- Histograms make muddy pictures history
- Fixing color casts
- Banish Red-eye
- The magic of cropping
- Straightening perspective fixes
- Fixing Blemishes
- Bringing out detail in shadows and highlights
- Quick and soft selections
- Reuse a selection
- Whiter teeth
- Smoother skin
- Facelifts without surgery
- Quick Layer fixes
- Non-permanent fixes
- Depth of field effect
- More interesting skies
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Straightening perspective fixes
Photos taken with the horizon or distinct horizontal features not perfectly
aligned can be improved by straightening. To do this, click the Measure tool and
drag a line across either the horizon or the line that is at an angle. Now
choose Image
Rotate CanvasArbitrary, and the angle in the dialog
will be set to the angle of the line you just created. Click OK to rotate the
image and then straighten it. You'll need to crop the photo when
you've done this, because the photo won't be rectangular any longer.
When you shoot tall buildings, you'll often find you get a keystone
effect where the top of the building is narrower than the base and the sides
lean inwards. To fix this you'll need to fix the perspective, so begin by
reducing the size of the image and then enlarging the window containing the
image so that there is some gray area around it. Choose Select All and then
EditFree Transform. Once you've done this, a set of sizing handles
will appear around the image. Hold down the Control key as you drag on a handle
to adjust the image, and then continue to do so until the lines that should be
truly vertical the sides of buildings, for example) run parallel to the edge of
the photo. When you're done, click the Commit transform (Return) button or
hit Enter to confirm your changes (shown in Figure 4)
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Figure 4. Using the Transform tool lets you alter the perspective of an image to fix problems such as buildings that lean inwards.