I am editing a hundred or soccer photos for my daughter's team. Many of these photos are taken at awkward angles and need straightening. I am occasionally getting crashes while trying to straighten using the "Straighten Image" tool. It seems to happen most often when there is more than 2 degrees needed, or when I slide the tool one way and then the other. Anyone else have this problem?
Cindy
I've used PHOTOPAINT on different computers with different video cards - ATI, NVIDIA, Intel. Before SP1 PHOTOPAINT X5 crashed every time when I used "Straighten Image". After SP1 it always crashed when I try to work with large images, with small images it usually works well.
I think I made a discovery on this Straighten Image crashing.
I tried several smaller images and Straighten Image did not crash PP. Then I went back and tried several different images that were unchanged, i.e. they came directly from the camera. Those crashed everytime. If I make a duplicate in PPX5 first (Image>Duplicate) and then use Straigten Image, then PP does NOT crash. Would that be the video card doing that? Or is it related to the native color space?
Those of you that experience the crashing, are you working on images saved directly from your camera?
Patti
Yep, same thing works here. I was originally working from a jpeg file that was saved from the photographer's card to a CD, copied to my harddrive.
Hi Cindy,
from what you are saying I take it your crash occurs while you are adjusting the angle of the image in the Straighten Tool interface? I have never crashed adjusting the angle, but I have occasional crashes when hitting the OK button to actually process the rotation once it has been set. I have narrowed down the issue to one of 2 problems: either the Straighten Tool does not like a particular image dimension, or a particular image aspect ratio! My camera produces RAW files at a ratio of 2:3 or 3:2, whichever way you look at it. I use more than one RAW editing program and a couple of them produce images at a different size to the exact pixel count from the camera. One of these pixel counts crashes PPX5 when clicking OK in the Straighten Tool screen EVERY TIME! If I simply grab the crop tool and shave a few pixels off either side the Straighten Tool works flawlessly. If I use images processed by the other RAW editors I have no issues.
I wonder if the exif data from the camera (recording correct pixel dimensions) not matching the processed RAW file dimensions has some influence on this issue? I have no idea.
Best regards,Brian.
The crash occurs when I hit the OK button, not while adjusting the angle. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that.
As far as all the work-arounds, shaving off some pixels, making a duplicate first, etc., that is fine when I'm just working with a few images. If I'm working on an image for a professional print job, I always save as a cpt to begin with anyways.
The "job" I was working on was just a favor to the soccer team, sorting through 800 shots (not from my camera), picking out the "best" 150 or so, cropping, fixing the angles, brightness, contrast, etc. Really didn't want to have to duplicate or change the format for all those photos first. Luckily, I still have X4, and that worked fine.