April 8, 2009

How to straighten a crooked photo (The Ruler and Crop tools)

Frequently we must use a photo that was taken with the camera titled or just we want to use it at a different angle. We can achieve something like that in Photoshop either by rotating our image (for that we can use the Move tool or choose the Edit > Transform > Rotate command), or by using the Ruler one. The Ruler tool enables us to find distances and angles in our image (the results appear in the upper part of our screen, above the main menu). As we can see at the video tutorial we drag the Ruler tool along a line in our photo that should be at a different angle and choose the Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary command. After that process we can use the rotated image but very often its sides will have to be cropped. Obviously we can do that easy with the use of the Crop tool.
In the video above we see how to use these two Photoshop tools.
Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:MattyBoy7777