Bending the Horizon in Photo & Graphic Designer 2013

[JustKen]

Hi all,

I took a pic of a sunset 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]

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).

[Egg Bramhill]

I took a pic of a sunset from an airplane.

Glad I wasn't on that flight

[siran]

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

[siran]

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]

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

[JustKen]

Thanks, everyone, for your timely help! I'll try the warp in another app too, mwens. I do have the Liquid colour filter, Hans. It's the only one I didn't try! I hadn't thought of using a brush, Siran. I think rotating the pic off of horizontal will make it look "spacier" still. Egg, I hear ya! I had to rotate the pic in Xara to edit it, but I sent the original unrotated photo. Darned iPad.

[siran]

I had to rotate it to create the brush, but off course you can rotate it back.