Great tip as always. Recently took pics that I need to use this for so it’s perfect timing!

U rock! Love this!!!

Julie – I did not have music on it – are you sure the music was not from some other site you were browsing?

Glad this was helpful to everyone.

This is great, much easier than I have been doing it! Thanks

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Great tip! I usually straighten and crop before sending it to Photoshop from ACR, but this is a great tool for the ones I shoot with the S5 and don’t have the option to process a RAW file. Thanks!

I was just trying to figure out how to do this! Thanks for the timely and informative video.

Here’s a better way to do this. Before you do the straighten, turn the background into a layer by ALT-double-click on the LOCK on the layer. This turns it from Background (Locked) into Layer 0. Then, when you straighten, you don’t get your background color as the newly-created area, but instead you get an increased canvas with the image as a rotated layer. Now you can apply layer styles (drop-shadow, etc.) and put a new layer underneath with whatever color (or gradient, or pattern, or whatever) as the background. Much more versatile, I find.

You can also straighten when you crop by moving the mouse outside a corner where you get the “rotate” cursor, then left-click and drag left or right to rotate your crop itself. Note that this isn’t as precise as the ruler method, but works in a pinch.

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I tend to shoot at weird ‘arty’ angles, and often I’d be stuck with a pic I loved, but didn’t know how to straighten out! Now I do!

GREAT tutorial Jodi.. these are always helpful!

Thank. Great tutorial, as always.