Mebyon

Brilliant! Exactly what I needed: Perspective Effect (v2.0 update 03/05/'10)in Plugins - Publishing ONLY! Started by dpy, 15 Sep 2009 Last Post by dpy, 05 Mar 2010 Search for 'Skew', three offered, the second one was all I could ask for! Many thanks everybody. Now to spread the word at DP, they're going to love this! Chris

Nope! That keeps the selection box rectangular. It's almost as if I want to change the selection box from a rectangle to some other shape I guess. But thanks for the fast reply, fun isn't it! Chris

Thanks for getting back to me. Some background: I'm one of the volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php) We take old books and convert them into e-books, plain-text, epub, mobi, html, etc. But we always start with images of the pages. I've deleted the one that was giving me trouble but this is the sort of image that causes a lot of grief. Nope, not allowed to add an image either! Here's the PhotoBucket link: http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Mebyon/media/Ebooks/015_before.jpg.html?sort=4&o=13 That's a bit exaggerated but you can see what I'd like to do; return the page to a rectangular form by dragging top left and right corners out. It's not so very important for the OCR as Abbyy FineReader would cope quite well with that text but illustrations need 'squaring up' all the time. Paint.net looks like a perfect solution for us, (well, at least us who use Windows), as we're all doing this work for nothing and paying for PhotoPaint or PaintShop isn't really called for! I just hope that there's a plugin for the sort of distortion repair that I'm looking for. Thanks for your time. Chris

Hi there, what a nice product! I've been through the tutuorials and FAQs but can't find an answer, please help. Is there a way of distorting a selection to remove the 'keystone' effect which has made a rectangular page into a trapezium. (Photograped at a slight angle, I want it square for OCR.) Chris