![]() ![]() If you zoomed in on your image as I did, you'll most likely need to zoom back out to see the entire crop box. Uses for precomposing and nesting Precomposing and nesting are useful for managing and organizing complex compositions. The crop box is rotated to the same angle you dragged with the Straighten Tool. Precompositions in After Effects are similar to Smart Objects in Adobe Photoshop. ![]() Camera Raw instantly switches from the Straighten Tool to the Crop Tool (if you look up in the toolbar, you'll see that the Crop Tool is now selected) and it automatically draws a crop box around the image. Release your mouse button when you're done and watch what happens. Just make sure to turn Caps Lock off when you're done, otherwise you may forget it's on and wonder why other things are suddenly not working properly. Pressing the Caps Lock key on your keyboard will change the cursor to a crosshair so you can more easily line up your click spot with the center of the crosshair. Quick Tip: The Straighten Tool's default mouse cursor makes it hard to tell exactly where you're clicking. I was standing on the deck of a third ship when I took the photo, and like I said, it was early morning, things were still a bit fuzzy, and I obviously wasn't holding the camera quite as level as I thought I was:Ĭlicking and dragging the Straighten Tool along an area that should be horizontally straight. Here's a photo I shot of a couple of cruise ships arriving at port early one morning. For other tutorials in this series, check out our complete Photo Retouching section.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! To get the most from this lesson, I recommend first reading through our main Crop Tool tutorial as well as our Rotating And Straightening Images tutorial. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to straighten photos using the combined power of Camera Raw's Straighten Tool and the Crop Tool, both designed to work seemlessly together to straighten and crop our photos at the same time.Īgain, just a quick reminder that these tutorials in our Adobe Camera Raw series are for Camera Raw 8, part of Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) and available as a free update for Photoshop CS6 users.
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