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Straightening a crooked image

Straightening a crooked image - Photoshop Tutorial

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Straightening a crooked image

- [Instructor] There are several ways that you can straighten an image in Photoshop. The first would be to select the crop tool, so I'll tap the C key and then choose the straighten tool in the options bar. Then we can just drag the tool in the image area. And if we have a reference point like a horizontal line or a vertical line, when we release the cursor, Photoshop will go ahead and straighten that. We can also access the straighten tool temporarily by holding down the Command key on Mac or the Control key on Windows while in the crop marquee. The second way is also with the crop tool. I can simply position my cursor outside of the crop. I get the double-headed arrows, and then I can just drag in order to rotate the image. All right I'll cancel out of there, because I want to show you one additional way. And that's using the ruler tool. So the ruler tool is nested with the eyedropper tool. I'll select that, and then…

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