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Hi Beth,
Good post questions!
You are correct to point out that one needs to take care to not have skewed or keystoned images, or the test drawing in the overlay will give false results. That is a whole another chapter to explain how to correct skew, aspect ratio, or keystone/perspective distortions. One of us should take the time to do that though. This is not rocket science either. As I just pointed out in another current thread about photographing paintings, I routinely take skewed pictures of my paintings (to avoid head-on glare), and then I remove the distortions in Photoshop (EDIT/TRANSFORM/DISTORT).
Beth if you can find a shortcut that does not use the calculator step, by all means share it with us! I know that one can change the scale of the overlay layer in EDIT/TRANSFORM/SCALE, but I have not seen how it is possible to constrain proportions in the process. If there is a way, then show me.
Thanks for resolving the question about PS Elements 2.0.
Garth
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