Not all spoiled photos are bad!
As I was preparing a post for another blog, I was looking for photos of cafe doors. Searching my archives I came across one that was a nice enough image but for some reason or another I took it with the camera way cockeyed. No idea what I was thinking at the time. The other photos in the series were perfectly alright, but this one was the only one that really fit my story.
Here is the original.
Just not the way I want it. OK, let’s go to Microsoft Image Composite Editor. Nothing to “composite” here, just one frame. ICE won’t accept a single file. So I duplicated it. Loaded it into ICE, told it I was using “Rotating Motion” and had it “Stitch”. It will do that with two copies of the same photo. Then it lets you manipulate it as you like. For “Projection” I used “Perspective”. This let me do some perspective correction as well as rotating the image freely. Now I had a picture I liked. Saved it without cropping.
Since the image was rotated rather strongly the exported image showed a lot of black around the useful picture. That didn’t look so good. Paint to the rescue! Just drop in “white” in each of the black triangles and here we are. What do you think, will this work?
© 2016 Ludwig Keck
That’s a great “rescue” Ludwig. I wouldn’t think of using ICE in this way at all.
Thank you, Richard
That worked out really well Ludwig! Great advice…
Thank you Vivky
you made some great lemonade with that lemon! and creative in a whimsical way.
Thanks, Walt
Very informative! Thank you.
Thank you!
I’m not a photo-phile, so I can’t answer your question, except to say that this page makes me feel a bit as if we’re in the middle of an earthquake! We get a lot of those here in San Francisco, so I’m rather used to feeling things go up and then down and then up again. : )
But you did answer the question, Kathryn. Thank you. I never thought that this might be confusing or reminiscent of an earthquake. I appreciate your thoughts!
Not confusing at all, Ludwig. It’s the visual aspect of tipsy turvy the photographs gave, with their angles that prompted the earthquake reference. I often experience earthquakes here first with a sense of dizziness, so was being a bit facetious.
We all think of photos as means of communication. Sometimes what we think we say and what is seen can be surprisingly different. It is a wonderful world!