Help with the worst photo I've ever taken!

[Stina3246]

I know this is one of the worst photos I've ever taken (poor lighting, improper equipment, bad set up,wrong settings, the works) so I don't need a critique but these people like it. I'd at least like to make it as good as possible. I'm having a problem getting it straightened up. Every time I try to straighten it it gets fuzzy. I ONLY have Picassa right now. I need to upgrade my computer before I can add anything else. (I actually have photoshop but my computer can't handle it. Can someone PLEASE straighten it for me?
It needs to have the entire banner in it as well as her feet. (She likes her shoes) Thanks for any help you can give me.


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[ARKreations]

This is about the best can be done and still retain the required elements.
If you need room to frame it, you can always stretch the canvas and add a border.

[Stina3246]

Originally Posted by ARKreations

This is about the best can be done and still retain the required elements.
If you need room to frame it, you can always stretch the canvas and add a border.

Thanks so much! May I ask what program you used?

[IABoomer]

Rotated, cropped, and slightly sharpened. Ideally, I'd have a bigger source image.

Edit: late to the party. I used GIMP for this.

[Stina3246]

Originally Posted by IABoomer

Rotated, cropped, and slightly sharpened. Ideally, I'd have a bigger source image.

Edit: late to the party. I used GIMP for this.

Awesome! Thanks. Forgive me for being ignorant but
"Ideally I'd have a slightly bigger source image"?
Do you mean Raw instead if JPG? or something like that? I acually shot in raw but when I edited them they were automatically saved in jpg. Maybe I can find the original.....

[IABoomer]

By bigger, I was thinking more pixels. The image you have here is 425x640. Looking at the EXIF data, the original image was 2824x1876.

[Stina3246]

Originally Posted by IABoomer

By bigger, I was thinking more pixels. The image you have here is 425x640. Looking at the EXIF data, the original image was 2824x1876.

I loaded the image through image shak. I think it resizes them. I have the origianl raw photo but don't know how to load it here directly without going through a photo hosting site.

[TheDarkReaver]

Flickr will allow download and display of the original image size.

[IABoomer]

If you upload it to Imageshack, on the homepage, there's a link that says "Upload Options / Resizing >>"

If you click that link, you should be able to disable the resize, so you can have the full size image on Imageshack. Once it's uploaded, you can copy the link to the image, not the forum embed code, and people can click that link for the full size image.

Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver

Flickr will allow download and display of the original image size.

Only if the user has a pro account. Otherwise, the max is the "Large" 1024 pixel size.

[jujitsu1]

I had a go at straighening it and also done a levels layer on it too