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10/17/2011 11:08:37 PM · #1 |
I have a couple of pictures that have extreme horizon to one side.
I want to keep all the picture but I want to straighten the horizon, I have NO clue as to how to do this.
Is there a way to do this without losing any of the picture, or am I screwed???
Here is an example:
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10/17/2011 11:14:18 PM · #2 |
About the only thing I can suggest is to rotate it and clone in some extra water and sky in the corners. The sky is a nice even tone, and the water is an easily cloned pattern. Shouldn't be hard at all.

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10/17/2011 11:15:01 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by JulietNN: I have a couple of pictures that have extreme horizon to one side.
I want to keep all the picture but I want to straighten the horizon, I have NO clue as to how to do this. |
You can make a new larger image in PS and copy over the image in layers, rotate it to a jaunty angle and then clone in enough area to get the new crop you want. If you work slowly and are careful, it ought to work with this sort of image. |
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10/18/2011 12:16:59 AM · #4 |
Or ... leave it alone so that people will find it "artistic" ... ;-) |
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10/18/2011 09:12:00 AM · #5 |
If you rotate as Yo_Spiff says, but then use the free transform tool in photoshop (or similar in other packages) which will allow you to stretch the edges out over the blank white canvas. If this distorts the boat too much you could always clip it out into another layer first then paste it back over. The blank white canvas will be a much smaller area then to cover by way of cloning. Like Steve says, the sky and water are ideal patterns for cloning. This (really bad edit) was done in less than 5 mins... poor cloning I know but I used free transform to fill in the sky and sea to the right hand corners, just needed some quick cloning on left hand corners. I wasn't trying to do a good edit, just to example what can be done in mere minutes with no skill.
If you want to keep the dimensions of free space it shouldn't be too hard to spend a little time creating new layers from the sea and sky and blending them over a larger canvass.
Message edited by author 2011-10-18 09:13:49. |
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10/18/2011 09:26:35 AM · #6 |
Awesome, you guys rock,
Thank you so much for explaining how to do it, I am off to try it all out!!!! |
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10/18/2011 11:07:57 AM · #7 |
Does your ruler in CS5 help you do this? I have straightened, albeit not so extremely, photos in CS5 and when I hit "straighten" at the top, I don't have the whiter areas around the outside like you normally would when a photo gets rotated. But, you don't need me with all of these great suggestions. :) |
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10/18/2011 11:27:31 AM · #8 |
Sweetheart, I need all the help I can get most times! There are people on here that have vast knowledge, or like me, who knows one or two things but know how to do those things. Constantly learning something new from here, and you can not beat the advice from these guys!
Heck, I didn't even know there was a ruler lol |
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10/18/2011 11:34:36 AM · #9 |
Juliet, That can,t be true you have smashin' images on here and come very high on my list of favs. |
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10/18/2011 11:42:26 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by lawrysimm: If you rotate as Yo_Spiff says, but then use the free transform tool in photoshop (or similar in other packages) which will allow you to stretch the edges out over the blank white canvas. If this distorts the boat too much you could always clip it out into another layer first then paste it back over. The blank white canvas will be a much smaller area then to cover by way of cloning. Like Steve says, the sky and water are ideal patterns for cloning. This (really bad edit) was done in less than 5 mins... poor cloning I know but I used free transform to fill in the sky and sea to the right hand corners, just needed some quick cloning on left hand corners. I wasn't trying to do a good edit, just to example what can be done in mere minutes with no skill.
If you want to keep the dimensions of free space it shouldn't be too hard to spend a little time creating new layers from the sea and sky and blending them over a larger canvass. |
If you have CS4 or higher then I would suggest using the Content Aware Fill. This is the kind of picture it was made for. Just select the area in question then Right Click > Fill > Content Aware. It doesn't always do a good job but a lot of the times it gets you close enough where you can fix it with a little cloning. I also find that it tends to work better if you don't select a very large area to fill. You can often get it to work perfectly if you do smaller selections at a time. |
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10/18/2011 01:03:29 PM · #11 |
If you have CS4 or higher then I would suggest using the Content Aware Fill.
CS5 !! |
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10/18/2011 01:20:28 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Tiny: If you have CS4 or higher then I would suggest using the Content Aware Fill.
CS5 !! |
LOL |
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