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| How to Touch Up Photos with FotoFinish |
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Before printing or publishing, quickly edit and retouch your digital
photos with FotoFinish.
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| Rotate a Photo that Appears Sideways |
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When you take a picture with your camera turned to a portrait position, the photo
will appear turned sideways when you download it to your computer.
The easiest way to rotate images that appear sideways is to use the FotoFinish's Photo Wizard.
Once you have your image open, choose Rotate from the Wizard tab in the Wizard Window.
Click the +90° and - 90° buttons within the Wizard Panel to rotate your image to the correct position.
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| Straighten a Crooked Photo |
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Every so often you'll take a photo where the horizon is not quite straight or other
objects that contain horizontal lines such as a fireplace, fence, railing, or house seem
crooked in the image. You can fix this by rotating the image by tiny angles until it looks
straight.
With the image open, select the Rotate command in the Image menu. To use the
rotation wheel grab the knob and, without letting go of the left mouse button, rotate it
to any degree. You can also rotate the image by clicking on one of the preset arrow buttons
or typing in a degree yourself and hitting enter.
As you rotate the image, you'll see the background color appear to fill
the open space left behind by the original image. To get rid of the background
color, you'll have to crop the rotated photo (see below).
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Notice how the horizon
is not level in the image |
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Rotate the image by tiny degrees until the horizon appears straight
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Crop the rotated photo
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Now the horizon appears level
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| Crop a Photo |
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Crop your photos to eliminate distractions and focus your image on a particular subject.
To crop an image, select Crop from
the Wizard tab.
Click the Crop Tool 
and resize the cropping frame on your image using the adjustment handles.
Once your selection is in place, hit the Crop Image
 button to crop.
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The original image
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Resize the cropping frame around the area you
want to keep
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The cropped image
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