Comments on: 5 Secrets of the Photoshop Crop Tool

By: HolyDoom Witch

HolyDoom Witch — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:13:07 +0000

Guess what, Ms. Bradley… I was unable to find the dragging handle! And “Clear” was what I was looking for. Though since it came in the end, I thought I won’t get a solution here!

Cool!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:50:33 +0000

Helen Bradley is the best.
No filler material. RIght to the point with perfect examples.
1..2…3…BOOM!
Now you know everything about the topic.

Is there a way to find all articles written by her at DPS?

By: kat

kat — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:24:13 +0000

I’m pretty good at cropping but not tried at an angle yet. I dont seem to grasp how to crop and enlage. When i try to save it it goes back to small size. Or if i blow it up nice and big it goes too grainey

By: Helen Bradley

Helen Bradley — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:19:52 +0000

@Donna.. you need a different tool for this job. You need the Lens Correction Filter – in Photoshop choose Filter > Lens Correction. That will let you straighten and fix the perspective issues without losing the parts of the image you want to keep.

I’ll try and knock out a post for you on it to show you how it’s done. I just checked the site and I can’t see we’ve ever talked about this tool so it’s probably a good time and the feature is in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements and it works the same way in each.

Helen

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:56:55 +0000

I just learned about using the crop tool to fix perspective but I’m frustrated that it crops my image when the correction is applied. For example, I want to “square” my entire image using a window or door as a reference but I don’t want to end up with JUST a photo of a perfectly square door (or window). I want the entire house to be in perspective.

Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

Donna

By: Swapnaa

Swapnaa — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:30:43 +0000

Brilliant! Super useful (and usable). Thanks for taking the trouble to create such a useful document!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:31:50 +0000

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By: Gunay

Gunay — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:35:34 +0000

Is there anyway of cropping an imaging without losing its sharpness? I mean when you crop the image and in a preview thumbnails you see not a nice picture, but looks nice once you open it

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:00:14 +0000

Great guide. I’m running Photoshop version 8 and I’m missing the middle little box on both sides of the “marquee” when I use the crop tool, so I cannot adjust the size of the width or height alone (they’re not mutually exclusive since I can only manipulate the four corners). How do I get the middle boxes to appear?

On a separate note, the photo of the Hindu temple deities is amazing! Do you have any more photos of that temple exterior?

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:12:11 +0000

Hey, great tips. What I use the crop tool for however, is not mentioned here.
Maybe because it seems simple, but it’s cropping to aspect ratio.

It’s a great way to chose an aspect ratio for the canvas and then resize at the same time.
Cropping can be used, not only to make an image smaller, but bigger too.
After you drag the box, you can resize your window (and zoom out) so you see the rest of the canvas, then size the crop tool so it’s outside of the canvas.
Once you crop, the canvas will be scaled to new size and aspect ratio, and the image will be filled.

Saves you the step of changing canvas then resizing image.