Help with Straighten

phog

I know I should be able to do this but I've lent my PS element book to a friend si I can't look it up.

How do I straighten this picture of a window - the top appears to be falling away from the viewer? I want to make it look like I took the picture from directly in front of the window rather than being a few feet lower than the actual window.

http://photos4.pix.ie/C8/36/C83631E28DE2450D800B2FE50889D66B.jpg

Calina

What version of elements do you have?

phog

Calina wrote: »

What version of elements do you have?

PSE 5

Calina

There is a straighten tool in PSE 5 however it's not going to do what you want to do; it's my opinion that what you want to do isn't really possible.

The perspective of the photograph doesn't lend itself to it. You were slightly below and slightly to the right when you took the photograph, so you are angularly wrong to get what you want to do. You can see this by looking at the walls surrounding the window.

You can alleviate some of the impact by rotating the image very slightly to the right but it will be impossible to fully straighten the image because you were not dead centre taking it. After that, you'll have to consider just reconstructing the window frame to clone stuff in that should be there and clone stuff out that should not be there for a photograph. I have not got the time to attempt it. There is no easy solution.

phog

Calina, thanks for that - not really what I wanted to hear but that's life. I might mess around with it next week if I get the time.

Phog.

5uspect

Can you free transform in PSE? That'll do it for you.