Crop and Straighten. If you scan a picture it may be tilted on the scanner. Then in a image editing program like photoshop you can straighten the picture.

Crop and Straighten

• If you scan a picture it may be tilted on the scanner.

• Then in a image editing program like photoshop you can straighten the picture and remove outer parts of the image which is called cropping.

• Cropping is used to take out unwanted backgrounds in pictures.

• You would select the cropping tool and decide how much you want to show.

Original photo

Rotated Photo Using Gimp

Cropped Photo

Straightened Photo

Review Questions

• What two programs can crop be used for?• What tool in Gimp can you use to straighten

the photo?