Apologies folks - I thought I was posting to a different group.
Please ignore.
On Aug 18, 8:37 pm, AEngineer <AEnginee...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm a new Gimp users (2.2 on a PC) who's very impressed with the
> program. Most of what I'm used to doing in Paintshop Pro (PSP) I find
> I can do in Gimp very well. I have one awkwardness that I hope
> someone can help me with.
>
> I take photos of my wife's paintings quite regularly and need to
> correct for perspective distortion because I don't get the camera
> exactly centered on the painting.
>
> In PSP there's a very hand perspective tool that allows one to
> identify four corners of an object - a rectangle originally, but a
> distorted trapezoid in the image. Activating the tool makes the
> object a rectangle which I can then crop to get a clean image.
>
> Is there a way of doing the same thing relatively easily in Gimp?
>
> I know that I can use the path tool to create the boundaries of my
> object and then can transform it visually to a rectangle (using
> guides), but I'd love to have something easier than that, that makes
> the edges exactly horizontal and vertical.
>
> Thanks
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