How to straighten a photo vertically rather than horizontally

[remcnulty]

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.

[Jeff Arola]

In photoshop elements 15 you should be able to draw a vertical line with the straighten tool to straighten vertically.

Some earlier pse versions required holding down the Command/Ctrl key while drawing out a vertical line, but not in pse 15.

[hatstead · Accepted solution]

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.

[Mark_Sand]

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: