Auto Straightening
Here is hidden little tip that allows you to let Photoshop straighten an image that is off by a few degrees.
Activate the Measure tool, I or Shift-I.
Click-drag from the bottom of the rotated object edge and drag up along that line, then let go at the top. Make sure this line represents the current angle of the object you want to straighten.
Now hold down the Option (Mac) or Alt (PC) key and position the cursor over the top endpoint of your measure line. You should see the cursor change into a protractor. With the Shift key held down drag a perfectly vertical line down and let go. You can think of this last line as your target "angle".
Finally go Edit, Transform, Rotate and... voila' the object is automatically rotated to your target angle.
posted by Guruz @ 1:14 AM
2 Comments:
Wow, in nearly a decade's worth of experience with Photoshop, I had not come across this method for straightening objects. Thanks so much for the tip! It was exactly what I needed.
More steps than necessary.
Using step one, ruler up to measure angle .... then do an arbitrary rotate of the canvas. The measured angle will be automatically stored as the arbitrary value needed to rotate to "straight"
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