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Cropping and straightening

Cropping and straightening - Lightroom Mobile Tutorial

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Cropping and straightening

- [Instructor] When you want to recompose a photo or just straighten a photo that's tilted, use the crop tool in Lightroom on mobile. In the Exercise Files album, I'm going to tap this photo wave to open it in loop view, and then I'll tap the crop tool, which is over in the taskbar on the right side of the screen on an iPad. That opens the Crop and Rotate panel. First, let's try to straighten this photo. Then we'll recompose it by cropping. Notice that the horizon between the sea and the sky is a little crooked. There are a couple ways to try to fix that. In the Crop and Rotate panel, there's a Straighten section that has a level tool. If you just tap that level tool, Lightroom will automatically try to straighten the horizon for you. If you look outside the crop boundary, you'll see that Lightroom has tilted the photo to try to get the horizon straight. Or you can manually straighten the photo by pressing on the…

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