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Thoughts and comments welcome:

The photo is beautiful. The colour is brilliant. I like it very much. I have only one issue that caught my eye immediately and it was what appeared to be some barrel distortion causing the buildings on the right of the bridge to lean inward.

Very nice Lowerpro! I like the perspective on this image. The bridge is fantastic.

I would perhaps crop a bit off the top and left of the image... to give the city a stronger focus.

Just my 2c.

Excellent comp.

A little over-sharpened for my taste (visible halos.)

Agree with Peto on the leaning buildings being a small prob. Easy to fix in PS.

Beautiful picture. The colors and perspective of the bridge are great! Welcome to the forum, btw.

Very nice. Great color for an evening shot.

thanks for taking the time to comment all.

Peto: yeah definate barrell distortion.

Slej: i've unfortunately posted the wrong image lol. You're right I did over sharpen on this, I have redone & printed a less sharpened version. As for the barrell distortion, do you mind sharing how to fix that in PS. I'm a bit newby when it comes to PS (I have version 7).

Many Thanks,

Lowepro Wrote:As for the barrell distortion, do you mind sharing how to fix that in PS. I'm a bit newby when it comes to PS (I have version 7).

Well, first let me argue that this is more a problem of "perspective distortion" than barrel distortion (though that seems to be there too.) Different tools are necessary to fix them, and unfortunately PS isn't good at fixing barreling without a 3rd-party plugin.

Here's the easiest way to fix perspective distortion.:

Select all of your image (Ctrl+A), and you'll see the famous marching ants around the edge.

Go to Edit > Transform > Perspective; at each corner of the image you'll see a little grab box.

In this case, drag one of the top corners out (it doesn't matter which one, as you'll see) until your buildings seem reasonably vertical.

If you don't want each corner to move together, you can use the Distort tool (Edit > Transform > Distort) and drag each corner independently.

To fix the barrel distortion, a free plug-in like PanoTools would be helpful. It is not very intuitive, but there are plenty of web tutorials that you can search for. I don't have it currently installed (plug-ins greatly increase the time it takes to load PS!) so I can't tell you how.

The help is very much appreciated. Thanks!!

Have a look at DCE Tools, they have a demo, it will do the barrels and perspective fixs easily.

Have ypu cropped from your original? The barrel tools I tried are not quite doing what I expected.

Thanks.

Pete

Peted Wrote:Have ypu cropped from your original? The barrel tools I tried are not quite doing what I expected.

Thanks.

Pete

I'm reasonably sure there was no cropping with this shot.

What camera and lens?

Cheers.

Pete

D70 with 18-70mm lens. Taken @ 18mm