Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial page 120

image vertically or horizontally. If necessary, this tool also automatically resizes or crops the canvas to accommodate straightening of the image.
Manually straighten an image
1. Select the Straighten tool.
2. Choose from the available option buttons:
Grow Or Shrink Canvas To Fit
outside of the current canvas. The straightened image will contain areas of blank background, but no pixels are clipped.
Crop To Remove Background
straightening. Some pixels will be clipped.
Crop To Original Size Keeps the canvas the same size as the original image. The straightened image will include areas of
blank background and some pixels will be clipped.
Straightening and cropping to remove the background
Note: The three straighten options are enabled when the Rotate All Layers options is enabled.
3. Select Rotate All Layers, to straighten all of the layers in the image.
4. To straighten the image, do one of the following:
To align horizontally, draw a line in the image to represent the new straight horizontal edge. For example, you may have
the image of a sunset with an improperly aligned horizon. Draw a horizontal line parallel to the horizon.
To align vertically, click the starting point, hold down Ctrl (Command in Mac), and drag to represent the new straight
vertical line. For example, you may have the image of a person in a room that does not seem correctly aligned. Press Ctrl
(Command in Mac), and draw a vertical line parallel to the vertical edge of a shelf, or lampstand.
Automatically straighten an image
To automatically straighten the image and leave the canvas around the image, choose Image > Rotate > Straighten Image.
The straightened image contains areas of blank background, but no pixels are clipped.
To automatically straighten and crop the image, choose Image > Rotate > Straighten And Crop Image. The straightened image
does not contain areas of blank background, but some pixels are clipped.
Divide a scanned image containing multiple photos
If you scanned several pictures at once on a flatbed scanner, you can automatically divide and straighten the scanned image into its component
photos. The photos must have a clear separation between them.
Separating images scanned from one page into three separate images
Choose Image > Divide Scanned Photos. Photoshop Elements automatically divides the image and places each photo in a
separate file.
Resizes the canvas to fit the rotated image. Straightening causes corners of the image to fall
Crops the image to remove any blank background area that becomes visible after
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