make not quite rectangular shape into a rectangle… possible?

Edit > Free transform then hold alt while clicking a particular corner. This won’t fix droop but will adjust skew.

mscir wrote:

I am working with part of a photograph taken of a tapestry hanging on a well. The tapestry was not hanging exactly level, and one end droops quite a bit.

I once saw a guy select the edge of a not-quite rectangluar shape, then drag or stretch it into a rectangle. I can’t figure out how he did it though.

Any suggestions? URL’s?

Photoshop 6 Win 98.

Thanks,
MIke

Paul, I think you meant to say use the Ctrl key as you move one of the corners. Alt will do a proportional increase or decrease of the selection from the center point.

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Edit > Free transform then hold alt while clicking a particular corner. This won’t fix droop but will adjust skew.

mscir wrote:

I am working with part of a photograph taken of a tapestry hanging on a well. The tapestry was not hanging exactly level, and one end droops quite a bit.

I once saw a guy select the edge of a not-quite rectangluar shape, then drag or stretch it into a rectangle. I can’t figure out how he did it though.

Any suggestions? URL’s?

Photoshop 6 Win 98.

Thanks,
MIke

Paul,

That was it!!! by selecting sections of the tapestry and transforming hem, section by section, I squared it up very nicely.

I spent a lot of time trying to get choices from the filter menu to work, wondering why I couldn’t stumble onto it.

Thanks very much,
Mike

Paul Furman wrote:

Edit > Free transform then hold alt while clicking a particular corner. This won’t fix droop but will adjust skew.

mscir wrote:

I am working with part of a photograph taken of a tapestry hanging on a well. The tapestry was not hanging exactly level, and one end droops quite a bit.

I once saw a guy select the edge of a not-quite rectangluar shape, then drag or stretch it into a rectangle. I can’t figure out how he did it though.

Any suggestions? URL’s?

Photoshop 6 Win 98.

Thanks,
MIke

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:07:34 -0800, mscir
wrote:

Paul,

That was it!!! by selecting sections of the tapestry and transforming hem, section by section, I squared it up very nicely.

I spent a lot of time trying to get choices from the filter menu to work, wondering why I couldn’t stumble onto it.

Thanks very much,
Mike

And a quick suggestion you may find useful for correcting skew:

1. Select the measure tool and draw a straight line across the image.
2. Go to Edit/transform/arbitrary and you’ll see the box has already
been filled with an angle. Just hit Ok and this will straighten the picture automatically.

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veni, vidi, relinqui

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:07:34 -0800, mscir
wrote:

Paul,

That was it!!! by selecting sections of the tapestry and transforming hem, section by section, I squared it up very nicely.

I spent a lot of time trying to get choices from the filter menu to work, wondering why I couldn’t stumble onto it.

Thanks very much,
Mike

PS. You can also correct using the crop tool 😉

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Thanks for all of the suggestions to everyone who posted, I’ll be trying all of them.

Mike

Hecate wrote:

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:07:34 -0800, mscir
wrote:

Paul,

That was it!!! by selecting sections of the tapestry and transforming hem, section by section, I squared it up very nicely.

I spent a lot of time trying to get choices from the filter menu to work, wondering why I couldn’t stumble onto it.

Thanks very much,
Mike

PS. You can also correct using the crop tool 😉

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veni, vidi, relinqui

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On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:07:34 -0800, mscir
wrote:

Paul,

That was it!!! by selecting sections of the tapestry and transforming hem, section by section, I squared it up very nicely.

I spent a lot of time trying to get choices from the filter menu to work, wondering why I couldn’t stumble onto it.

Thanks very much,
Mike

And a quick suggestion you may find useful for correcting skew:
1. Select the measure tool and draw a straight line across the image.
2. Go to Edit/transform/arbitrary and you’ll see the box has already
been filled with an angle. Just hit Ok and this will straighten the picture automatically.

—

Hecate

veni, vidi, relinqui

Thanks for posting the tip on using the measure too.
It’s nice to see PhotoShop has caught up on one
feature of Enhance sold 10 years ago but went out
of business. I appreciate you tip. : -)