Straightening Crooked Photos

For all I use Photoshop or Elements depending on whether PC or laptop is in use I also find FASTSTONE a very capable FREE programme and tend to use it mainly for viewing my RAW images but it does have a host of other very simple to use, yet powerful, editing tools. Well worth a try for anyone before going to expense of 'paid for' programmes.

But I'm definitley with Mike in trying to get horizons horizontal at the taking stage but sometimes, as with everything, it ain't always possible 

Tripods, spirit levels, Photoshop et al all have their place of course. We all should strive to capture that perfect image, but very little is perfect. Many cameras have the option of viewing the image through a grid or mesh in the viewfinder along which verticals can be viewed at the time the shutter is pressed. I am well skilled ( to my shame) at taking pictures which are not straight and so use the facility in my Nikon D300 and D70 and it really does help me. I still get carried away and get it wrong often regardless. Using wide angle lenses just adds to the problem, but sometimes the effect can add to the shot. 

Thank goodness for Photoshop etc, as getting it perfect at the time of taking is often beyond me in relation to converging verticals etc. 

 But fellow POE members lets just enjoy pressing the shutter and keep smiling. That perfect picture is just over the next crooked horizon.  

John, this link...if it works!!! should take you to FASTSTONE

http://www.faststone.org/

If not just put FASTSTONE in Google and it will appear...

Made it clickable...