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Offline rcowan

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How do you compensate for a skewed background image?
« on: January 16, 2016, 06:13:30 PM »
I was wondering how you guys are managing the images of your house when doing the layout. Take the attached picture of the upstairs of my house as an example. I took this pic from ground level out in the street. The two lines at the top that are circled are actually at the same level. Because the right half of my house sticks out about 4 feet from the left, the 2D picture makes it seem like the right side is a tad higher. Where I've seen this as being a problem is when doing a whole effect such as a Curtain starting at the bottom and going up. When it gets to that top line it does the one on the left first and then the one on the right. In reality they should both be done at the same time. I could just move one of the lines up or down to compensate but then I'm afraid the distance between the horizontals and verticals will be off. I'm thinking of going out with my drone and taking another pic from a little bit higher up so that way the pic won't be so skewed. I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and what they did about it.
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Re: How do you compensate for a skewed background image?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2016, 06:40:26 PM »
Ha! I fixed that problem by not using a picture at all.

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Re: How do you compensate for a skewed background image?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2016, 06:42:25 PM »
Ha! I fixed that problem by not using a picture at all.
Thanks Jon!  :P
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Re: How do you compensate for a skewed background image?
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2016, 07:17:32 PM »
I just get things close and don't worry about it.  It will look fine when you run it for real.