Use Paint Shop Pro 5 to rotate digital photos

You need to know how to us Paint Shop Pro 5 to rotate digital photos as all photos are not taken with the same camera orientation. If you tilt your camera on its side it will take photos in portrait orientation. The normal orientation is called landscape.

So here we have a photo taken with the camera tilted on its side in portrait orientation. When the photo is imported or downloaded to the computer it is naturally in landscape orientation. You must re-orientate it to portrait as below.

To see a tutorial on how to change the orientation from landscape to portrait or vice versa, click on the video below. This shows how to rotate your digital pictures.

When you open a photo, apart from just looking at it, you may want to zoom in on a section of the photo. Follow this paint shop pro zoom tool tutorial.

The photo may need to be rotated so that it can be viewed properly. We need to rotate photos to switch between portrait and landscape orientations. Click here to see a paint shop pro 5 tutorial on how to rotate digital photos

You may want to turn it form a colour to a black and white photo. Here are some paint shop pro tips on how to covert a photo to greyscale (black and white)

You may wish to edit out some part of the photo which you didn't intend to include. This is called cropping a picture and is an extremely handy skill to have. Follow these tutorials for paint shop pro to master the skill of cropping photos

You need to know how to resize your photos for email and the web. Here is the tutorial on resizing for photo sharing

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