Thursday, March 28, 2024

How to rotate, crop, and straighten pictures in Photos for OS X

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When you don’t have time to carefully line up and perfectly frame every photo, you just need to shoot first and fix it in post later.

That’s where straightening and cropping come in. Whether the horizon or a building looks oddly angled, or extra people or space are stealing focus from your subjects, Photos for OS X has just exactly those tools to help you line up what you want and cut out what you don’t, so that even if you didn’t frame the perfect photo, you can still end up with it. Also, if you need to rotate or flip a picture, you can do that too!

  • How to automatically crop and straighten in Photos for OS X
  • How to manually crop in Photos for OS X
  • How to manually straighten in Photos for OS X
  • How to rotate in Photos for OS X
  • How to flip in Photos for OS X

How to automatically crop and straighten in Photos for OS X

  • Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
  • Find the photo you’d like to straighten and open it.
  • Click on Edit in at the top.
  • Click on Crop in the right hand navigation.
  • Click on Auto towards the bottom right of the screen.
  • Click on Done in the upper right hand corner.
  • How to manually crop in Photos for OS X

  • Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
  • Find the photo you’d like to straighten and open it.
  • Click on Edit in at the top.
  • Click on Crop in the right hand navigation.
  • Click on Aspect towards the bottom right.
  • Choose the aspect ratio you’d like.
  • Alternately, you can grab the corners of each photo and free crop if you’d like.
  • When you’re happy with the crop, click on Done in the upper right hand corner.
  • How to manually straighten in Photos for OS X

  • Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
  • Find the photo you’d like to straighten and open it.
  • Click on Edit in at the top.
  • Click on Crop in the right hand navigation.
  • Use the dial off to the right of your photo in order to straight it.
  • Click Done in the upper right hand corner when you’re finished editing.
  • How to rotate in Photos for OS X

  • Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
  • Find the photo you’d like to straighten and open it.
  • Go to Image > Rotate Counterclockwise (or Clockwise) from the menu to turn 90º.
  • Repeat to turn another 90º, for a total of 180º.
  • You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Command + R for counterclockwise or Option + Command + R for clockwise.

    How to flip (mirror) in Photos for OS X

  • Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
  • Find the photo you’d like to straighten and open it.
  • Go to Image > Flip Horizontal (or Vertical) from the menu to mirror.
  • There’s also a button you can use in the crop and straighten toolbar to flip horizontally, but not vertically. (At least not yet.)

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    • Photos for OS X review
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