, circles, and other familiar shapes near the frame edges. Wide uses a fisheye projection to preserve their proportions more naturally. Because it may curve straight lines, it is better suited to people and organic shapes than architecture.

Level keeps the horizon horizontal

Level automatically corrects camera roll. It is useful for most everyday photos unless you want a deliberately angled composition.

Top-Down corrects flat subjects

Top-Down straightens rectangular and patterned surfaces photographed from above with the rear camera.

Preview or Outline mode

Preview
Shows enabled corrections live while you compose. It processes every camera frame, so it typically uses more battery and may create more heat.
Outline
Uses the native camera view and marks the future adjusted frame with a white boundary. It uses less processing.

Both modes apply the same enabled corrections to the saved photo.

Capture and saving

Choose front or rear cameras, pinch to zoom, and optionally adjust exposure and white balance. Tap the shutter or press either iPhone volume button.

ArchCam always saves the adjusted photo. In Settings, you can keep a second uncorrected copy and choose HEIF or JPEG output.

Permissions

Troubleshooting

Contact support

Include your iPhone model, iOS version, ArchCam version, and a short description of what happened. Do not send private photos unless they are necessary to explain the issue.

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