Sorry to ask but I can't find the answer online. When I take a photo of a plate and cup on saucer next to it my plate and saucer lean to the right and left. That looks horrible. How can I correct that? I do have Lightroom 6 and Affinity Photo but can't work out how to get these plates, saucers, cups straight.

Do you have an image to illustrate what you mean?  If you are talking about perfectly straight lines, then you have to shoot it straight on.

The further away you are, with a longer lens, the straighter it will be.

The plate on the left side looks as if it's slipping off the table to the left and the saucer with cup on the right is also not straight. I don't have a wide angle lens. It's just the zoom lens that's fixed to my camera.

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I think I have deleted that photo. I didn't want to give it to microstock. I picked up a magazine from a supermarket and there is an image with 2 water glasses. They are also not straight.

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Hello, I just checked. The photo I was talking about I have deleted but I have a similar one. I have attached it. This plate is only very slightly leaning to the right. On the photo with 2 plates they were leaning to the sides much more. A man said it can be corrected in Photoshop but he didn't mention how. This photo is not edited yet. I only quickly converted it to a Jpeg. What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much for your help. It means a lot to me.

Can I send this photo after editing to agencies or is it too much leaning to one side? As I said, when I use two, like a plate on the left and a saucer plus cup on the right side it's even worse.

This is how optics work. It's physics, you can't magically change it without moving further away. Your zoom lens probably goes from wide-angle to normal, so yes, it is a wide-angle lens. It wouldn't be any different with an expensive DSLR.

If you are close to two objects and point to the middle they will both look like they're leaning out to the sides. If you move the camera further away and zoom in, this will not be as visible.

If you want everything to be perfect you can take two pictures and put them together in Photoshop. This is how you battle depth-of-field issues when you have to be close, but want everything in focus. You take several pictures with different focus points and put them together in Photoshop.

I don't have Photoshop. I use Affinity Photo but mainly Lightroom.. I really want to get that right when I take the photo. I don't have much space where I am taking the photos but a huge window front. I can only free up another 50cm. People who do microstock have to be ready multi talented. You have to be food stylist, photographer and editing genius all in one. 

You have to be food stylist, photographer and editing genius all in one.

Yes, which is true for most studio photography. It is not easy to create "perfect" pictures - it takes a lot of skill and work. Post-processing is a big part and if you want to get serious I would get Photoshop. Lightroom only goes so far when it comes to editing details.

Affinity will do just fine.
And like increasingdifficulty posted, you should stack images when you have dof issues.

Hello Polar, thank you very much. I just tried it out and it worked. I had to crop a lot. I worked on the photo with one plate but with one right and one left it wouldn't work I guess.

When I have a photo with 2 plates one is leaning to the right and the other to the left. Then rotation won't work. But it worked great on the photo with one plate.

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Did you only use the rotation slider? The distortion slider would probably be more useful for something that needs to be adjusted on both sides. The vertical and horizontal sliders might also be useful.

Once you develop the image and are in the Photo persona, you can go to Filters>Distort>Perspective for additional options for adjusting both sides of the image. (I find this useful for adjusting leaning buildings.) This list also includes the lens correction filter, similar to what you have in the Develop persona.

You need to use a delicate touch with all of these tools to avoid making things look unnatural. Depending on the nature of the original shot, you won't necessarily get a perfect result but you can usually get closer to what you want.

ETA: if you think you're going to have to use these tools, it would be a good idea to allow enough room around the outer edges of the image while shooting to permit the inevitable cropping that occurs.

Warping I have not tried. I didn't get that idea. I will try that. Thank you. My tripod goes up to 60.24 inch. Is that high enough? If I take a shot directly from above I do it handheld but have to use f5.6. I so don't want to increase the ISO. I use ISO80 but still get noise. I was thinking of buying a tripod with an arm that can reach over the table but they are very heavy. Yesterday I checked for ice cream sundaes on DT and was totally shocked to see that so many really good images didn't get one download. Some had 1 download in 4 years. Is it all worth it the expenses and time.... I wanted to make one and take a photo of one. Now I won't. 6004 mango juice images. They don't need any more. Maybe food photography is a bad idea for microstock. I am astonished that they are still taking photos. Aren't buyers frustrated to go through 6004 mango juice images....?