inaccurate crop when rotating

NH
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norman_hom
Nov 1, 2005
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am using photoshop CS. when using the cropping tool to crop and rotate, i’ve noticed the resulting crop is not faithful to the crop i had set. here’s a visual example.

1. my original image with a tilted horizon that i want to straighten in my crop

<http://www.pbase.com/norm/image/51655064/original.jpg>

2. here is how i want the image to be cropped

<http://www.pbase.com/norm/image/51655122/original.jpg>

3. and this is the resulting crop

<http://www.pbase.com/norm/image/51655167/original.jpg>

notice the horizontal guide i added to show how far off from horizontal the resulting crop is. notice also the missing ground under the ball that i had intended to preserve.

any thoughts for fixing this is greatly appreciated. in the meantime, the workaround that i’ve come up with is to make a duplicate layer, then use edit|transform|rotate to manually get the horizon straight and then do an unrotated crop from there but that’s a lot of extra steps.

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chrisjbirchall
Nov 1, 2005
Take the Measure Tool and draw line on on the image along the horizon (or bottom of the hedge) to mark what you want to be level.

Then go IMAGE>ROTATE CANVAS>ARBITRARY

A dialog box will open with the predetermined amount to rotate already entered. Click OK. and you’re done!.

Chris.
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YrbkMgr
Nov 1, 2005
Yes. And then crop.
NH
norman_hom
Nov 1, 2005
wow, thanks…works like a charm! i will use this technique from now on.

however, doesn’t the issue i pointed out indicate a bug in PS? or, is it just the wrong tool for the job?

thanks again.
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chrisjbirchall
Nov 2, 2005
You’re welcome Norman.

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