Straighten crooked photos in Photoshop Lightroom
In this short video tutorial, you’ll discover another use for the Crop tool in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™. Not only can you use it to crop out a portion of an image, but you can also use it to straighten a crooked image. Matt Kloskowski of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals will show you how.
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Where to go from here
For more information about Photoshop Lightroom, check out the following resources:
- Remove redeye with Photoshop Lightroom, by Matt Kloskowski
- Boost an image's saturation, by Martin Evening
- Keep your images organized by using keywords, by Scott Kelby
- Manage before and after previews in Photoshop Lightroom, by Martin Evening
About the author
Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is a speaker at trade shows and events around the world. He’s a co-host of the top rated video podcast Photoshop TV and has written six books on Photoshop and Illustrator including the Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic, Photoshop CS2 Savvy and Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips. Matt is featured on various training DVDs available from www.photoshopvideos.com and is a regular writer for Photoshop User magazine, Layers magazine, and is the Editor-in-chief of the Photoshop Elements Techniques Newsletter. He’s an instructor at Photoshop World and the Mac Live Conference and teaches basic and advanced Photoshop classes for Sessions.edu online school of design. Matt is also an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop as well as a Macromedia Flash Certified Developer.
Excerpted from “Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips,” a weekly videocast and website blog produced by Matt Kloskowski at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). Copyright © 2007. Used with the permission of Matt Kloskowski. To see more, visit www.lightroomkillertips.com.
