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Chapter 5: Basic Touchup
Microsoft Digital Image Standard User’s Manual
Straightening a Picture
If you took a photograph while unintentionally holding the camera at an angle,
the horizon or other straight lines will appear tilted. This tilt can be a distrac
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tion in the picture, but is easily fixed with the Straighten Picture tool.
The Straighten Picture tool rotates the picture to make the horizon level.
To make the horizon level, the Straighten Picture tool rotates the picture on
the canvas. When rotated, part of the picture overlaps the edge of the canvas,
and these areas would be removed during printing. The rotation also creates
empty areas at the corners of the canvas. Fortunately, these problems are solved
by the Auto Crop feature which is part of the Straighten Picture tool. After
you straighten the picture, Auto Crop trims the edges of the picture so that it
becomes aligned with the canvas.
To straighten a picture with Auto Crop:
1. On the Format menu, point to Straighten Picture, and then click
Canvas
.
2. Identify a line in the picture that should be straight (such as the horizon),
and then click one end of the line.
3. Click the other end of the line.
The picture is automatically straightened.
4. Make sure the Auto Crop check box is selected.
The area of the picture that will be cropped is shown in lightened color
around the edges.
5. Click Done
.