Using The Crop Tool For Making Photo Enhancing Projects
By : Syahrul Fitri
Every photo editing software offers the same essentially basic functions at their core. They may be found in different places with different names but their function is pretty much the same. This set of articles will describe the tools as laid out in Photoshop CS2, but the techniques, tips, and tricks in using them will be fairly transferable to different versions or different platforms.
If that were in fact the limits of the crop function then you could actually achieve that using the rectangular marquee tool to select the desired area of the photo then select the crop option from the Image drop down menu on the toolbar.
Here are some functions that make the crop tool useful and little more attractive to have at your disposal during your own Photo Enhancing and restoration projects.
You can do 2 steps using just the crop tool to rotate the image and carry out a simple rectangular framed crop. First after you drag the crop marquee over the image and release the mouse button, you will notice the pointer changing to the double-headed "boomerang" and you can rotate the crop selection frame clockwise or anti-clockwise as necessary. When you are satisfy with your selection just press enter, or click on the tick mark on the toolbar, or double-click the mouse inside the crop frame to complete the crop.
Fix perspective problems at the same time as cropping by first dragging a crop marquee over the image. First click the Perspective checkbox on the toolbar. Then you drag on a corner of the marquee the corners move independently of each other allowing you to position the marquee along the lines you want to crop to in the image and crop the image it is cropped and distorted to create a rectangular image. You can use this to fix distorted perspective in your images or just create some fun results.
You want to crop an image to a particular size as you can essentially create a window onto the image. You can, instead, simply hide the cropped area rather than permanently deleting it. To do this, you need to be working on a layer and not the background layer. Drag a crop rectangle over the image and from the tool options bar, select the Hide option. When you double click the cropped area will be hidden but still accessible. You can select the Move tool and reposition the image inside the area that you have cropped it to.
You can customizing crop presets by selecting the crop tool you can choose from various presets by clicking the dropdown list to the immediate right of the tool in the tool options bar. First, click a preset and drag on the image to create the crop marquee. You can switch from a portrait crop to a landscape one by clicking on the opposing arrows button on the tool bar between the width and the height boxes before you draw your frame. If you have already drawn your crop selection frame change between portrait and landscape by rotating the selection frame by 90 degrees. Do this step accurately by holding down the shift key while you rotate as this constrains the rotation to 15 degree intervals.
Just set the width, height and resolution in the tool options bar and then activate the fly-out menu from the crop tool drop-down menu and select New Tool Preset. If you have a particular need to have all your photos a special size then you can create your own custom preset that adds to the list of existing presets. Give it a descriptive name you will remember and click OK, and it will appear at the bottom of the presets list where you can select and use it anytime in the future.
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