# Windows photo editing that can "flip" or stretch frame by a few degrees? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-photo-editing-that-can-flip-or-stretch-frame-by-a-few-degrees/666537 "2013-08-18T04:31:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-photo-editing-that-can-flip-or-stretch-frame-by-a-few-degrees/666537/21 "2013-08-18T23:25:09Z")
I’ve successfully fixed old paper photographs that I’ve scanned into digital formats. Of course, you have to crop out the left and right sides at a minimum, but it does look better. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-photo-editing-that-can-flip-or-stretch-frame-by-a-few-degrees/666537/22 "2013-08-19T18:47:11Z")
It’s difficult to get photos like this to look absolutely perfect if it was shot with a non tilt-shift lens. It’s not a matter of just rotating it, as the relationships of all the angles to each other change with perspective. When I have something like this that has to look absolutely ‘right’, I usually wind up using the mesh warp feature in photoshop and just manually tweak the mapping of the entire image on the plane until I’m happy with the result. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-photo-editing-that-can-flip-or-stretch-frame-by-a-few-degrees/666537/23 "2013-08-20T00:50:55Z")
Moved Cafe Society --\> IMHO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-photo-editing-that-can-flip-or-stretch-frame-by-a-few-degrees/666537.md?page=1)