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| A wonky quilt - at least so it seems, in the photograph |
These instructions use the full version of Photoshop on a PC. Hilary gave me a demo of how easy it is to un-warp a wonky quilt (but see the sting-in-the-tail below...). Apologies for not adding arrows to point to the part of the screen being discussed - this is something I still need to learn how to do ... Hopefully by clicking on the images to enlarge them, you can see what's going on -
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| Select "Show Grids" (via the "view extras" square at centre of top menu bar), then "Select All" (ctrl-A) |
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| the location of the "view extras" option |
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| In the Edit menu, choose Transform - Warp |
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| Little "handles" appear on each side - click on them and pull out as needed |
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| The corners are handles too - and you may need to pull in as well as out. |
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| When your quilt looks square on the grid, click on the arrow towards the right of the second row of menu bars |
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| Use the Crop tool (from the toolbar on left) to trim off unnecessary background |
When trimming the background, make sure the quilt's border isn't cut off - top left on the quilt below is too close for comfort! -
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| After - almost as square as in real life |
No, it's definitely not cheating. It merely corrects for operator error at some point in the design/photograph process. I do this often for photos of my collages (and occasionally quilts) because I can't get the proper angle when I photograph them. I'm just glad you can correct these things in PS!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that I could do this - great sharing of knowledge, thank you!
ReplyDeleteNow, if you could just make it take just a few clicks to get my quilts actually lie flat, that would be even better!