Straighten Your Horizon, No Cropping

[@vidmaster7]

Awesome tutorial on straightening a photo. Your teaching technique is excellent and I love the fact that you don't feel the need to play music in the background while you are speaking. Thank you.

[@distortedodin]

Thanks! Loved this. A bit sized tutorial easily digested but very helpful.

[@pesto12601]

Adaptive wide angle filter... give it a try - it works pretty well depending on how many "lines" you have to correct!

[@BruceBidinoff]

Excellent fix. Thank you, Steve.

[@dpulte]

this video has been super helpful - thanks!

[@johnrobin8769]

Great option to cropping! This is a challenge I run into all the time. Very useful. Thank you.

[@karencoffelt7682]

What a great tutorial, Steve! Thank you!

[@kaydos1267]

Thanks for the fix it really helped me with my school project.

[@dpulte]

just used this to good effect - thanks Steve!

[@evanchristiephotography]

Thanks Steve. What a great idea looking forward to more tips.

[@letuotter]

This is why I try to shoot slightly larger than I think I'm going to want for the final product, so I can crop and still be happy afterwards. These are some great tips, though, especially for those moments when you just didn't quite nail the horizon line.

[@AnVoPhotography]

Excellent tip. Thanks a lot

[@stephenspiteri_zunkus]

My method is similar but without using puppet warp. Just copy your image to a new layer, hit control "T" then control select the corner points to straighten the horizon.

[@siddrokzz]

thanks steve. it was very helpful.

[@safeharbor7]

Thanks Steve, great tip. Thumbs up...

[@thevandits7804]

Thank you a ton! This is a really helpful bit of knowledge you shared. I look forward to trying it out! ~Dylan

[@TheDoppelgangster]

Very clever - thank you very much!

[@TheLove99999]

What's the keyboard short cut for a guide line, please?

[@vanquishedninja3218]

Hey Steve, what exactly is that giant monitor behind you? What does it do?

[@verdonrocksphotography3510]

easy and fast, thank you!

[@lisamaier9984]

Awesome info!!!! Thank you so much.

[@GraveyarDisciple]

Nice video Steve thanks!!

[@johnlalexander6355]

Hi Steve, You have any info for sports shooters?

[@Bill-2128]

" Grab a gridline" - that's real helpful

[@leforain]

Thanks. That worked!

[@wouterj.vanduin8706]

I'd say there is an easier way by using not the crop-tool in the first place, but the perspective crop tool. First merge all layers or turn the background into a layer. Then grab the perspective crop tool and select the whole image. Just move one of the corners outwards for the least critical side till the horizon looks straight. Then select (lassotool) the additional blank canvas that has been added. Now use FILL/CONTENT AWARE FILL and it's done. Wouter J. van Duin

[@backcountrygallery]

+Wouter J. van Duin Thanks - but I've tried that a few times. I don't know if I'm too picky or what, but I can't always get content aware fill to look quite right. That's why I use this method :)

[@wouterj.vanduin8706]

+Steve Perry I agree that it won't always work perfectly. Condition is that one of the horizontal sides (top or bottom) is not too critical. But as always CONTENT AWARE is a nice tool but it may take a few efforts (on parts of the fill) to get it right. And sometimes it just won't. But then again, most images are not that critical on cropping ever so slightly.

[@TheWinswill]

Wow... this was great!

[@azdigbee]

There is no link below to purchase your e- book !

[@backcountrygallery]

Hmm - it's embedded in the video and in the description area for the video - if it's not showing up, let me know. Thanks! PS - just in case, I'll post it here too: www.backcountrygallery.com/secrets-to-stunning-wildlife-photography/

[@carlyreeder9790]

How do you level out a video in imovie?

[@sw2015ws]

fantastic - thanks

[@kfotoprm]

Clever! Thanks.

[@RachidBennis]

Thanks a lot!

[@satriafu1126]

Nice image,please edit this image from begin and please make a tutorial.

[@jotxue]

nice trick!

[@goodboid]

I find it sometimes much easier to use photoshop's "adaptive wide angle" filter.