From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
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Straightening a crooked image - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
Straightening a crooked image
- [Instructor] There's several ways that you can straighten an image in Photoshop. The first is to select the Crop tool, so tap the C key and then select the Straighten Tool in the Options bar. Now we just need to drag, either a horizontal or vertical line in the image and release the mouse in order to straighten it. You'll notice that the Straighten tool is constrained to within the original canvas. So by default, no extra transparent areas were added. All though, you can always resize the Crop Marquee if necessary. To temporarily access the Straighten tool while you're in the Crop tool, just hold down the Command key on Mac or the Control key on Windows, and then drag with the Straighten tool. Now the second method is also with the Crop tool, all we need to do is position our cursor outside of the crop and then click and drag to rotate, which you'll notice also constrains the crop to within the original canvas size.…
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