Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

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5 Click the Constraint tool.
6 Click and drag along a
visually distorted line.
The line straightens and
the image adjusts in that
area.
7 Repeat step 6 on other
vertical or horizontal lines.
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The image continues to adjust
according to the constraint lines.
A Each constraint line also has an
angle constraint circle with two
anchor points. Click an anchor
point and drag to adjust the
angle of the line as needed.
8 Click and drag the Scale slider to
the left if necessary to view the
adjusted photo.
9 Click OK.
The adjusted photo reappears in
Photoshop, where you can crop
away the excess background area
using the Crop tool.
TIPS
Did You Know?
You can click and drag along
multiple vertical and horizontal
lines with the Constraint tool ( )
to correct the wide angle
distortion. To delete a constraint
line, click one of the end points
and press Delete (Backspace).
Try This!
Press Shift as you click and drag a
constraint line. Or Shift+click any
of the constraints you already
placed on the image. The
constraint forces the line in the
photo to be either perfectly vertical
or horizontal. Depending on the
photo, the correction may look
realistic or it may completely
distort the perspective.
Important!
The Adaptive Wide Angle filter
helps straighten bending lines
to make a wide-angle photo
more closely resemble human
perception. It does not correct
for vignetting or chromatic
aberrations.
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