Project St Imre Part VI (perspective and cropping) in Elements

These five lessons seem to have gone swooshing by, even if we took a longer break during the summer. However, the photo about Prince St Imre's statue is still unfinished. Even now we can find minor flaws to correct, as you will soon see.

 

1. Load the photo In earlier articles of the series, we adjusted contrast, brightness, and colors, and made chromatic aberration and unwanted objects disappear. Let's take another look to find something else to edit. Well, there's the perspective, and the photo would also need some cropping. 2. Askew Perspective distortion can be best spotted by the base of the statue, especially when the grid is turned on (click View/Grid). It is a very handy tool for spotting such defects. The top of the base is less askew than the bottom, and skewness cannot be spotted on the statue itself. Therefore, we'll have to stretch the bottom left corner of the picture, and we need perspective correction to do so. 3. Down with the corner! You may want to leave the grid switched on, as it can help you with the adjustment. Perspective correction is carried out almost exactly as it has been shown previously, but now we make it a little simpler: there's no need to fiddle with menus. Just press Ctrl+A to select the whole picture, and Ctrl+T to switch to the Transform tool. A thin border appears, with handles on the sides and corners. You can drag them to resize the picture, but this is not what we need. We just want to move one corner. Press and hold Ctrl, and click the bottom left corner. Drag the mouse downwards until the lower straight lines of the statue base get horizontal. You can also use the top left corner for the correction, but it needs to be dragged downwards even less. Press Enter when you're done to commit your changes. Perspective correction is finished. 4. Cropping Another problem is the composition being too open. The left side and especially the top of the photo cries out for some cropping, doubly so as the top shows a blank bar produced by perspective correction. Select the Crop tool from the Tools palette (or press C). Make sure that No Restriction is selected in the options bar at the top and Width and Height are left blank. Select the whole photo with the Crop tool, press and hold Shift, and drag the top left handle to specify the desired amount of cropping. Holding Shift preserves aspect ratio during dragging. Not using it lets you freely resize the area even to a landscape-orientated rectangle, but we want to keep the original layout, and just crop the left and top areas. If you are done with the setting, press Enter or click the green check mark in the bottom right corner of the marquee. 5. A straight stance The changes made to the photo are not very spectacular at a first glance, but we made horizontal what originally is, and the composition fits the main theme better. The statue became even more of a central motive of the picture.

 

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