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Cropping and straightening

Cropping and straightening - Lightroom Tutorial

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Cropping and straightening

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- [Instructor] In this photo we have a definite angle, and while you could argue that it adds to the aesthetic, I want to show you how easy it is to straighten the photograph. For this, I'm going to choose the crop and straighten tool, you'll see this gives us the ability to crop, and then from the corners, rotate to straighten. And that works pretty well. However, there is an auto button here, let's reset. If I just click auto, it will attempt to analyze the image and come up with the correct crop. You'll see in this case it's detected that it feels that the image is level. It actually is, but with minor adjustments here, I can decide to tweak slightly. It's a little bit difficult, because that corner is straight there, versus the building in the back, versus the sidewalk here. So it is a bit of decision of what you go for level, but all-in-all, this feels pretty good, and if I press the return key, the image is cropped…

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