It is pretty easy to straighten images in Photoshop CS6. The new and improved Crop tool lets you straighten images as well.
- Select the Crop tool.
- Click Straighten from the control bar on top.
- Draw a line along an edge that should have been straight. For example, draw a line along the horizon, or perhaps the edge of a building. Photoshop will automatically rotate the image by the right amount, resize the canvas, and show you a live preview of what the final image will look like
The no-longer leaning tower. Original image from Wikimedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leaning_tower_of_pisa_2.jpg
- Press Enter/Return to commit the change.
Note: If you want the option to revisit your decision about the crop, uncheck Delete Cropped Pixels in the Control bar. Enabling this option will perform a non-destructive crop.
#1 by Robert Lowdon on July 31, 2012 - 10:13 am
I must say Thank You for updating the cropping tool! This is a vast improvement over previous versions.
#2 by Malik on December 30, 2012 - 5:59 am
I look at the stuff on my website and I have thnigs from when I started back in July to what I have now. I can tell you different programs give you way different outcomes and I started with Pixlr(dot)com and went to Gimp (which I really like) and now to Photoshop (which I’m getting used to). check out my channel too.
#3 by Alex on January 4, 2013 - 10:42 am
The update on the cropping tool is a big improvement.
#4 by Mike on April 18, 2013 - 5:46 am
How do you “draw a line along an edge”?
If I use the crop tool, select Straighten, I get an arrow pointer. If I try to click and drag that along the edge I want to indicate, it just moves the whole image off the canvas.