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Photoshop Tutorials- Leveling the Horizon Tutorial – Ashley McNamara – Danville Photographer

It is tutorial time WHOHOO!

 Today I am going to teach a simple yet awesome technique to level a horizon. I am a camera tilter, always have been and always will be. The problem is that there is a time to tilt and a time to NOT tilt and the beach is a not to tilt sort of time. I like a nice level horizon so this is for all of you camera tilters out there.

Step 1: Open Image

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Step 2: Select the Ruler Tool. It is 20 tools down and you might have to right click to see it.

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Step 3: Once you have selected the ruler tool, draw a line across the horizon. This works on anything if you have a dresser, chair, wall. Whatever you want to straighten.

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Step 4: Once you have drawn your line select Image, Rotate Canvas, and Arbitrary. 

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Step 5: This is where the magic happens. The ruler tool calculated how much to rotate the image to make it straight. Once you click arbitrary the math is done for you so you can just click ok.

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Step 6: Now your image is straight but what about the extra canvas??

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Step 7:  You can do a couple of things to take care of the extra canvas caused from straightening your image. You can clone the white spots out or you can crop most of it out which is what I do.

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Step 8: Clone or patch any white areas that the crop tool didn’t take care of.

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Now you are all done. Super easy right?

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This entry was written by Ashley McNamara, posted on November 2, 2009 at 1:03 pm, filed under Photoshop Tutorials, Uncategorized and tagged Ashley's Actions, level a picture, level horizon, photoshop cs3, photoshop tutorial on straightening, Photoshop Tutorials, straighten image, straighten picture, tutorial on level horizon. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

10 Comments

  1. Amber said . . .

    THANK YOU! I’m always tilting and I’m not even going to tell you how I fix it! This is so much easier.

    Posted November 2, 2009 at 1:52 pm | Permalink
  2. Susy said . . .

    Wow, thank you so much for this.

    Posted November 2, 2009 at 3:13 pm | Permalink
  3. heather said . . .

    Thanks Ashley! awesome tutorial!

    Posted November 3, 2009 at 7:15 pm | Permalink
  4. Brandy Anderson said . . .

    Dude, I was just going to do this same tutorial for the blog. Now I can just link to you, lol!

    Posted November 8, 2009 at 12:04 am | Permalink
  5. Misty said . . .

    Your tutorials are always wonderful thank you! :)

    Posted November 9, 2009 at 9:27 am | Permalink
  6. Nancy Blumenfeld said . . .

    I want to be You when I grow up!

    Posted November 9, 2009 at 8:34 pm | Permalink
  7. Carrie said . . .

    that is super. how did i not know that, THANKS!

    Posted November 11, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Permalink
  8. Emma Sharkey said . . .

    Fantabulous! Thanks so much, wonderful share :)
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    Posted November 26, 2009 at 5:29 pm | Permalink
  9. Cecilia Sierra said . . .

    Thank you! thank you! From now on life is going to be much easier for this camera tilter!Muaaaaaack

    Posted December 28, 2009 at 6:09 pm | Permalink
  10. robyn said . . .

    no wayyyyyyyyy! thats awesome!

    Posted January 1, 2010 at 4:52 pm | Permalink

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