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opera house- need help

Postby mattyshea on Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:49 am

ok so i snagged a few night shots whilst in sydney the other day but cant find anywhere how i go about levelling the horizon lines of the image up. it is really bothering me. thanks
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Re: opera house- need help

Postby CraigVTR on Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:23 am

Matt

In photoshop CS@2 you can use the measure tool to draw a line on the horizon, then go image > rotate > arbitary. The dialoge box comes up with a figure just press ok and you have a level opera house. In CaptureNX2 there is a line tool which does the rotation as soon as you draw the line.

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Re: opera house- need help

Postby aim54x on Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:13 am

Nice shot, straightening it out will help, I only use the tool in Capture NX2 but there is a similar tool in the 'develop' panel of Lightroom. Hope this helps
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Re: opera house- need help

Postby Matt. K on Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:13 pm

I've put a book under my monitor and the image looks fine! :D :D :D :D :D Seriously..what software do you use to process your imagery?
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Re: opera house- need help

Postby ian.bertram on Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:22 pm

...or you could use Gimp and do exactly the same thing (and it wouldn't cost you a cent). www.gimp.org- ong live open source.
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Re: opera house- need help

Postby SuperJT on Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:53 am

Camera Raw 5.0 and up in CS4 has a straighten tool. You grab the tool and drag it across a line that you think should be straight and it does the rest. Really, really simple but really effective.
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