PhixitStraighten a crooked photo
A tilted horizon or walls that lean inward are the most common reasons a photo looks off. Straighten rotates by fractions of a degree, and perspective pulls leaning lines upright.
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How to straighten a photo
- Choose or drop a photo. It opens in Crop and straighten.
- Drag Straighten until the horizon lines up with the grid. For buildings, drag Vertical perspective until the walls stand upright.
- Select Apply crop, then save from Export.
Good to know
- While you straighten, the photo zooms in just enough that no empty corners appear.
- Line the horizon up with one of the grid lines rather than judging by eye.
- Double-click a slider's value to put it back to zero.
Questions
Why does straightening crop my photo?
Rotating a rectangle leaves empty corners. Phixit zooms in just enough to hide them, so a little of each edge is lost.
What is perspective correction?
When you tilt the camera up at a building, its sides lean inward. Vertical perspective stretches the top or the bottom so they stand straight again.
Is the quality kept?
The photo is resampled once with a bicubic filter on your graphics card, which keeps it sharp.
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- Resize an imageResize photos to an exact pixel size or a percentage with sharp Lanczos resampling.