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Great tip!

i disagree. bad tip. from the introduction, i expected something fancy, like perspective correction, horizon alignment and barrel distorsion correction all at the same time. if you’re just going to crop the image so your horizon becomes, well, horizontal, just use the crop tool; grab a corner of the rectangle showing the resulting frame and rotate it until it’s aligned with whatever you want to align it with. press enter. no measuring, no manually-entering-the-number-ing. i know, i know, at first it might seem non-intuitive and, frankly, a little weird to choose the crop tool if what you want to do is to crop something, but you’ll get used to it.

Nex: I’m not sure if I understand – of course you can use the crop tool to rotate, but it’s darn tricky to get things exactly straight, I find. Also, there is no manually entering the number – it’s entered for you, by Photoshop

YMMV, of course – I do use the crop tool when I’m in a hurry – this one is good for precision, though.

The trial and error method of the Crop Tool can be a little frustrating unless you have a really great eye for angles. The Ruler Tool sounds to me to be a great short cut! Now if I could just find it on CS2 I will use it.

Dick, on CS (I don’t have CS2 yet), the measurement tool is under the same palette button as the eyedropper.

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In CS2, you can use the Straighten Tool (Filter/Distort/Lens Correction) in Lens Correction, icon in upper left corner of the tool. You draw a horizontal line and CS2 will straighten the photo based on your line .. as well as correct for other optical abberations.

The crop tool can be used in a way as accurate as the measurement tool without trial and error. And it saves a step.
What you do is select a smaller area and use an edge of your crop to align, by dragging a corner of your crop selection, then expand your crop without changing that precise angle and commit the crop. Done.

thanks, ford, for expanding my suggestion to something more clear. i’m not sure from which photoshop version you’re able to rotate the crop rectangle (haven’t got anything earlier than 7 here), so this might have been a source of confusion. but as you said, if you can rotate that rectangle, it’s of course every bit as presice as using the ruler.

here’s another tip: you can’t use the crop tool to enter precise numbers (e.g. for the angle), but you can _display_ the presice numbers by opening the info palette and adjust the rectangle accordingly.

Nex-
I think Photoshop 7 was the first to allow rotation of the crop selection. It’s kind of an essential feature, I think.

Thanks for great tip! I have a strange problem in Photoshop on my work, when I canät rotate an image precizely using crop tool, your tip saved me the day!

I was looking for this tip for the past several months. Now I got two nice tips instead of one (one from your article and one from the discussion). Thanks.

Some people have written about the crop rotation bug in photoshop. I have investigated this bug a little deeper, look here:

http://bugreporter.blogger.de/topics/Photoshop+CS2+Bugs/

i come to this situation a lot and wanted to try it but i dont understand where to find this tool (it looks like a little ruler), thing.

i have photoshop cs, is this available for this version

and here’s how to easily crop the image correctly after rotating it:

http://www.shutterfreaks.com/Tips/GuideCropping.html

It’s a wonder the ‘Crop Rotation Bug’ didn’t set agriculture back hundreds of years!

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the best and easiest way is the distortion lens correction filter but you can use the crop tool to. just use the perspective option and work with the selection edge to make it fit to a straight line then expand it to the maximum or to the point you wish to keep the picture.

for those of us who have only the really old versions without all the neat new features & don’t use photoshop often enough to justify the upgrade
I thank you so much for this tip.

i found this link useful as well

http://www.mutinydesign.co.uk/web-design-resources/how-to-rotate-an-imag...

here is another tutorial i found of use
http://www.mutinydesign.co.uk/web-design-resources/how-to-rotate-an-imag...

excellent, thanks a lot

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I think Photoshop 7 was the first to allow rotation of the crop selection. It’s kind of an essential feature, I think.

Thanks for great tip!

Thanks for the help , been wondering how to do this for along time . cheers