
Image with added background using the Crop tool in Photoshop CC Use the Crop tool to level the image in Photoshop CC 2017 Any trimmed edge will only affect the extra space you added in step 1.
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You are now ready to fix the horizon by using the Crop tool in Photoshop and rotate the image.

In this step you need to fill the added white space using Content-Aware from the Fill action.įill the selected area in Photoshop CC 2017 Use Content-Aware to fill the selection in Photoshop CC 2017 Fix the level in Photoshop Make the selection Use the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop CC 2017 to select all the white band surrounding the image The white band around the image is selected after clicking in with the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop CC 2017 Fill the selection Hence you need to select the extra added space using the Magic Wand in Photoshop. You want to make the image as if it was wider, with a greater field of view. Once the canvas is wider, you need to fill the extra space with some of the image content using Content-Aware. Since the rotation of the image means the edges will be trimmed, the idea is to make the image wider so once it is rotated, the trimmed area is not part of the initial image content.Įnlarge the Canvas in Photoshop CC 2017 Enlarge the Canvas in Photoshop CC 2017 by 120% on each side Fill the canvas with the image content in Photoshop Here is the three-step process to fix the unlevelled image above. It analyses the pixels around an area of an image you wish to modify and applies a seamless fill. The Spot Healing Brush is essentially using the most magical feature of Photoshop: the Content Aware. When done in Adobe Photoshop, we still get trimmed edges, but we have the ability to retrieve them using the Spot Healing Brush. Photo edges got trimmed after correcting the level in Adobe Lightroom In this example, the horizon is so off than fixing it in Adobe Lightroom would lead to trimmed edges:

There have always been some occasions where cropping in Photoshop was more effective than in Lightroom. Before diving into this improvement, let’s look at our alternative options using Lightroom and Photoshop. In June 2016, Adobe released Photoshop CC 2015.5 which included a significant improvement to the Crop tool. However, Photoshop also keeps improving, and some tasks are being simplified.

Over the years the features Adobe has added to the tool has made it even more powerful and to some extent, it even shadows Photoshop when it comes to photography. Some of you asked me why I had not cropped it from inside Adobe Lightroom. It is no secret I am a strong advocate of Lightroom for any photographer who not only needs a tool to develop his/her photographs but also an intelligent and easy mean to manage (organise) them. In my last video, The wild coast of the Scottish Borders, I walked you through my development steps and mentioned I used Adobe Photoshop to crop my image.
