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. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
