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danielg50178951
danielg50178951
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January 18, 2017
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Puppet Warp is blurring my photograph, any advice?

  • January 18, 2017
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I just learned how to use puppet warp to correct some minor perspective issues in my photo, but it's causing the photo to blur, which makes it look worse. Any tips on correcting these things without losing sharpness (It's pretty pronounced). Thank you.

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Eternal Warrior
Eternal Warrior
Inspiring
January 18, 2017

Perspective Warp may be more useful here given the original statements.

danielg50178951
danielg50178951Author
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January 18, 2017

Sorry for the delay in responding. Here is the original. I read that low res images blur more, so when I up sampled, I saw less blurring. Still, while the effect was useful, I feel like there's a better way to correct the perspective.

Ideally the vertical lines of the cooks window are symmetrical and the counter is straight. You'll also notice that the coffee machine has a bizarre bend to it (at the right corner of the cooks window) and the cereal shelf next to the waiters head seems to droop.

What would the ideal workflow be to fix this?

Trevor.Dennis
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Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 18, 2017

Daniel, is that the largest size you have of the image?  It's impossible to make a proper assessment on an image so low res, and not particularly sharp at that.  Paste it in at full res and we can be a lot more help to you.   I can tell you straight off the bat, that Puppet Warp is not going to be useful here.  Perspective Warp, maybe, but probably not.

Free Transform of individual objects on their own separate layers, is probably going to be best, with some use of the Clone tool to fill in gaps, so to speak.  Show us a much bigger image without those yellow arrows, and we'll take another look.

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 18, 2017

    Have you tried Liquify?

    That will naturally also »degenerate« the edited sections to some degree but it might provide more subtle control in certain areas.

    postrophe
    postrophe
    Inspiring
    January 18, 2017

    Hi

    Not sure why using "puppet warp" to fix a "minor perspective issues".

    Copy/paste your original image in a reply.

    Pierre

      Trevor.Dennis
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      Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 18, 2017

      After agreeing with everything written so far, I have to add with this is what Puppet Warp is for

      When I was looking for something to test it on just now, I found some truly dreadful examples from people demonstrating the tool in tutorials.  Mine is not flash, but the sort of rubber limbed boneless people and animals you'll find on the web, are dire.

      Show us the original, and you'll get a much better answer.

        Chuck Uebele
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        Chuck UebeleCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        January 18, 2017

        Just by it's nature, puppet warp is going to distort whatever pixels you alter. Of course that depends on how much you distort them. Can you post a screen shot showing the distortion?

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