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 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.

Quoting Anthony Ettinger :

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.

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.

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--- 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.

-- Anthony Ettinger
408-656-2473
http://anthony.ettinger.name

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

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.

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.