creative ideas for blending a cropped + rotated image?

[Anthony Ettinger-3]

I have a photograph of a client that I would like to rotate so the
angle is not crooked, but I end up with a "V" shape after
rotation...does anyone have any creative ideas for blending something
in to get a full rectangle?

This is the image in question...I can't crop it down to a square
because I would loose the book he's holding, and that's the point of
the web site:

http://holocaustsurvivor.info/img/press-lg-weekly_redux.png

Looking for ideas, thanks.

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[Elwin Estle]

You could do some heavy duty clone work on the background and on his shirt.  Or, maybe
just put an oval vignette around him.

Another possibility might be to make him the centerpiece of a collage, perhaps put
related holocaust images around him?


--- Anthony Ettinger <anthony@...> wrote:

> I have a photograph of a client that I would like to rotate so the
> angle is not crooked, but I end up with a "V" shape after
> rotation...does anyone have any creative ideas for blending something
> in to get a full rectangle?
>
> This is the image in question...I can't crop it down to a square
> because I would loose the book he's holding, and that's the point of
> the web site:
>
> http://holocaustsurvivor.info/img/press-lg-weekly_redux.png
>
> Looking for ideas, thanks.
>
> --
> Anthony Ettinger
> 408-656-2473
> http://anthony.ettinger.name
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[saulgoode-2]

Quoting Anthony Ettinger <anthony@...>:

> I have a photograph of a client that I would like to rotate so the
> angle is not crooked, but I end up with a "V" shape after
> rotation...does anyone have any creative ideas for blending something
> in to get a full rectangle?
>
> This is the image in question...I can't crop it down to a square
> because I would loose the book he's holding, and that's the point of
> the web site:
>
> http://holocaustsurvivor.info/img/press-lg-weekly_redux.png
>
> Looking for ideas, thanks.

I would suggest taking a new photo of a different subject holding a  
similar pose -- particularly aiming at matching the neckline and the  
position of the arms. Then you could cut out your client's face & book  
and paste them into your new photo.



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[Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris]

On Friday 02 May 2008, Elwin Estle wrote:
> You could do some heavy duty clone work on the background and on
> his shirt.  Or, maybe just put an oval vignette around him.
>
> Another possibility might be to make him the centerpiece of a
> collage, perhaps put related holocaust images around him?
>

Search for the third part "Liquid resize"  plug-in for GIMP.
That will do it for you.

Without liquid resize,  the above  above are the best you can get.

        js
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> --- Anthony Ettinger <anthony@...> wrote:
> > I have a photograph of a client that I would like to rotate so
> > the angle is not crooked, but I end up with a "V" shape after
> > rotation...does anyone have any creative ideas for blending
> > something in to get a full rectangle?
> >
> > This is the image in question...I can't crop it down to a square
> > because I would loose the book he's holding, and that's the point
> > of the web site:
> >
> > http://holocaustsurvivor.info/img/press-lg-weekly_redux.png
> >
> > Looking for ideas, thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Anthony Ettinger
> > 408-656-2473
> > http://anthony.ettinger.name
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[Burnie at Tahoe]

Anthony Ettinger wrote:

> I have a photograph of a client that I would like to rotate so the
> angle is not crooked, but I end up with a "V" shape after
> rotation...does anyone have any creative ideas for blending something
> in to get a full rectangle?
>
> This is the image in question...I can't crop it down to a square
> because I would loose the book he's holding, and that's the point of
> the web site:
>
> http://holocaustsurvivor.info/img/press-lg-weekly_redux.png
>
> Looking for ideas, thanks.

I'm not sure what you mean by "V" shape, Anthony; the picture needs a
perspective transformation as well as a rotation. In order to rotate
without losing any of the image, you might increase the canvas size by
three times, and then rotate it.  Following this step, a little
perspective adjustment would rationalize the image, and then you could
fill the background with the sky color. A little monkeying around with
the corners of the book would then help.

Burnie
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[David Gowers]

Anthony,

Exactly what you want to do is not clear to me.
Trying to 'fake' the missing bits of photo is, while possible, a very
time consuming choice.
I think you would be better off making it seem like the missing bits
are intentional, as in this example:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/neota/edits/press-lg-weekly_redux-ed2.png

I made this by:
1. rotate appropriately.
2. apply 'value propagate', propagating opacity to the left and right
only, repeatedly until no transparent pixels are left.
3. remove the streak that appears near the top of his head by a bit of painting.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/neota/edits/press-lg-weekly_redux-ed3.png
is another idea, made simply by a bit of strategic painting. It
emphasizes the focus on the book.
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[Anthony Ettinger-3]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:49 PM, David Gowers <00ai99@...> wrote:

> Anthony,
>
>  Exactly what you want to do is not clear to me.
>  Trying to 'fake' the missing bits of photo is, while possible, a very
>  time consuming choice.
>  I think you would be better off making it seem like the missing bits
>  are intentional, as in this example:
>  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/neota/edits/press-lg-weekly_redux-ed2.png
>
>  I made this by:
>  1. rotate appropriately.
>  2. apply 'value propagate', propagating opacity to the left and right
>  only, repeatedly until no transparent pixels are left.
>  3. remove the streak that appears near the top of his head by a bit of painting.
>
>
>  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/neota/edits/press-lg-weekly_redux-ed3.png
>  is another idea, made simply by a bit of strategic painting. It
>  emphasizes the focus on the book.
>

Thank you David! I just had a good idea from you examples...I can tie
into the UI and perhaps have a little note area below the image, that
is tied into it, like a static "tooltip" (be it png) describing the
content of the image.

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[Leonard Evens]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:46 -0700, Anthony Ettinger wrote:

> I have a photograph of a client that I would like to rotate so the
> angle is not crooked, but I end up with a "V" shape after
> rotation...does anyone have any creative ideas for blending something
> in to get a full rectangle?
>
> This is the image in question...I can't crop it down to a square
> because I would loose the book he's holding, and that's the point of
> the web site:
>
> http://holocaustsurvivor.info/img/press-lg-weekly_redux.png
>
> Looking for ideas, thanks.
>

I presume you don't mean you want to do a three dimensional rotation so
the subject appears to be facing the camera, since that is clearly
impossible.

If you mean you just want to turn it on the page so the subject looks
upright, you can do that with an appropriate rotation transformation,
but you are going to get a rotated rectangle.  You can crop out part of
it, so the top and bottom will be horizontal and the sides vertical in
its new orientation, but then it will be a hexagon instead of a
rectangle.  I would suggest enlarging the canvas and then cropping it as
small as you can get it to include the subject's head and the book. Then
clone the relevant parts of the image to fill in the corners. There
won't be much problem with the background.  One thing you could do is to
select the figure, and then put any color you want in the inverted
selection.  If you are careful about what you leave in of the original
figure,  you ought to be able to clone in the shirt, the arms and
portions of the book.  If you want more than that,  you will have to
draw it in yourself.

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