One of my first lessons in photography was “keep the horizon straight“. Unfortunately this is not always as easy as it sounds. But never fear, Photoshop is here. Here is a quick and easy fix I learned for straightening the horizon in your photos. I believe it will work for all the latest versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
- First load your crooked picture into Photoshop. (duh!)
- Select the Measure Tool. This can be found under the eyedropper tool in the toolbox.
- Select a point on the horizon and then, while holding down the mouse key, drag the cursor across the image to the other side of the horizon. This line will obviously be slanted since your horizon is slanted. By the way, the horizon can be anything. In my case it was the top edge of a wall.
- On the top menu bar go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary.
- You will see the rotate canvas dialog box appear with a number already filled in. This is the correct number. Click O.K.
- You will see that the image is rotated and the horizon is now level. The last step is to select the Crop Tool and crop the image to trim away the white edges.
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