Rotating and Cropping Question ??

Sometimes I have to straighten up a photo by rotating it like .1 degrees, and then when I try to crop the little sliver off the side it is a pain to get the crop marks just right. I there an easy way to crop out the new image while keeping as much of it as possible?
I hope this makes sense.
Thank you.
Dan

what Buko says,
but you can crop+rotate+change resolution up-sampling (adding more pixels) with no problem.
But crop+rotate+change resolution down-sampling (reducing the number of pixels) you can get some pretty bad image distortion.

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[Due to a forum error during moderator editing, Harm's reply was lost. Here is the text of his reply, edited for content.]
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