pf physio room perspective check

[Damien Symonds]

Great.

[Sarah_]

The carpet looks SO bad. Should I perhaps make it darker overall to match the dark patch rather than lightening the dark patch?

[Damien Symonds]

Whatever you think is the path of least resistance.

[Sarah_]

A muddy mess...should I go back to cloning? 

[Damien Symonds]

May I see a 100% crop, of some good carpet and some "muddy" carpet?

[Sarah_]

Turned off my lighten and darken carpet layers for these.

[Damien Symonds]

Has this difficulty been caused by the fact that the carpet down in the corner of the original photo was unusually textured?

[Sarah_]

I'm sorry, at this point I can't even remember. It certainly wasn't evenly lit or textured.

[Damien Symonds]

No, I'm not asking for guesswork.  I'm just commenting on what I can see.  Is it more textured down there than in more trafficked parts of the room?

[Sarah_]

Sorry. Yes, more texture, a little noise and darker.

[Damien Symonds]

So maybe you should have ignored that part completely, and cloned from smoother areas?

[Sarah_]

Seeing this in my sleep! 

[Damien Symonds]

That looks good at this size.

I wish the skirting board didn't have a bend in it

[Sarah_]

I know! Can I flatten the image and copy/ paste to straighten, then crop & sharpen?

[Damien Symonds]

Gosh no.

May I see your layers panel?

[Sarah_]

It's messy.

[Damien Symonds]

Which layer has the extended skirting board on it?

[Sarah_]

Layer 2.

[Damien Symonds]

1. Turn off all the adjustment layers, so that only "Layer 7" and below are turned on.
2. Make sure Layer 7 is still selected, and hit Cmd Opt Shift E to create a new merged layer.  Convert that to a smart object.
3. Make a new blank layer above that, and draw a line (using the Line Tool (U)) where the skirting board should go.
4. Select the merged layer again, Cmd T to get the transform handles, and Option-click at the exact point where the skirting board bends, to put the centre marker there.  Then rotate to line the skirting board up to the line you drew.
5. Delete the line layer
6. Mask the rotated layer.
7. Turn all the adjustment layers back on.

[Sarah_]

Should it look like this when using the Line tool layer?

[Damien Symonds]

No, that's the rectangle shape!    Click and hold on the tool to get the line tool.

[Sarah_]

It still does the same thing.

[Damien Symonds]

What is the "weight" of the line tool in the Options Bar?

2-4 pixels should be plenty.

[Sarah_]

[Damien Symonds]

No, that's not the line tool.  Click and hold on the tool in the toolbar, and you'll get a little flyout with all the tool varieties.