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by Marpel
July 23rd, 2023, 12:22 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Shrinking the middle
Replies: 4
Views: 629

Shrinking the middle

I have an image which is a crop from another. The crop was full width, but reduced vertically, so now long and narrow. I now find the proportions awkward and the middle area (from top to bottom) less important than either end, so my wish was to shrink that middle section, horizontally, while keeping...
by Marpel
July 14th, 2023, 8:51 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Lost Work
Replies: 6
Views: 617

Re: Lost Work

No need to apologize...stuff happens. I was going back and forth between the Freehand, Flood Fill and Paint tools, and also going back and forth between the Add and Subtract buttons, but do not remember which tool I was using at the time of the crash. Although I have often saved a mask as an image f...
by Marpel
July 13th, 2023, 6:34 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Lost Work
Replies: 6
Views: 617

Lost Work

I spent quite a while generating a mask (using the Mask transform alone, not during another transform), as the area which had to be masked was so close in tone/hue to surrounding areas, it took seemingly forever. I chose to slowly move along edges with the pen and flood fill tools, constantly changi...
by Marpel
May 30th, 2023, 7:15 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: suggestion : cloning with rotation, mirroring, and resizing
Replies: 7
Views: 1311

Re: suggestion : cloning with rotation, mirroring, and resizing

I think, in theory, your suggestion has merit. Because I have no clue about coding and all that stuff, I don't know if it is easily doable.
by Marpel
May 29th, 2023, 7:53 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: suggestion : cloning with rotation, mirroring, and resizing
Replies: 7
Views: 1311

Re: suggestion : cloning with rotation, mirroring, and resizing

But I think that is what I was getting at with my explanation (unless I am way out in my interpretation of your idea). As an example, let's say you wanted to replace an area in an image that is the shape of an "S" (the thickness of the S would be controlled by the slider you describe). Per...
by Marpel
May 28th, 2023, 7:30 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: suggestion : cloning with rotation, mirroring, and resizing
Replies: 7
Views: 1311

Re: suggestion : cloning with rotation, mirroring, and resizing

Sounds almost like Composite and multi point alignment? Years ago (like at least 20), I used multi point (4 or 5 I think), on an image of a city night skyline where I composited (stitched) five vertical images together for a panorama. It has been awhile so can't recall every detail, but I do remembe...
by Marpel
May 27th, 2023, 7:54 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: suggestion : cloning with rotation, mirroring, and resizing
Replies: 7
Views: 1311

Re: suggestion : cloning with rotation, mirroring, and resizing

I think I know of what you are referring. If not, disregard my comments. I have long used the following process to clone a part of one image into another by: - Composition, one point alignment, initially at 50% opacity. - Move the overlay image around until the two areas line up to get an initial im...
by Marpel
April 10th, 2023, 9:36 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Light Falloff
Replies: 4
Views: 1286

Re: Light Falloff

Thanks again Jonathan, I routinely use the raw editor vignette control, except those few times when I do as described in my initial post, as sometimes the raw editor vignette control will give slightly different results between images and it then becomes a bit of a pain to blend parts of one image i...
by Marpel
April 10th, 2023, 6:51 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Light Falloff
Replies: 4
Views: 1286

Re: Light Falloff

Thanks Jonathan for the reply. I may try the calibration image approach, as you describe, as it would be nice to have one handy for future use. However, as I have no real knowledge of this method, can you advise: Would a single image suffice for each lens? I would imagine the f-stop would have some ...
by Marpel
April 9th, 2023, 3:52 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Light Falloff
Replies: 4
Views: 1286

Light Falloff

Latest version. Experimenting, I took a number (8) of photos of a boat masts in a foggy harbour (you can only see the masts, against a, foggy, white background). In each photo a bird is seen flying across, from right to left. I processed the images out of my raw editor, with no changes. Normally, I ...