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Subject: [Leica] IMG: PWIGOMLAAP: Gee, maybe I don't need that fancy shift lens anymore.
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Sat Sep 1 15:31:09 2007
References: <20070901220015.GS4854@jbm.org>

Jeff, another cool PS capability. Having made the global correction, if you 
get very keen you can go on and correct any distortion
of individual elements such as the head there. All you need is another 12 
hrs in every day to keep learning in PS.

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
Subject: [Leica] IMG: PWIGOMLAAP: Gee,maybe I don't need that fancy shift 
lens anymore.

So I grabbed this kind of posed-looking (though it wasn't) picture
outside the radio station, and the original

  
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/scratch/jbm-20070831-m8b-007-1440max.jpg.html

looked, well, the way pictures with the camera tilted down look --
converging verticals.  Back in the day, if I'd been trying to get fancy
and correct for that, I'd have busted out the tilt-shift lens (if I
happened to be lugging it around with me).  But now, in this brave
modern world, I've (finally -- please don't laugh too much) stumbled
across the magic of the Free Transform in Photoshop.  We don't need no
stinkin' shift lenses!

  
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/pwigomlaap/jbm-20070831-m8b-007-Edit-1280max.jpg.html

Of course, Kathryn tells me he looks kind of pinheaded in the tweaked
version.  I don't know if I'm completely sold, either.  But it's a cool
new (to me) trick.

 -Jeff

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In reply to: Message from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] IMG: PWIGOMLAAP: Gee, maybe I don't need that fancy shift lens anymore.)