need help processing this image

im still playing around with processing styles and this image quality sucks in the sample thanks to skydrive being down today (so no need to comment on that)

any how

what i need to do it straighten the bottles. i guess the bar was slanted?

i cant rotate the image or else the background looks tilted.

im usually pretty good in PS but i'm at a loss on how to do this short of a local copy and paste and rotate and then blend, which im not looking forward to. liquify didnt work at all..

any help is appreciated... unless you think its fine as is...

The bar is not level but its a trivial matter to rotate the photo so that its level by drawing a horizontal line with the Ruler too, then going to Image > Image Rotation > Arbitrary and it will automatically rotate to match the horizontal line that was drawn earlier.

Or if you have Photoshop CS5 or later you can use Content Aware Fill to both rotate the image, and fill in the white spaces caused by rotating it. Here's a simple tutorial: http://youtu.be/SHmAJA​ifatw

the laws of physics indicate that water (whiskey in this case) always finds level..

right so the bar isnt level, good call.

Pixel, i know how to rotate image but i cant any further.., if i do the background bar and lines on he blinds make the way crooked.

Did you do any lens corrections?

i tried, didn't work.. the problem is as was point out, the bar isnt level, you can see the liquid in the bottle is slanted.

Well, I guess that's where I would start since there's some distortion in the image. It can't be done on the posted image since it doesn't have the EXIF metadata. The liquid in one bottle is level while the other is obviously tilted.

it was shot with an 85/1.8 there isn't much distortion to work with.

Try the "Adaptive Wide Angle" filter in Photoshop. That tool lets you draw lines anywhere in the image and say "straighten this" and make it horizontal or vertical. Drawn lines can be any length and the leveling occurs only along the length.

It's an amazing tool, but can be kind of hit-or-miss because it reads EXIF lens data and automatically applies corrections based on that. Takes some practice to learn the best approach.

Redcrown wrote in post #17007445
Try the "Adaptive Wide Angle" filter in Photoshop. That tool lets you draw lines anywhere in the image and say "straighten this" and make it horizontal or vertical. Drawn lines can be any length and the leveling occurs only along the length.

It's an amazing tool, but can be kind of hit-or-miss because it reads EXIF lens data and automatically applies corrections based on that. Takes some practice to learn the best approach.

awesome , thanks, i'll give it a go.

That's an in interesting illusion ... if you stare at the center of the picture long enough, two whiskey bottles can be seen.

There is possibly a small amount of keystoning in the background which could be tweaked a bit in Camera Raw -- as if somebody cares about the background. The image may be tilted slightly judging from the top and bottom of the windows. The bar is probably level and more than likely there is some slosh going on in the whiskey bottle. If we were to use the whiskey as a "spirit level", the bar would have to be so far out of level that we could only conclude that it was installed by an intoxicated carpenter. There is no need to fix things that aren't really a problem. The problem with tweaking perspective distortion where it doesn't matter is that the part that matters will be distorted.