Straightening a photo

[KBookman]

I'm a major newbie.

I'm trying to straighten a crooked photo. The instructions in the Editor space say I should click the Straighten tool, draw a line on the photo, and the image will rotate to the angle of the line.

I did exactly that and even though the line got drawn, the photo didn't move.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong.

 

[iDad]

use the transform tool to move it, but not seeing the photo leaves us guessing, is it far off center?

 

[KBookman]

Thanks, I'll try that. No, this one is not far off center, though I've had the same problem with a few other photos.

 

[Steve]

Works for me in PSE7

Let's say you have a landscape and the horizon is on an angle.

Click and hold the mouse button on a spot on the horizon, drag across to the other side of the image keeping the line on the horizon then release, then use the crop tool.

 

[iDad]

Oh elements question.

 

[Steve]

Oh elements question.

In this case the same as PS though, click, hold, drag, and release the straighten tool then crop out the blank areas.

 

[dumbbeans]

Gotcha, i'm sure that could work.