Fixing Your Crooked Horizon Using The Ruler Tool
Have you ever taken a sunset photo with a crooked horizon? Here’s an easy way to straighten that horizon without having to eyeball it!
Requirements: Adobe Photoshop (any versions) / Ruler Tool
With the crooked photo opened in Photoshop, select the Ruler Tool from the Tools menu. It should be under the Eye Drop menu (I on your keyboard).
Starting from one side, trace the horizon as shown.
Click Image -> Image Rotation -> Arbitrary.
The Ruler Tool should’ve automatically calculated how much the picture needs to be rotated. Click OK to continue.
Use the Crop Tool to remove the solid edges.
Here’s the final image rotated and cropped.
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Tagged as adobe, crooked horizon, Photoshop Tutorials, ruler tool, sunrise, sunsets+ Categorized as Blog, Photoshop Tutorials
Using a guide would have worked just as well.
B. Moore – but then with a guide Photoshop wouldn’t figure out the angle you need to rotate automatically.
Using a guide can help but when you start rotating the image, the horizon will either be above or below the guideline. Then you have to move the guideline again to get a more accurate alignment. It works but it is not as efficient as the Ruler tool.
Also you can apply this trick with objects that are supposed to be vertical such as buildings. I hope this helps.
-Dre