Can Lightroom rotate or straighten a photo by a small arbitrary angle?
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I often handhold seascape shots and sometimes the horizon ends up slightly tilted. Usually all I need is a small rotation of a degree or two, plus edits like crop, exposure, or a graduated filter that I already do in Lightroom. I know Lightroom can rotate by 90°, but can it also straighten an image by an arbitrary angle so I don’t have to open Photoshop just for that?
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Yes, you can straighten an image using the crop or straighten tool.
You can read about the available methods here: Crop and straighten a photo
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Yes. In Lightroom you can rotate/straighten by small arbitrary amounts in the Develop module using the Crop/Straighten tool.
Ways to do it:
- Open the Crop tool, then drag near a corner or side handle to rotate the image.
- Use the Straighten tool (the bubble-level icon) and drag a line along something that should be horizontal or vertical, such as the horizon, a table edge, or a building. Lightroom will straighten the image based on that line.
So you do not need Photoshop just to fix a slight tilt.
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