June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 34m
English
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Straightening Photos
What about all those photos you’ve taken where the content isn’t quite straight? You can flip those pictures around forever, but if your camera was off-kilter when you snapped the shot, then your subjects lean like a certain tower in Pisa. Elements has planned for this problem too, by including a nifty Straighten tool that makes adjusting the horizon as easy as drawing a line.
Tip
About 95 percent of the time, the Straighten tool does the trick, But for the few cases where you can’t get things looking perfect, you can still use the old school Elements method—the Free Rotate command, which is described on the next page.
Straighten Tool
Ever since Elements first came out, people have been asking Adobe for an easier way to straighten the content of their photos. Starting with Elements 4, Adobe came through in a big way with its Straighten tool. If you can draw a line, you can straighten a photo with this tool.
To straighten your photo:
Open a crooked photo, and then activate the Straighten tool.
The Straighten tool lives just below the Cookie Cutter tool in the toolbox. Its icon is two little photos, one crooked and one not. To activate the Straighten tool, click the icon or press P.
Use the Options bar to choose how you want the Straighten tool to handle the edges of your photo.
Once your picture’s straightened, the edges are going to be a bit ragged, so you can choose what you want Elements to do about that:
Grow Canvas to Fit. Elements adds extra space around ...
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