Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Straightening Your Pics With Photoshop Elements

Tossing or tweaking your photographs wouldn't be a great idea if your photograph is crooked or scanned at an angle. With Adobe, you can instead straighten your photograph with some really simple and easy-to-use steps. Adobe Element 3 and Element 4 provide you provide you just the right tools to straighten your tilted or angled photograph. Here’s how! The two predominant tools provided by Adobe to fix your photograph are the measure tool and the crop tool. The measure tool is used to set a definite level of the picture and straighten it. It can be easily operated by selecting the measure tool from the menu and clicking on one horizon of the document / picture and dragging it to the other end of the document. Doing this would set the level of the document. With this tool, apart from a horizon, you could even fix an edgy shelf or a four sided roof line to a perfect horizontal level. Now, click the rotate canvas option to rotate the image and fix it on the canvas. The canvas will expand in accordance with the size of the picture. Then, use crop tool to cut the extra unwanted edges.

Those opting for the crop tool have the advantage of prompt straightening as this tool offers both the cropping and straightening options at one time. For operating the 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 roof line or an edgy shelf instead of a horizon which needs to be fixed in a perfect horizontal position. Now drag the marquee so that its edge merges with the horizon line. This is done to align the edge to a horizontal position. After one edge is fixed, repeat the same to align the rest of the edges. However, note that if you want to fix the vertical lines on your image, then, do not align them with vertical borders. You can correct them by using ‘perspective’ option available in the option bar. By selecting the perspective option, you can correct the vertical lines by fixing the corners of the boundary meant to be cropped to the right perspective. Make sure to keep all the corners in the assigned document.

The perspective element is not available with Photoshop elements. You can however activate it by converting the chosen background into a layer by double clicking on the background. Crooked shots are a rising problem due to the upsurge 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. Hence, clicking 4-5 shots of the same subject image is not the only solution. Doing this would not only waste your camera’s battery but also its memory. With the latest and easy to use advanced tools in Adobe Elements, you can get rid of your angled picture and convert it into a visual pleasure.
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