Straighten Any Angled Picture By Using Elements Software

By David Peters

Tossing or tweaking your photographs would not be a great idea if your image is scanned or crooked at an angle. With Adobe Elements Version, you can instead straighten your photograph with several really simple and easy-to-use steps. Photoshop Elements 3 and 4 provide you only the right tools to straighten your tilted or angled photograph. Here's how!

The two predominant tools provided by Photoshop Elements to repair your photograph are the measure tool and the crop tool. The measure tool is used to set a certain level of the photo and straighten it. It can be easily operated by choosing the measure tool from the menu and clicking on one horizon of the document/picture and dragging it to the opposite end of the document.

This would set the level of the document. With this tool, besides a horizon, you could even fix an edgy shelf or a 4 sided roofline to a perfect horizontal level. Now, click the rotate canvas option to rotate the picture and fix it on the canvas. The canvas will expand according to the size of the picture. After that, use crop tool to cut the additional unwanted edges.

Those choosing the crop tool have the benefit of fast straightening since this tool offers both the cropping and straightening options at once. For operating crop tool, select the crop tool and drag a crop marquee. Position the horizontal edge on the horizontal line to set the level of the image. Again, it could be roofline or an edgy shelf instead of a horizon which needs to be fixed in an ideal horizontal position. Now drag the marquee in order that its edge merges with the horizon line. This can be done to align the edge to a horizontal position.

After one edge is set, repeat the same to align other edges. However, remember that if you want to repair the vertical lines on the image, then, do not align them with vertical borders. You may fix them by using 'perspective' option available in the option bar. By choosing the perspective option, you may fix the vertical lines by fixing the corners of the boundary meant to be cropped to the correct perspective. Be sure to keep all the corners in the assigned document.

The perspective element is not available with Photoshop Elements. You may activate it by converting the selected background into a layer by double hitting the background. Crooked shots are a rising issue due to the increase of digital cameras where the photographer clicks the snap while keeping the camera straight and looking at the back screen. This distorts the picture by making it disproportional. Therefore, clicking 4 to 5 shots of the same subject image isn't the only solution.

Doing this wouldn't just waste your camera's battery but also its memory. With the newest and simple to use advanced tools in Photoshop Elements, you can get rid of your angled photo and convert it into a visible pleasure.

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