Cloud over Walkworth Castle

[eysha]

PBurness, i don't mind at all, except that i now wish i had that programme, lol.
My camera does use a wide angled lens as it is a Panasonic FZ38 not a DSLR so i couldn't change lenses, if that is what i needed to do to correct it or take the photo properly.
I kinda understand what you did to it, shame the cloud had to be cropped a bit. I am learning and i thank you for your time on the photos and the explanation too. I shows me i need to learn PP and save up for a better programme too, lol.
E.

[pburness]

Hi Eysha,
Yep, the straightening did crop a bit off the top, but with a bit more time I may have been able to rescue some of it. I just wanted to demonstrate that the issue could be fixed fairly quickly. I am sure you can do something similar in photoshop 7.
Best advice is don't tilt the lens upwards.
Also, there is a simple program called PTLens that does pretty much the same job and is relatively cheap, see here - PTLens

Phil

[eysha]

Thanks again, i will try not to tilt the lens upwards from now on and you did demonstrate your point. I wil see what i can do in photoshop but will try to not make the mistake in the first place.
Thanks again for the help and education, it is appreciated.
E

[OldBoy]

eysha, use the Rectangular Tool on the Tool Palette, second from top, click on the one corner of your photo and drag to the far corner, which will draw a box around your photo. Then click on the Edit, Transform and select Skew. This allows you straighten parts of the image but you need to play around with it to get the best effect. Remember, the Transform option is greyed out until you select the image with the Rectangular tool.

[eysha]

Thanks Oldboy, i will try that and play around and see what happens. E

[GeoffWessex]

It would be a difficult task to straighten the verticals here..... the image was taken with a focal length of 4.8mm - and even on a small sensor that is still in 'wide angle' territory. The exif suggests an equivalent of 27mm. Not a lot to be done, really.

[eysha]

Thanks for the reply Geoffwessex. I don't quite understand the exif and the photographic terminology yet being a newbie to photography but i am trying,lol.
E.