Re: Correcting Photographs of Paintings

On Aug 18, 8:53 pm, "Barry L. Wallis" <KRQSAOQMN...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
AEngineer wrote:

[...]

In PSP there's a very hand perspective tool that allows one to
identify four corners of an object - a rectangle originally, but a
distorted trapezoid in the image. Activating the tool makes the
object a rectangle which I can then crop to get a clean image.

Is there a way of doing the same thing relatively easily in Gimp?

You can use the Perspective tool from the toolbar or press Shift-P. Pick
the Backward (corrective) option and click on the image. This will bring
up a grid you can move to match the perspective of the painting
(anything outside the grid will be trimmed). When you click Transform in
the Transform dialog, the photo will be fixed so it is square.

--
- Barry

That's perfect - exactly what I hoped for. Many thanks.
FYI - in Gimp 2.2 what I saw was a box whose 4 corners I moved, rather
than a grid.

Jim Mitchell

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