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Pixlr Worksheet - Straighten a crooked image

How do you straighten a crooked image? This worksheet covers the use of the Marquee tool, Free

Transform and copying an image

Video available on Youtube: http://youtu.be/z05JWmmxonA

Crooked image

Here is the problem. An image where the horizon is crooked - the yellow line demonstrates this

quite clearly. The problem: how to straighten the horizon.

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Tilt the image

Open an image.

Select Edit, Free Transform.

Atthe bottom right of the image, under the picture, your cursor will turn to a directional arrow. Hold

down the left mouse button over this arrrow and turn your picture until the horizon straightens.

Clcik Edit, then Yes, you do want to apply the changes.

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Copy the stratightened image

Select the Marquee tool. Draw a "square" to select the image. Go within the white sections created

earlier by your tilting.

Copy the new, straightened image. Edit, Copy.

Create a new, straight image

Click File, New Image. Select: Create image from clipboard.

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Before and After images

Save and rename the new straight image