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    Match photo and blue axis tilt

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    • T Offline
      togethearth
      last edited by togethearth

      Sometimes (more and more) I notice that a photo cannot match exactly and I don't know why.

      http://screenshoot.me/photomatch

      I made a box according to the dimensions of the product in the photo (h=362mm, w=258mm, d=218mm) but blue axis cannot align following the picture and scale following blue axis is incorrect.
      It looks like a camera "tilt" issue when photo was taken but green and red lines should be enough to correct this, I guess.
      I checked EXIF info but there's nothing about the focal.
      Here's the file if you want to test it: [url]j2l.x10.bz/photomatch_issue.skp[/url]

      Any photo match guru who know how to make it work in this case?

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
        last edited by

        That's not a bug so I moved the topic.

        Very likely the image has been manipulated in an image editor--cropped, surely and possibly had some perspective correction performed on it. If it has, Match Photo won't work perfectly.

        Read the help files on Match Photo. I think you'll get some useful information there.

        Etaoin Shrdlu

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          togethearth
          last edited by

          Thanks Dave for your quick reply.
          I didn't shoot this one but it happened on my, not edited, pictures in the past. Could be small products or big buildings.
          I successfully use match photo for some years now, I read help files and searched forum and re-checked tutorials and never stumble upon this case, I wonder how it can happen.

          Hmm, cropping an image shouldn't change its perspective, I agree that "Free Transform > perspective" tool can change it in Photoshop, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't used on this one because it's not necessary in this case.

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            You might want to reread the help files. Especially read the first line below the photo here.

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              togethearth
              last edited by

              You're right Dave.
              It seems awkward to me but sketchup needs corner centered image.
              Well, now I need to find which side and how much was cropped on each picture to re-center.
              Or may be it's impossible to find?

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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R
                last edited by

                I guess I'd just draw the box and get it as close as possible. Then project the image as a texture and adjust it as best as you can.

                Or maybe it's overkill to use Match Photo for this simple thing in the first place.

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                  jaceguay
                  last edited by

                  I“ve came across this problem some time ago, you could use a program to straighten the vertical lines, hugin it“s a free program and there is a tutorial just for this in their website.
                  http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

                  edit: this is the tutorial, http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/architectural/en.shtml

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                  • DavidBoulderD Offline
                    DavidBoulder
                    last edited by

                    Here is an old post on old post on uncropping a photo. It would also work to fix photos that have had tilt shift done. But I agree, for your example, could just draw a box and then project texture manually, and skew as necessary.

                    http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10895

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                    David Goldwasser
                    OpenStudio Developer
                    National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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