Herself’s Webtools

The tools in the dotted area are for rotating, scaling, shearing, perspective, and flipping your image.

The first rotates your image. Select the rotate tool. Click on your image and drag it. When you are happy with it click ‘Rotate’ in the box that popped up. This is good for straightening horizons when you weren’t quite holding the camera level.

Scale is easiest to use by selecting the scale tool then changing the width/height or aspect ratio in the box that pops up. After you select your numbers just click ‘Scale’.

Shear is like warping your image with wind. Select ‘Shear’. Put your mouse on your image and drag the mouse. Your image will shear in the direction and amount that you dragged the mouse.

Perspective will foreshorten or lengthen your image. Select Perspective, click in the photo you have open and a dot appears in the middle of your photo. Click again and drag and the image will foreshorten or lengthen in the direction and by the amount of the mouse movement.

Flip does what you’d expect choose vertical or horizontal and click the image. The image will flip from side to side or top to bottom depending on your choice.

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