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Jul 3, 2023 12:50:47 #

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When to crop and correct for tilt

gvarner wrote:

Using PS Elements, I can crop and correct for tilt in the RAW file in ACR or use the JPEG when it’s in the Editor. Which one is the better choice? With the JPEG, I always crop and correct for tilt before I do any edits. When doing these corrections in RAW, I don’t have any control over the resulting photo ratio like I do on the JPEG, i.e. original, 5x7, square, etcetera. Your comments would be appreciated.

gvarner!

Correcting tilt and then cropping is easier in ACR but the resulting image might eliminate a detail near the image's edge that you would like to keep or want to keep the image's original dimensions and/or original format, 3x2, 645, etc without cropping too much from the image. You might also want to see and refer to the original image and crop it in the PSE program. There have been cases where I do crop and this would eliminate some of the image and thusly less work!

Here's a method I've used for years with PS Elements to tilt and keep the original image in all its glory! Adobe's new PS AI Generative Fill might be an alternative.

1. Original landscape of Badwater Basin in Death Valley is obviously not level!
2. Using PSE 2021, I corrected the tilt by 1.5 degrees, Screen capture A.
3. Screen capture B shows the cropping tool which in this image eliminates relatively little and some folks could live with that! If the tilt were extreme and needed much more correction, much more image area might have to be cropped away.
4. Screen capture C shows the "Liquify" tool (in the sub-menu under "Distort" which is in the "Filter" command along the top Menu bar.)
5. Using the "Liquify" brush, slowly push the portions of the original image towards the gap between it and the new border. Basically, you are pushing pixels and using them to fill in the gaps. Works best when small gaps need to be covered. The "Liquify" brush could not be screen captured. You can adjust the circular brush to cover the areas to be "pushed."
6. Screen capture D show quite a bit of the original image filling in the gaps between the original image and the new borders of the new image.
7. Screen capture E shows 90% of the original image being expanded to fill in the gap between the tilted image and the "new" image borders.
8. The final results are shown in the last image, Screen capture F.

It takes more time to show and tell than to do this correction. Likewise, very often, some extraneous detail near the image's edge such as a portion of a limb or sign or pole or flower or garbage is distracting, then the liquifying tool is very helpful and can push the offending object out of the image.

Be well! Have a great Fourth of July! Ed

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