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Rotating an image sounds simple,
but getting the alignment just right, can be fiddly and time-consuming.
For example: what if you had scanned in some photos,
but they ended up crooked on the screen?
Or maybe you took the photo at an angle,
and you need to make the horizon horizontal?
Relight's rotation tool will help you straighten these out,
quickly, precisely, and easily.
Let's deal with the scanned photos first:
here I've scanned in multiple photos on one sheet to save time.
However, the photos almost never stay where I put them,
and so they end up at an angle.
To fix this, enable the rotation tool by clicking on the rotation icon.
Let's fix the bottom photo.
So, start by dragging the center of rotation to one of the corners; like that.
Next, grab the rotation handle on the outer rim,
and drag that to one of the other corners.
Dragging it by the outer rim will move it,
grabbing it in the middle will rotate the image.
There we go. So, now we want to rotate.
So, grab it in the middle, and drag it to the top snap point
and, there you go, it's been rotated, so it's straight on-screen.
Now we just crop it, and we're done.
And, it only took us a few seconds.
Here's a photo taken on Wellington's wild south coast;
unfortunately, the camera wasn't level,
and it looks like the InterIslander and Bluebridge Ferries are travelling downhill.
This is easy to fix, too:
so, once again, we enable rotation by clicking on the rotation icon,
now we drag the center of rotation,
and the rotation handle, onto the horizon.
There we go.
Next, rotate, and drag to this snap, and there we go: the horizon's level.
Okay, one more example:
here, the photographer was clearly paying more attention to the beach
than the buildings, which are on a lean.
In this case, it's easiest to use the building edges.
So, drag the rotation tool onto one of the building edges, like that,
then, rotate, and snap.
There we go. No more leaning buildings.
That pretty much covers the rotation tool,
you can also rotate numerically if you want to,
just double-click on the rotation icon,
and the scale, crop, and rotate window will come up.
You'll find the controls down the bottom.
Thanks for watching.
To learn more about Relight, watch some of the other tutorials,
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