Straighten your horizons

November 8, 2007 by Daniel | Filed Under Photography, Photoshop, Tutorial 

Can you find what’s wrong with this photo?

Tilted horizons can often ruin the impression of a photo. Here is a useful tip when you need to quickly straighten the horizon in a photo using photoshop.

Select the Ruler Tool , and make a line following the horizon in your photo.

Now if you go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary… the proper amount of rotation is already filled in.
Click OK.

Now all you have to do is crop the image and you have a photo with a perfectly straight horizon:

You can also use the Crop Tool and do both the rotating and cropping at the same time as below, but I find this method more precise on the rotation. See this post for info on the crop tool.

Daniel

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