Creating a perspective view of a JPEG file

cwoodham

Does anyone know of a free utility to take a jpeg (or other image file) and rotate it in 3D to create a perspective view and then save it? Thanks

hubert_cumberdale

photoshop numerous ways

holding select the image and hold alt or control and drag each corner
do a 3d wrap on it

microsoft word as well perhaps the new versions

it will never look that good

what image is it i maybe able to do it in the 3d cad package im using right now at work

cwoodham

Thanks for that but can't afford Photoshop Anyone know of a free utility?

Stompa

cwoodham wrote: »

Does anyone know of a free utility to take a jpeg (or other image file) and rotate it in 3D to create a perspective view and then save it? Thanks

When you say "rotate it in 3D to create a perspective view" do you mean as if you were viewing a photo from an angle rather than directly from the front?

If so, you could probably achieve that sort of effect using:

http://pixlr.com/editor/

maybe using 'Edit > Free distort'.

hubert_cumberdale

microsoft word can do things like that hold on i will show you

hubert_cumberdale

i did this in microsfot outlook

im not sure exactly what you are after this was done fast and im not sure why i had a picture of a crab on my computer

cwoodham

Thanks to you both for your replies.

Stompa - I got it to work using Free Distort in Pixlr as you suggested. Couldn't get the canvas to rotate with the image so ended up with a transparent rectangular canvas with the rotated image on it. I'm not an expert with image editing so perhaps rotating the canvas with the image or cropping it to fit the image isn't possible.

Hubert - thanks for the demo. I got it to work in Word 2010, but when I saved the image as a jpeg, it reverted back to the non perspective view. I can save the perspective image okay in Word format.

jbreckmckye

Just do it in GIMP already!

Stompa

cwoodham wrote: »

Stompa - I got it to work using Free Distort in Pixlr as you suggested. Couldn't get the canvas to rotate with the image so ended up with a transparent rectangular canvas with the rotated image on it. I'm not an expert with image editing so perhaps rotating the canvas with the image or cropping it to fit the image isn't possible.

You can do rotation with 'Edit > Free transform'. I guess you may need to do this either before or after the 'Edit > Free distort', it rather depends on exactly what you're trying to achieve.