We’ve all done it: you captured an image you liked but the horizon wasn’t straight and you didn’t have enough room to crop without sacrificing your composition. Here’s how you can easily straighten a slanted photo without cropping using Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop has been quietly adding useful tools to help solve previously annoying tasks with ease. In fact, they’ve been doing it for a good decade, and many people revolve around the term “Content-Aware”. Wherever you see those two words, it usually means that Photoshop will use AI to create more of your image in the gaps created. For example, if you change your cropped image to 16:9 and it creates two blank white bars on either side of your photo, you can Content-Aware Fill to have Photoshop create more of your photo to fill in the gaps. drum.
There are lots of ways this can be useful, and I’ve been using different iterations of this feature for several years. In this video, PiXimperfect will show you how you can fix a tilted horizon without messing up your composition, in just a few clicks. By using the straighten tool to correct the horizon and choosing the Content-Aware option, Photoshop does the heavy lifting without you having to.
