

On the Options bar at the top of the screen, click on the Set The Overlay Options icon. If you like to adhere to the Rule of Thirds with your photography, this is very useful, but there are other Overlay Options available too. When you start to drag with one of the cropping handles, The Rule of Thirds overlay grid appears by default. If you’ve already committed or confirmed a crop, just undo by pressing Cmd + Z (Mac) or Ctrl + Z (PC). Stepping back a little, if you want to cancel a crop while the cropping border is still on your image, you can either press Esc on the keyboard or, click on the Cancel Crop icon in the Options bar at the top of the screen. When you’re happy with how the crop appears, you confirm or complete the crop by either Enter (PC) or Return (Mac) on your keyboard, or by pressing the Confirm Crop icon in the Options bar at the top of the screen.Įt Voila! Your beautifully cropped image appears. You can also move your image within the cropping area by clicking on the image itself and dragging it.ģ. If you want to keep the proportions of your crop to be the same as your original image, press and hold the Shift key as you drag the cropping handles. This is the bit that will get cropped away.

Notice the dimmed area that appears outside of the cropping border. You’ll also notice there are handles (small boxes) in each corner and along each side. You’ll see that a cropping border is automatically added to your photo. Choose the Crop tool by pressing C on your keyboard, or by clicking on the Crop tool in the toolbox.Ģ.
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The video shows you how to use both the Crop Tool and the Marquee Tool to crop an image.ġ.

In this short guide, I’ll show you how to make a basic crop on your image and some of the options you have available to you when you’re cropping. It’s an essential tool for anyone working with images and is useful for helping to create a focus in your photograph and for removing distractions in an image. With each version of Photoshop, the Crop tool has improved. The Crop tool in Photoshop removes or hides whatever part of the image you choose. This guide to Cropping and Resizing will help you learn how to use these tools and functions in Photoshop. We can also use it to straighten photographs and even to add extra space around our images. We use the Crop tool to remove parts of a photo or image.
