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Figure 8-28. In the Adjustments mode, you can adjust the Light or Color sliders for efficient large-
scale tweaks (top left), or you can “open” one of the sliders with its flippy triangle to reveal hidden
sliders like Contrast, Exposure, Highlights, and Shadows (lower right).

Crop & Rotate

Here are all the tools for fiddling with the size and shape of the photo. The
Straightening slider compensates for slight camera tilt. Each click of the
Rotate button (or each press of Ctrl+R) rotates the photo clockwise by 90

degrees. Flip produces a left-for-right mirror image. Reset, of course,
undoes everything you’ve worked on in this window.

Cropping means shaving off unnecessary outer portions of a photo. Usually
you crop a photo to improve its composition—adjusting where the subject

appears within the frame of the picture. Often a photo has more impact if
it’s cropped tightly around the subject, especially in portraits.

In the “Crop & rotate” window, a white rectangle appears on your photo.

Drag inward on any corner or edge. The part of the photo that Windows will
eventually trim away is dimmed out. You can recenter the photo by

dragging any part of the photo inside the box. (For greater precision, you