Bending the Horizon in Photo & Graphic Designer 2013

**JustKen** · 08 February 2016, 04:05 PM

Hi all,

I took a pic of a sunset

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from an airplane. Just for fun, I'd like to bend the horizon so that it looks like the pic was taken from space. Is there any tool in Xara that can do this for me? I've tried the various mould tools and the standard live effects tools, but haven't had any luck. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

JK.

**mwenz** · 08 February 2016, 05:05 PM

Hello JK,

There are some bitmap filters in XDP X11 (and some earlier versions, and perhaps limited to the 32-bit version) that more or less can warp the image to force the horizon into a more circular shape. I wasn't happy with my attempts.

One of the screen shots below are using an image editor, the other can be done using any application that has mesh warping capability (I used a layout application, actually).

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**Egg Bramhill** · 09 February 2016, 01:18 AM

I took a pic of a sunset from an airplane.

Glad I wasn't on that flight

**siran** · 09 February 2016, 01:36 AM

You could create an art brush from it and draw an arc

**siran** · 09 February 2016, 02:00 AM

Okay, that really looks bad. But you probably can do better. This is how it looks after stretching a little, create bitmap copy and cropping.

**haakoo** · 09 February 2016, 07:57 AM

FX>Deformation Filter>Liquid color
Stretch>only in vertical direction>zoom out to make it apply to a larger part of your picture.
Done in DesignerProX11(don't know if the liquid color filter is present in your version)

Hans