It’s easy to forget to line up the horizon when getting an
important, spur-of-the-moment photo for scrapbooking, but there are simple ways
to fix this with Photo Impact and give you perfectly aligned portraits.
You can play around with the Free Transform Tools, or
change the numbers in the rotation degree box and get good results, but you have
to experiment with these a bit to get things where you want them. A much
simpler way is to use the Rotate using a Horizontal Line option.
In this example, the horizon isn’t too far off balance, but
noticeable so I want to change it. You first choose the transform tool on the
left hand edge of your toolbar, than in the upper toolbar, chose the rotate
method pointed out below, the Rotate using a Horizontal Line option. A
horizontal line with control boxes on both ends will appear on your chosen
photo.
Simply move the square control points on each side of the
line until the line is even with the horizon, than double click on the photo
with your mouse or pen. The computer does the work for you, taking all the
guesswork out.
There is also a vertical option that will work in the same
way, line the line up along the edge of a building or a straight wall indoors,
and use it to guide the computer to straighten out your photo as well.
All that’s left now is to crop the photo to remove the
white edges. Now you’ve got a perfectly aligned photo and are ready to scrap!
