How do I straighten a photo?

[Marmalade]

I thought that it would look "artsy" if I took the picture at an angle. Now I'm not so sure. Can I make it level in photoshop? If so how?



thanks

[thingy]

There are probably several methods but one is to click on the Crop tool on your toolbar then hover the mouse outside of the shot and near a corner. Your mouse pointer should change to a curved two headed arrow which you can click and drag your shot around to the desired angle (automatically cropping the required amount).

If you have Lightroom there is a tool within Crop which allows you to draw a line along any edge you wish to make straight (looks like a little ruler).

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[Marmalade]

thanks - maybe I should get the "how to" book for photoshop.

[thingy]

Well if you do I can personally recommend 'Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers' by Martin Evening. It comes with a DVD too with all the required shot for the video and book exercises. There is also a CS2 version and I believe he is currently outselling the likes of Scott Kelby.

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[bostonwolf]

Here is an easy way a friend just showed me:

In your case I'd use the mountains as your horizon and use the ruler on that.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/pho...straighten.htm

[thingy]

The other (and more accurate way) which is similar to Lightroom is to use the Measure tool, also available from the toolbar to click and drag along a vertical or horizontal edge that you want straight. Then when you select Image->Rotate Canvas->Arbitrary it should put the angle in from the previous step automatically. You just then have to choose clockwise or counterclockwise.

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[Marmalade]

cool thanks - I will play with it when I get home from work tonight.

[kl@westnet.com.au]

Originally Posted by Marmalade

I thought that it would look "artsy" if I took the picture at an angle. Now I'm not so sure. Can I make it level in photoshop? If so how?



thanks

just download picasa free from the internet,

[riverfolk]

Just adding my 2 cents for Picasa2. One click straightening

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[Nicole]

Or there's the simple way in Photoshop of using the Filter --> Distort --> Lens Correction and then press the button that looks kind of like /_ and drag the line along something that should be straight. That will straighten it out for you. From there, crop it. Easy as pie