Comments on: How to Straighten Your Photos in Photoshop

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:10:26 +0000

[...] How to straighten your images in Photoshop [...]

By: Ashley Larsen

Ashley Larsen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:41:59 +0000

Thank. Great tutorial, as always.

By: Stephanie Barnard

Stephanie Barnard — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:46:49 +0000

I’m new here, but just wanted to say, “Great Video!” Looks like I’ll be checking in quite a bit…love the quick and easy tutorials!

Thanks!

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:10:16 +0000

GREAT tutorial Jodi.. these are always helpful!

By: Beth B

Beth B — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:14:17 +0000

Thanks Jodi! Cool trick, cool trick!

By: Carrie V.

Carrie V. — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:03:49 +0000

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!

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:52:42 +0000

I ♥ the video tutorials! Keep em coming!

By: John

John — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:34:53 +0000

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.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:27:29 +0000

Hooray for the ruler tool! I’ve been missing the straightening tool in PSE and have been just using the crop tool for horizon lines and cropping and rotating while eyeballing it.

By: Bree

Bree — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:39:54 +0000

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