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Straightening a crooked image

Straightening a crooked image - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Straightening a crooked image

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you two ways to straighten a crooked image. First, I'll show you how to work with the Straighten tool, which has the advantage of being included along with the Crop tool, and then I'll show you a better but less obvious method that involves the Ruler tool. I'll go ahead and switch over to this image which features a view from the London Eye. And notice that I'm immediately seeing this vertical crop boundary here, and that's because my ratio is still set to seven by eight. To get rid of that, I'll go ahead and click on the Clear button, but notice that that does not immediately restore the crop boundary. What I have to do is press the Escape key, and then, click inside the image again to make the crop boundary as large as the image. Now notice that the image is crooked. So you can see that the horizon line is higher on the right than it is on the left, so obviously, this image needs to be straightened. And you can do so using this Straighten…

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