Automatic Puppet Warp pin placement and edge straightening for large textile photography.

I photograph the winning entries in a national quilt competition every year, and I process around 100 quilt images in Photoshop. Each quilt needs to be corrected for sagging, buckling, uneven hanging, and perspective issues — all without distorting the quilt’s design.

My workflow for every image includes:

• Straightening using ACR guides

• Perspective Warp for planar correction

• Puppet Warp for fine straightening

• Cropping

• Cloning to fill gaps created by warping

• Adding a consistent border for presentation

This takes 20–25 minutes per quilt, adding up to 40–50 hours of manual editing. The most difficult and time‑consuming part is Puppet Warp, where I must manually place 40–50 pins around the quilt edges and then nudge each one to straighten the lines. This repetitive work causes significant neck and shoulder strain over multi‑day sessions.

Feature Request

I would love to see a new Photoshop feature that:

1. Automatically detects the object boundary (similar to Select Subject).

2. Automatically places Puppet Warp pins along the edges of the object.

3. Optionally straightens those edges by adjusting the pins inward/outward.

4. Allows manual refinement afterward.

Why This Matters

Large textile photography (quilts, tapestries, banners, garments, museum textiles) often requires precise geometric correction without altering the artwork. Manual Puppet Warp pin placement is extremely slow and physically demanding, especially when repeated hundreds of times.

An automatic pin‑placement and edge‑straightening feature would:

• Save dozens of hours per project

• Improve consistency

• Reduce physical strain

• Make Photoshop far more capable for textile, product, and archival photography

Thank you for considering this enhancement — it would make a huge difference for anyone working with non‑rigid planar objects.