If your photos are crooked or were scanned into your computer at an angle you don’t need to toss them out. Instead, use Adobe Elements to quickly and easily straighten them out again. Here is how you can use Adobe Elements to straighten your crooked or tilted photo.

To adjust your lopsided photo you will want to use the measure tool and the crop tool. The measure tool is used to define the level of the photo and then straighten it. You can do this by clicking on the measure tool from the menu and then clicking on the background of your photo then dragging it in a straight line to the other end. This process is basically setting the level of your photo. If you need to adjust other items that should be horizontal, such as roof lines, you can use this tool as well. Your image should now be a bit skewed so you want to click on the rotate canvas option to rotate the image and fix it on the canvas. One thing that should be happening here is that your canvas should be resizing itself to fit your photo size. Lastly you will use the crop tool to remove the extra unwanted edges.

When you use the crop tool you have the option of cropping and straightening at the same time. To use the crop tool you will want to select it and click and hold your mouse, creating a rectangle around the part of the photo that you wish to keep. You will want to position the horizontal edge on the horizontal line to set the level of the image. Again, you may be wanting to fix a roof line or an edgy shelf instead of a horizon which needs to be fixed in a perfect horizontal position. Now you want to drag the marquee so that its edge merges with the horizon line. This is done to align the edge to a horizontal position.

To align the rest of the edges simply repeat the same steps. Understand that if you want to fix vertical lines on your image you do not want to align them with vertical borders. To correct vertical lines you need to use the ‘perspective’ option available in the option bar. The perspective option allows you to 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 aligned as well.

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.