Unless you take every photograph with your camera mounted on a carefully levelled tripod, you will occasionally end up with a slightly crooked image. It happens to all of us, particularly when working quickly or trying to capture a moment rather than concentrating on the horizon.
Fortunately, straightening an image is straightforward in Adobe Camera Raw. The tool allows you to level the photograph and crop away the empty edges in one operation.
Choose the Straighten tool, then click and drag along a line that should be horizontal or vertical. Camera Raw uses that reference to rotate the image and adjust the crop.
That is the workflow: select a reliable reference line, drag, review the crop and apply the correction. Easy enough.
Do check the result afterwards. Straightening can remove useful parts of the frame, and a line that looks horizontal in the scene may not be a reliable reference if it is affected by perspective.
Historical note: The screenshots show an older version of Adobe Camera Raw. The tools and icons may look different in current releases, but the basic process remains similar.
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