How to straighten a crooked photo

A tilt of two degrees is invisible while you take the photo and impossible to ignore afterwards.

Crop and rotate
Whichever tool you use here, the file stays on your device. How that works

Step by step

  1. 1Add the photo.
  2. 2Rotate in small steps until a horizontal or vertical line in the picture looks true.
  3. 3Crop away the empty corners that rotating creates.
  4. 4Save the straightened version.

Find a line that should be straight

Use a real reference rather than your eye alone: a horizon, a door frame, the edge of a table, the bottom of a page. Line that up and the rest of the picture follows.

Rotating always costs you a little of the edges. Turning a rectangle inside its own frame leaves empty triangles in the corners, so those have to be cropped away. A small correction costs almost nothing, a large one eats into the picture.

For a photographed document, straightening makes a real difference to how it reads and how seriously it is taken. A page at a visible angle looks like a snapshot rather than a scan.

Questions

Will I lose part of the image?

A little around the edges, since rotating leaves empty corners that need cropping. Small corrections cost very little.

Can I straighten by a fraction of a degree?

Rotate in small steps until a reference line looks true. Most crooked photos need only a degree or two.

Is the photo uploaded?

No.