Straightening a picture

"Robert Leggat" wrote in message

I was at a computer exhibition in Birmingham recently, and the Adobe expert was showing how one can straighten a picture without guessing how many degrees. Lovely idea. The trouble is that by the time I had reached home, I could not remember how to do it, and I’ve searched through Photoshop CS2 and can’t find it. Can someone please remind me?

Under the eye-dropper is the measure tool – drag this out across the horizon or whatever you want to align to – then go to image menu – rotate canvas – arbitrary!!
This works with both the horizontal or vertical!! you could also straighten using a lamp post for instance.

Robert Leggat asks …

I was at a computer exhibition in Birmingham recently, and the Adobe expert was showing how one can straighten a picture without guessing how many degrees. Lovely idea. The trouble is that by the time I had reached home, I could not remember how to do it, and I’ve searched through Photoshop CS2 and can’t find it. Can someone please remind me?

This is for CS and earlier, probably the same in CS2 but no guarantees …. in the Toolbox click the mouse over the Eyedropper Tool icon to call up the fly-out and select the Measure Tool … draw a straight line with this where you wish to do the correction, then do Image – Rotate Canvas – Arbitrary and the angle of the line you just drew shows up in the Angle box.

Bill

Robert Leggat wrote:

I was at a computer exhibition in Birmingham recently, and the Adobe expert was showing how one can straighten a picture without guessing how many degrees. Lovely idea. The trouble is that by the time I had reached home, I could not remember how to do it, and I’ve searched through Photoshop CS2 and can’t find it. Can someone please remind me?

Use the Measure tool to draw a line which you want to be horizontal — for example, draw a line on the horizon. Then use Image>Rotate Canvas>Arbitrary. The number of degrees of rotation will automatically be filled-in and all you need to do is hit "Enter."

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Tom

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"Bill Hilton" wrote:

This is for CS and earlier, probably the same in CS2 … <snip>

Man, you and Harry are FAST! 😉

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Tom

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"Harry Limey" wrote:

Under the eye-dropper is the measure tool – drag this out across the horizon or whatever you want to align to – then go to image menu – rotate canvas – arbitrary!!

Brilliant. Thanks for that!

And just in case others are as puzzled as I was, I found, after a quarter of an hour’s delving in Photoshop help, that "under the eyedropper" means that if you right click on the eyedropper in the toolbar the measure tool will be one of the options that pops up.

James McNangle

On 5/3/06 6:57 PM, James McNangle commented:

"Harry Limey" wrote:

Under the eye-dropper is the measure tool – drag this out across the horizon or whatever you want to align to – then go to image menu – rotate canvas – arbitrary!!

Brilliant. Thanks for that!

And just in case others are as puzzled as I was, I found, after a quarter of an
hour’s delving in Photoshop help, that "under the eyedropper" means that if you
right click on the eyedropper in the toolbar the measure tool will be one of the
options that pops up.

James McNangle

Several of the tools are like that. Check ’em out;)

"Harry Limey" wrote in message

"Robert Leggat" wrote in message

I was at a computer exhibition in Birmingham recently, and the Adobe expert was showing how one can straighten a picture without guessing how many degrees. Lovely idea. The trouble is that by the time I had reached home, I could not remember how to do it, and I’ve searched through Photoshop CS2 and can’t find it. Can someone please remind me?

Under the eye-dropper is the measure tool – drag this out across the horizon or whatever you want to align to – then go to image menu – rotate canvas – arbitrary!!
This works with both the horizontal or vertical!! you could also straighten using a lamp post for instance.

kool never knew that
mostly I retouch people but it happens this week I am doing some products and that trick will come in handy.

"James McNangle" wrote in message

hour’s delving in Photoshop help, that "under the eyedropper" means that if you
right click on the eyedropper in the toolbar the measure tool will be one of the
options that pops up.

longer left click will do the same.
black triangle in lower right corner marks "multiple" tools…

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