Senbonzakura Kageyoshi

Despite the loving care given while scanning the raw pages, they still end up a little crooked.

1. To straighten the page, we use the Measure Tool (), which is found in the same square as the Eyedropper () in Photoshop. In newer version of PS, this may be called the Ruler Tool, but it’s in the same location.

2. Draw a vertical line with it along one of the panel borders that we know should be perfectly horizontal or vertical. Click on one corner of the border and drag your cursor to the other corner. When you let go, there should be a thin gray line along the border. After you make the line, you can still move the points at each end to make it perfectly even.

3. Then go Image -> Rotate Canvas -> Arbitrary. The Measure Tool has already filled in a value in the Arbitrary window, so just click OK. Basically, it takes the guesswork out of how much a page should be rotated and measures it for you.

After clicking OK, the page should have rotated slightly so that the line you drew with the Measure tool is now perfectly horizontal.

Due to the crappy print quality of some magazines and varying scan quality, sometimes rotating for one line will make another line worse. It’s up to you to use your judgement on what looks best overall.

Thanks to ExiledVip3r for the PS icons – I should use those more ^^