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Straightening a crooked image

Straightening a crooked image - Photoshop Tutorial

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Straightening a crooked image

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- [Instructor] There are several ways that you can straighten an image in Photoshop. In the next few minutes, we're going to take a look at three of the most common. So the first is to select the crop tool. So I'll tap C, and then I'm going to right click or control click on Mac on the crop icon in the options bar and just reset the tool to its default settings. Here we're working on a single layer background document, and I'm going to select the straightened tool. I've got the delete cropped pixels enable, and then I'll just click and drag a horizontal line across the horizon of my image. When I release the cursor, Photoshop puts back the straightened tool and rotates the image based on the angle that I drew. If you don't have a good horizontal line, but a vertical line instead, you can also drag a vertical line and have Photoshop rotate it to that angle. Now because the setting is set to delete crop pixels on our layers…

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