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Straighten an Image in Quick Fix

Lesson 11 from: Learn How to Use Photoshop Elements

Khara Plicanic

Straighten an Image in Quick Fix

Lesson 11 from: Learn How to Use Photoshop Elements

Khara Plicanic

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Lesson Info

11. Straighten an Image in Quick Fix

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Class Introduction

02:57
2

Understand How Elements Works

05:53
3

Importing Images

11:31
4

Workspace Basics: Organizer

14:47
5

Workspace Basics: Editor

16:12
6

Tonal Adjustments in Quick Fix

09:59
7

Color Adjustments in Quick Fix

07:58
8

Apply Black & White Filters

04:01
9

Sharpen an Image

03:33
10

Fix Red Eye & Pet Eye

03:05
11

Straighten an Image in Quick Fix

03:01
12

Explanation of Photoshop Elements

08:23
13

Basic Cropping in Quick Fix

14:13
14

Guided Edit Overview

02:46
15

Guided Edit: Tilt Shift

04:07
16

Ways to Save Files

14:37
17

Layers & Simple Selections

20:47
18

Combine Images with Layers

15:34
19

How to Use Layer Styles

15:11
20

Make Selections with Layers

11:05
21

Make Selection with Lasso

10:43
22

Compositing with Multiple Images

17:11
23

Refine Edge Selection on Image

19:52
24

Use Refine Edge on Images

12:40
25

Create Gradient in Image

02:35
26

Gradient Map Differences

42:38
27

Options for Saving

11:40
28

Brushes Overview

15:12
29

Creatively Use Brushes

07:19
30

How to Change Brush Settings

07:17
31

Use Shape Tool with Brushes

08:22
32

Work with Multiple Shape Layers

08:53
33

Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool

03:21
34

How to Load Brushes into Elements

04:59
35

Add Layer Style to Image

04:46
36

Clip Image to Shape & Use as Template

05:49
37

Retouching Overview

04:11
38

How to Use Content-Aware Fill

05:47
39

How to Use Content-Aware Move Tool

09:38
40

Spot Healing Brush on Blemishes

08:53
41

Remove Frown Lines with Retouching

05:51
42

How to Remove Tattoos

20:32
43

Remove a Gap in Teeth

03:52
44

How to Whiten Teeth

07:17
45

Adjust Facial Features

03:29
46

Working with Type Overview

23:17
47

Match Type for Image

12:11
48

How to Manipulate Type Layers

08:02
49

Create Postcard with Type

16:08
50

Add Type on a Path

16:59
51

Organizing Images in Elements

16:03
52

Add Keywords to Images

19:49
53

Smart Tags Overview

07:51
54

Using Albums in Elements

24:52
55

Places Workspace Overview

06:20
56

Use Event Tags on Images

04:56
57

Timeline for Image Organization

02:45
58

Recommended Workflow

07:26

Lesson Info

Straighten an Image in Quick Fix

One last thing here that's really pretty cool is the ability to straighten our images. So I know that you guys at home never do this where you take a photo that is a little bit crooked. I'm the only person, I'm sure, who does. But I'm really grateful then that I have this tool. If you were to accidentally take a crooked photo as well, you might also find this really handy. Over here in the tool bar there is this tool that looks like a level that you would use when you're hanging cabinets or hanging a photo or something. So this is the tool we want, it's just called the Straighten tool. Incidentally, any of these tools, you'll notice when the tag pops up and there's a letter in parentheses, that letter represents the keyboard shortcut for that tool. So that means that wherever I am, if I've got the Move tool down here, and I want to grab the Straighten tool, I can just press P on my keyboard and it'll switch. So the way that this works is pretty simple. You find a photo that's crooked a...

nd you want to straighten it. And all you have to do is click along this line that you want to straighten. So in this case it's my horizon. So I'm clicking here and I'm holding my mouse down, and I'm just gonna drag along that crooked line, and then I'm gonna let go, and PhotoShop's gonna measure that crooked slope and then it's gonna straighten it. And then, because I told it to maintain the image size and auto-fill the edges, it went ahead, straightened the image, and then filled in the edges for me. So I didn't even have to crop this photo. Normally you would have to crop. When you straighten a photo there's always gonna be some cropping, unless you're working with an image where you can do this. Now this auto-fill in the edges is not gonna work on every photo. This image was a good candidate because it's just a blurry, rainy sunset photo shot through a window. But if I had a lot of detail here, if I had a photo of, like I'm at a football game and there's a lot of people in the crowd or something, auto-filling in the people around the edges might not work out as nicely as this. Lemme show you what that looks like. If I undo this, and we'll turn off Auto Fill. And then our choices are to Maintain the Canvas Size or to Maintain the Image Size. Well just go ahead and leave that there, and I'm just gonna re-run this. Now you'll see what happens. This is why you end up having to crop when you straighten a crooked photo, because when you skew it to straighten it, you create these wedges, as they are affectionately called. So fixing those requires the crop tool or some auto-fill magic in Photoshop.

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Ratings and Reviews

Patricia
 

Just watching this class live. It's my first class with Khara; she is a wonderful teacher, moving at a steady speed but always being careful to let us know what she's doing in the moment. I would classify myself as intermediate in terms of PSE but I've learned lots of little things that will make further use even easier and more fun. I really appreciated her descriptions of the difference between PS and PSE and her encouragement in using Photoshop Elements and all that it can do.

Lilygram
 

I have only been able to watch portions of this class but every single part that I have watched has been technically clear and inspiring to me. Based on this experience and the thorough, 58 item list of lessons, I will surely be buying this class soon! Thank you Khara and Creativelive for making a class on this topic and making it be super!!

Ven S
 

Great course. You can tell she knows the programme inside out.

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