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From YourSITE.com *Program Basic 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! © Copyright by YourSITE.com |