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Two ways to use the Straighten tool

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Two ways to use the Straighten tool

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- [Speaker] In this movie, I'll show you how to automatically straighten and crop an image in one operation, using a tool that's included along with the Crop tool, that's known as the Straighten tool. And so, notice if I zoom in on this photograph here that the horizon is deeping down into the right. That never happens. The horizon should always be straight. Now whether it's flat or not, is another deal. I'm standing on a glacier, so there is bound to be some lumps. But we should ultimately be seeing a horizontal horizon. And so what I'm going to do is switch to the Crop tool. And I want to be able to zoom in a little further and still see the entire horizon line. So I'm going to press Shift tab in order to hide my right side panels. And then Control plus or Command plus on the mac in order to zoom in. And now notice the word 'straighten', up here, in the options bar. That guy right there is the Straighten tool. You…

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