I find trying to correct perspective in Elements a little tricky; you end up with an image that's either squashed or stretched horizontally (or, alternatively, stretched or sqashed vertically).
If you think of the perspective correction as distorting your original rectangle into a trapeziod, you don't want either the base or the top of the trapezoid to stay the same; what you really want is for one of them to be stretched, and the other to be squashed, and some intermediate line (usually somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 way up the picture) to be left unchanged. You can go to great lengths to compute exactly what you want, or you can simply change the image size anisotropically (after applying perspective correction) to get an image that looks right. Resizing the image shouldn't lose any part of the contents. (And, as Paul pointed out, rotate to get your central verticals truly vertical before applying the perspective transform). I do like the colours of the light on the stone. On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:33:22AM -0500, Brian Walters wrote: > Yes - I noticed that too. However, trying to stretch it vertically > tends to lose the top spire. > > Thanks for the comment, John. > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > Western Sydney, Australia > > > > Quoting John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > It looks as though you've squashed it a little vertically > > in the process of correcting the perspective. > > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:38:11AM -0500, Brian Walters wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I quite liked this photo of afternoon light on the sandstone > > walls of > > > an old church in western Sydney. Unfortunately it suffered from > > > converging verticals so I had a go at correcting the > > perspective. > > > > > > It looks OK but perhaps it could have been done better. > > > > > > The adjusted image is at the top of the following link page and > > the > > > original image is at the bottom: > > > > > > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/PAW/thomas-paw.html > > > > > > > > > > > > Comments and suggestions welcome. Technical details available > > by > > > clicking the "i" icon. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Get a spam free email account - Visit http://www.bluebottle.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
