I’m new to DxO ViewPoint5. Where can I find help for my question?
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I’ve never tried this with Viewpoint, but you can attach a sample (preferably a raw file) to experiment with.
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ViewPoint 5 has a newly updated Reshape tool. I am not sure if it will accomplish your goal, but even if it does it will take some time to master the tool and probably some significant time and effort to apply it to multiple scans. It is not automatic. It is very manual. I doubt the normal Perspective tool would accomplish your goal.
Mark
@HAK48 - Can you post an example of an image that you’d like to “flatten” … so that we can see exactly what you mean.
John
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Thanks for looking into my problem.
I do not have many example files, as I didn’t take many photos because I had no solution for the curved images.
there are - very expensive _ scanners on the market which project laser lines onto the page and uses these in the scan software to flatten the pages. But for private use on some few pages it would be great, if a similar solution could be found for existing photos, where you draw some lines which follow the curve and which are used to straighten the image… ReShape may just be a tool to come close to this!
Open the book on about 100 degrees. Then the pages aren’t curved that much.
George
Rather than using ViewPoint’s ReShape tool, I would use Affinity to warp pictures of book pages:
https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ObjectControl/warp.html&title=Warping%20objects
Or, dare I suggest, you flatten one page at a time under a sheet of glass and put a polarising filter on the lens to kill any reflections. You really don’t need any correction software at all.
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But many books you shouldn’t open completely,180 degrees. Build some standard that opens the book at some 100 degrees so you can shoot alongside the other page.
I don’t know if that trick with a glass works.
George
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