Taylah and Zen

Sandi, I played a bit with the cropping, hope you don't mind,
Roger.

No I dont mind at all!! How on earth do you straighten the horizon like that? Thats just awesome Roger!

Seems straight horizon looks nice though

Select "Image" / "Rotate Canvas" / "Arbitrary". You can enter a decimal degree amount to rotate the entire picture and make the horizon level. You'll end up having to crop a little around the edges to make the frame horizontal again, though.

I'm the worst at having horizons about 2 degrees tilt, usually with the left side of the horizon lower than the right (as in your original pic).

By the way, lovely pics, and both subjects photography nicely.

Thanks for that info MTalley. Ive got a notebook next to computer full of little "how to's" for photoshop that im slowly learning. Ive jotted down your method and im sure i will find it helpful in future pics. Thanks again.

Nice shot. Cute girl and cool dog!

Hi Sandi, I just use the crop tool in PS.....I dropped the crop in the frame and expanded it out using the mouse, then I took the cursor outside the square and at the top a little double-sided rocking arrow appears. I then just rotated the arrows to the desired angle and then finalised the size and hit enter, all done. As you can move the dotted square in and out at will it's easy to bring it down to the horizon so you know the angle is right, then just take it back up again.

ah k will have a look at doing that! Thanks for your help Roger!

Skade,
Make it easy on yourself. Select the measure tool. Draw a line across the image following the water. Select Image>Rotate>Arbitrary and the degrees needed to level the line will already be entered for you.

Very nice stuff BTW - and your daughter is a great model...

This place is just so helpful! Thanks Titus213. I now have on my notepad "MTally version of how to straighten a horizon" scribbled under that one is Bikeriders version.. and under that is Titus213 version. Lol Thats how I remember who gave me what lol This notepad is full of PS scribble, I dont know how I follow it sometimes! Thanks again for your help!

Not sure in Photoshop, I use Paint Shop Pro. But there is a "straighten Tool". I'm sure photoshop should have a similar tool.

Just found this in Photoshop elements2, which I have and don't use.

To straighten and crop the image, choose Image > Rotate > Straighten and Crop Image.
Note: The Straighten and Crop Image command may not produce good results if the edges of the rotated scan are too close to the image window boundaries. In this case, you can use the Canvas Size command to enlarge the work canvas.

To straighten the image and leave the canvas size the same, choose Image > Rotate > Straighten Image. Using this command results in an image with a transparent border at its edges.
Hope this helps.

Thanks Sandy! Another way to add to my list! Thanks for your help.