Unbelievable - straighten/crop image doesn't work

I've got a scan that's about .5 degrees off square.

So, I see Adobe Photoshop has a straighten AND a (straighten and crop) tool.

It seems after using the straigten tool (it STILL seems to force a crop on you - i.e. you can't just straighten withOUT cropping - then why 2 options??) I can not turn OFF "rotate". IOW, if I use the crop function, it won't let me drag the borders. Instead when I'm outside the canvas, the little rotate double arrows are present. HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM? I suppose I could close and reopen, but if that's the workaround, it's a sad solution.

I'm running either 6.0 or 7.0.

Solution: rescan the image square as it's 10x faster.

JL

Can ANYONE explain how to straight a crooked image (because of scanner).

EVERY help screen on the web shows a "measure tool" that I can NOT see via the dropper palette. Adobe's help is no good.

How can companies sell this software when it either doesn't work or their OWN help does not explain?

JL

"Jim Lewandowski" wrote in message

I've got a scan that's about .5 degrees off square.

So, I see Adobe Photoshop has a straighten AND a (straighten and crop) tool.
It seems after using the straigten tool (it STILL seems to force a crop on you - i.e.

you

can't just straighten withOUT cropping - then why 2 options??) I can not turn OFF "rotate". IOW, if I use the crop function, it won't let me drag the borders. Instead when I'm outside the canvas, the little rotate double arrows are present. HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM? I suppose I could close and reopen, but if that's the workaround, it's a

sad

solution.

I'm running either 6.0 or 7.0.

Solution: rescan the image square as it's 10x faster.

JL