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mros2345
09-20-2006, 04:33 PM
Maybe it's really easy to do this, but I've just started learning Photoshop and I don't know how to solve this problem:
The horizon in this picture is tilted. How could I fix it, leaving everything else the same? Thanks a lot for any ideas.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h141/sunset2345/Picture_122.jpg
(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)
09-20-2006, 04:39 PM
If you are new to photoshop it will not be easy.....I would take the water line above the animal and straighten it out. The gap of white that is made will have to be recreated, into the ocean, and made to look real. Otherwise if the animal is more important to you, then you can crop the animal out, rotate the picture, and recreate the areas around the animal.
There might be an easier way, but that is the first thing that comes to mind for me!
cornfed
09-20-2006, 04:40 PM
I would take a reverse approach and add in some more sky rather than attempt to rotate the horizon. Just take the rubber stamp and stamp in some of that sky in the shape of a straighter horizon.
(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)
09-20-2006, 04:44 PM
I concure with corn.....then no gap has to be created or filled.
SharkFinStudios
09-20-2006, 04:45 PM
Well, you can Google it and get a few tutorials that will tell you how to adjust the entire image. Or you can set a guide going where you'd like the horizon to be and go to Free Transform>Warp. This way you can adjust the sides of the photo without distorting it too much. I use this on occasion and it works well. There are a few other ways to do this, but your entire image would be shifted.
naturehut
09-27-2006, 09:04 PM
To correct the horizon: select all, free transform, rightclick, rotate. Place tool in upper right corner and rotate image to the proper position. Deselect and use the cropping tool to remove edges.
Dennis
Westernlightgallery.com
Corrected version http://westernlightgallery.com/h2.jpg
peder
09-27-2006, 09:07 PM
Select the whole canvas with the crop tool, then move the square down so that you can align one of the sides with the horizen by rotating, then move the square so that you get as much as you can of the image (shrink while holding down Shift) and click enter. That's what I'd do. I don't have time to explain the alternative.
frankster
09-27-2006, 09:18 PM
If the image can handle it and the tilt isn't too off then you can transform-skew to straighten it. Might be a bit too much here though as the squirrel gets squished a fair bit... Just did it in a couple of seconds, so it's not completely horizontal, but you get the idea.
http://www.sanfranboardman.com/images/rando_pics/SKEW.jpg
Caddyman
09-27-2006, 09:23 PM
If the image can handle it and the tilt isn't too off then you can transform-skew to straighten it. Might be a bit too much here though as the squirrel gets squished a fair bit... Just did it in a couple of seconds, so it's not completely horizontal, but you get the idea.
http://www.sanfranboardman.com/images/rando_pics/SKEW.jpg
^^ do that, but first cut your squirrel out then put him back unsquished.....perfect
He is soooo cute! I didn't know squirrels hung out at the beach??
He's fat one isn't he?
frankster
09-28-2006, 12:09 AM
Back home in good old inner city manchester the squirrels in the parks were monstrous, fat, violent, cig butt chewers and as a result were totally nicotine dependant and quite scary. This one looks like a little darlin!
Bums. We don't have squirrels in New Zealand. I kinda wish we did, but they would probably cause havoc on our wildlife and native trees.
D-Frag
09-28-2006, 01:33 AM
since when do squirels hang out by the ocean?? where in the hell is this creepy place?
Alan G
09-30-2006, 06:25 PM
The fast fix is to select the part of the image just above the dark wave line. This will include the tips of the ears, but don't worry about that part right now.
Give it a feather of about 2 pixels (on this tiny version -- the full size image will need something more like 5 or 10).
Copy the selection onto its own layer (control-J) then use free transform to rotate it until the horizon is level. Since the background sky is still in place, you won't get any missing edges.
Click the layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette (or use Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal All.
With a black, soft-edge brush, paint on the layer mask to hide the squirrel's ears in the copy layer and let the background layer show through. Do the same to blend any sky or sea areas where any "seams" show. (I didn't do this step, and in the tiny version it actually looks fine.)
capezio
09-30-2006, 06:37 PM
Back home in good old inner city manchester the squirrels in the parks were monstrous, fat, violent, cig butt chewers and as a result were totally nicotine dependant and quite scary. This one looks like a little darlin!
Grey squirrels damn things vermin, rats with bushy tails.
Now the endangered half the size red squirrels—they are little darlins!
Alan G
09-30-2006, 07:02 PM
Even when I was a kid, the reds were only left in parts of Scotland, capezio. We used to see them in the back garden every so often. My English relatives were jealous.
jimking
09-30-2006, 07:28 PM
Alan, you're a Scott? My good buddy is from Scotland and my wife and I are leaving my house now to visit him. A great guy. His mother visits him here in Washington DC and boy is she something! What a temper and I thought the Italians had the temper. :D
Alan G
09-30-2006, 08:23 PM
Well, it's "Scot" with one T, but yes, I am. After 20 years in the US I became a naturalized American citizen.; It seemed the right thing to do. Your good buddy probably has red hair: a notorious warning sign for temper. As it happens, my wife is Italian and can be wonderfully volcanic on occasion. I love her dearly and wouldn't change her for the world.
bazman
10-04-2006, 09:19 PM
I use the measure tool to correct uneven horizons. You can find it under the eyedropper menu on the toolbar. Just draw a line across your wonky horizon then click on the beginning point of the line while pressing alt + shift and draw down as far as you can go. goto image -> rotate canvas -> arbituary and you will have the exact rotation you need. Just make sure you select whether you want it to rotate clockwise or anticlockwise. then crop out the unwanted background. You will loose such a small amount of the background you would never notice the difference.
SharkFinStudios
10-04-2006, 09:27 PM
since when do squirrels hang out by the ocean?? where in the hell is this creepy place?
D-Frag... we get them out here by the ocean in Southern Cali all the time. Ground squirrels and they sit right by the garbage cans waiting for a meal.
Freaky suckers.
Alan G
10-04-2006, 09:30 PM
Measure tool works okay. Now in CS2 we have Lens Correction, which does an even better job and is very slick and quick to use. (It would probably have won the Way Cool Tool of the Year if Adobe hadn't put Vanishing Point and Lens Blur into the same release.)
The particular problem here was how to correct the horizon without tilting anything else in the image, which neither of those approaches would handle.