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Straighten a Crooked Photo

Friday May 25, 2007
If you have a picture that was taken with the camera tilted or scanned at an angle, Photoshop offers two tools to fix this quickly--the measure tool and the crop tool. Here are step-by step instructions for straightening a crooked photo or scan in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, plus a way to correct perspective at the same time.
Straighten a Crooked Photo with Photoshop's Measure Tool or Crop Tool
Illustrated Tutorial: How to Straighten a Crooked Image with the Crop Tool in Photoshop or Elements

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May 26, 2007 at 3:32 pm
(1) Tor says:

This is easier done in Photoshop 5.0 using the straiteningtool with the option Crop to Remove Background…

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