Photo Retouching - - Weird Perspective

Cassidy · #1 12-30-2006, 05:30 PM

Took this picture of my daughter at the beach yesterday, and apart from the date being wrong (should have read 30/12/2006), it has a weird perspective which I am having a devil of a time resolving satisfactorily. Anyone care to have a go? Any comments?

Frank Lopes · #2 12-30-2006, 05:44 PM

The first thing I would do, would be to remove the tree growing out of her head :-)
Then I would try a different sky.
Finally I would try a a different crop.

I'll take a crack at it and then post it.

[EDIT]

Here is my take on it... Tried to work on the left elbow but failed miserably...

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Originally Posted by Cassidy

Took this picture of my daughter at the beach yesterday, and apart from the date being wrong (should have read 30/12/2006), it has a weird perspective which I am having a devil of a time resolving satisfactorily. Anyone care to have a go? Any comments?

lkroll · #3 12-30-2006, 05:49 PM

GIMP has a cool filter called Map Object that, among other things, allows you to rotate perspectively an image along all three major axis. I just rotated along the Y axis for this one. The result is somewhat squenched and blurred, so I resized just the width and also ran a GIMP Refocus filter. Not pretty, but the image is small and the results just for possibilities.

Daviskw · #4 12-30-2006, 07:02 PM

Hi there

Lovely daughter you have

I used the Lens correction filter then a small amount of liquify

Butch

Cassidy · #5 12-30-2006, 09:35 PM

Peano, her forearm looks like it belongs to popeye

chillin · #6 12-30-2006, 11:41 PM

Some cutting, pasting, rotating, resizing & skewing.

Cassidy · #7 12-31-2006, 12:46 AM

Many thanks Butch, I think so, but then I may be a little biased

Flora · #8 12-31-2006, 05:06 AM

Hi everybody,

Cass,

I agree with Butch... you have a beautiful daughter ... Sure, we mothers see our kids with the eyes of love ... but deep down we manage to remain objective...

For what the picture is concerned, I agree with Frank about "the tree growing out of her head"

What I did for her arm is:

Selected/copied her arm and pasted it on a new Layer.
Used Transform and Warp Tool to re-dimension it.

Attachment 1 > My final result.
Attachment 2 > The arm detail.

soleah · #9 01-01-2007, 03:00 PM

The right arm needs fixing too. It's shorter and thinner, opposite of what happened to the left arm.