How to straighten a photo vertically rather than horizontally

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August 11, 2017
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The straighten tool in Photoshop Elements 15 uses a horizontal line to straighten a photo, but sometimes it makes more sense to use a vertical line to straighten. If this is possible how is it done? For example, I have a photo of a tower that is off, but to correct, I want to use the vertical tower as the reference not a horizon.

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Correct answer hatstead

remcnulty wrote
The straighten tool in Photoshop Elements 15 uses a horizontal line to straighten a photo, but sometimes it makes more sense to use a vertical line to straighten. If this is possible how is it done? For example, I have a photo of a tower that is off, but to correct, I want to use the vertical tower as the reference not a horizon.

If this fails for you, try the transform tool (CTRL+T)

Note the little curved arrow outside the picture to drag with

Then crop the margins.

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Mark_Sand

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Using the Free Transform tool suggested by hatstead, it will help if you view the Grid. Then you can align the object along a vertical grid line:

hatsteadCorrect answer

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remcnulty wrote
The straighten tool in Photoshop Elements 15 uses a horizontal line to straighten a photo, but sometimes it makes more sense to use a vertical line to straighten. If this is possible how is it done? For example, I have a photo of a tower that is off, but to correct, I want to use the vertical tower as the reference not a horizon.

If this fails for you, try the transform tool (CTRL+T)

Note the little curved arrow outside the picture to drag with

Then crop the margins.