Buildings - Skew/Distort/Perspective

I am new to Elements 2.0 and starting to look and some landscape shots. The distortion on buildings is something else. My pictures have them going every which way. I've attached two photos - a before and after, that I am trying to learn the options under the Transform command. The perspective of the "after picture" still looks a bit wacky to me. Please have a look and let me know what adjustments are recommended. I should have recorded my alterations, I know I used Skew and Perspective, and some cropping. Comments are welcome. Thank you...

http://www.pbase.com/image/10090202

http://www.pbase.com/image/10090203

I think you overcorrected the perspective a bit - buildings lean outwards slightly. This is easiest to see at the edges of the picture. I use View Grid in PSE1 to help see when things are straight.

There's a lot of stuff in this picture. You might get a picture with more impact if you crop to a vertical format, maybe focusing on the building in the centre with a tower?

best wishes, David

Gbozich said:

I know I used Skew and Perspective, and some cropping. Comments are
welcome. Thank you...

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David Griffel said:

I think you overcorrected the perspective a bit - buildings lean
outwards slightly. This is easiest to see at the edges of the
picture. I use View Grid in PSE1 to help see when things are
straight.

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Agree with the leaning outwards, especially at the edges of the photos. The further away, the more they seem to lean! ;-) That's my excuse, anyway!
Cheers
Frank

I got a rather more convincing correction using Pixture Window 3 (www.dl-c.com) - Transformation/Geometry/Warp.

The advantage this has over the Elements (v1) is that PW provides a mesh across the whole of the distorted quadrilateral, allowing you for check how things are going in the middle of the shot, not just along the edges.

It seems also to provide what the Elements 3d-Transform does (but I don't use Elements for this purpose, so am no expert).

One of the slight difficulties of your before shot is that one can't find a reliable horizontal, the balustrade appears to be legitimate;y going away for the viewpoint.

John Bunney

Gbozich said:

I am new to Elements 2.0 and starting to look and some landscape
shots. The distortion on buildings is something else. My pictures
have them going every which way. I've attached two photos - a
before and after, that I am trying to learn the options under the
Transform command. The perspective of the "after picture" still
looks a bit wacky to me. Please have a look and let me know what
adjustments are recommended. I should have recorded my alterations,
I know I used Skew and Perspective, and some cropping. Comments are
welcome. Thank you...

http://www.pbase.com/image/10090202

http://www.pbase.com/image/10090203

Click to expand...