Straightening Your Horizon in Photoshop

Hi, I'm Ian Plant. And today I'm going to show you a quick and easy tip for straightening a crooked horizon using Adobe Lightroom. As you can see from this photo taken on the Olympic Coast, my horizon is pretty crooked. It's a pretty easy fix. What I'm going to do is go into the crop overlay and there are two tools you can use to straighten horizon.

You can either manually adjust the angle, and you can see when you grab the slider, and move it left and right, that you get a grid overlay and you can manually line up the horizon with that grid. The other thing you can do is, you can use the angle tool, and you go in and you simply drag the mouse from one side of the horizon to the other. And you line that up with the horizon, and Lightroom will automatically straighten it for you. So you can see that there's a little bit of cropping occurs when you straighten your horizon. So if you have a really tilted horizon you may lose a fair amount of pixel real estate.

So it's best to make sure that your horizon is straight as much as possible when you're working in the field. I'll just go ahead and click done. And there you have it. Straightening a crooked horizon in Adobe light room is fast and easy.