Photoshop CS6 Unlocked, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6Adjusting Images

Often, you’ll find yourself working with photos that particularly ordinary. You know what I’m talking about. We’ve all seen them (you may even have taken some of them!): the overexposed, the underexposed, the “whoops, I forgot to turn on the flash,” and the scary red-eye snaps. It’s just as well that we’ve made friends with Photoshop, because it has some handy tools that we can use to salvage those photos. In the following solutions, I’ll introduce you to these tools. The ways in which you use them will depend on the images you work with, though, so feel free to make adjustments so that these techniques work for you.

Straightening Crooked Images

Photoshop’s improved Crop Tool (C) allows you to easily straighten images. ...