This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Cropping Photos
Cropping means to cut out parts of a photo you don’t want or to refocus the image more on the part that is of the most interest to you. For example, if you want those who look at a photo to focus mostly on the people in the photo, you should crop it down so that the people fill most of the image. If the background is important, crop out less.
Click the Crop button.
To constrain the cropped photo to specific dimensions, check the Constrain check box and choose the proportion you want to maintain on the pop-up menu.
Drag the crop box by its Resize handle until it is about the size (and shape if you didn’t constrain it) you want the cropped
photo to be.
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Making Copies Earlier, you learned that edits you make on an image, such as a crop, apply to the image everywhere it is used. If you don’t
want this, make a copy of a photo by selecting it and pressing 
-D. You can edit and use the copy in a project without impacting the versions you’ve used elsewhere. 
Drag the crop box around until the part of the photo you want to keep is within the box. (Everything outside of the box is
cropped out.)
Continue adjusting the crop box’s size and location until the image is just right.
Click Apply. The image is cropped.
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Seeing Changes To see the impact of a crop, or any other edit for that matter, press and hold the Shift key down. The most recent edit you made is “undone.” Release the key to see the edit again. Press and hold Shift to see the image without the edit again. This is a good way to see whether you are making improvements (or not).