The regular Deformation tool is mostly the same, but the Straightening Tool makes it much, much easier to fix crooked shots. It will even auto-crop, if you want.
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| Original. Notice how the right side of the horizon is higher. | Now it's straight! |
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| Original. Again - the right horizon is higher. | Fixed and cropped. |
Perspective often gets changed in photos of buildings, so that their sides are no longer parallel or perpendicular to each other.
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| Original. Notice how everything tilts toward the center. | Straightened. |
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| Original. | Fixed and cropped. |
You can really have fun with these.
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| (Warp Mesh) Murphy can be really nosey sometimes. | (Warp Mesh) Here she's having, not only a bad hair day, but a bad face day. |
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| Original. | Warp brushed into the Wavy Striped Anteater |
This is one of the best new tools in PSP 8. It allows you to cleanly isolate images from the background.
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| Here's a flower that I'll make into a tube. | Since I've done such awful things to Murphy today, I'll give her a nice flower to tuck behind one ear as a reward. |
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