Overlay Options. Size and proportions. Choose a ratio or size for the crop box. You can also choose a preset, enter your own, or even define your own preset values for later use. Choose a view to display overlay guides while cropping. To cycle through all the options, press O. Crop Options. Use Classic mode. Enable this option if you want to use the Crop tool like it was in previous versions of Photoshop CS5 and earlier. Auto Center Preview. Show Cropped Area.
Enable this option to display the area that is cropped. If this option is disabled, only the final area is previewed. Enable Crop Shield. Use the crop shield to overlay the cropped areas with a tint. You can specify a color and opacity. If you Enable Auto Adjust Opacity , the opacity is reduced when you edit the crop boundaries.
Delete cropped pixels. Disable this option to apply a non-destructive crop and retain pixels outside the crop boundaries. Non-destructive cropping does not remove any pixels. You can later click the image to see areas outside current crop borders.
Enable this option to delete any pixels that are outside the crop area. These pixels are lost and are not available for future adjustments. Photoshop now uses content-aware technology to intelligently fill in the gaps when you use the Crop tool for straightening or rotating an image, or expanding your canvas beyond the image's original size.
Follow these steps:. In the Options bar, select Content-Aware. The default Crop rectangle expands to include the whole image. Using the handles around the image, straighten or rotate it. To locate it quickly, just press the letter C on your keyboard. To make a crop selection, hold down the left mouse button and drag a rectangle across the image. A moving dotted line surrounds the selected area, and the area outside the selection is dark.
If your selection was imprecise, use the handles along the dotted line to shrink or enlarge the selection. You also can move your entire selection. To do so, place your pointer inside the selection so it becomes a black arrow. Now use your mouse to move the selection to another area. To undo your action, just open the Edit menu and select Undo Crop. On the other hand, if you like the cropped image, open the File menu, select Save As, give the cropped image a new name, and click Save.
The Crop Options Bar. With the Crop tool selected, but before making another selection, look up at the Crop Options bar. Photoshop lets us specify the pixel size and resolution of our cropped image. In the Width and Height fields, type To maintain the image's original resolution, leave the Resolution field empty.
Next, make a cropping selection, which will now be confined to a square shape due to the measurements you just designated.
Then click OK to close the dialog box:. The next time you need the preset, just click the Aspect Ratio option and choose it from the list:. To go back to resizing the crop border freely after entering a specific aspect ratio, clear the aspect ratio by clicking the Clear button:. So far, we've been cropping to a general aspect ratio, or a general shape. But the Crop Tool can also be used to crop your image to a specific size and resolution.
To do that, open the Aspect Ratio menu:. Instead of cropping my image to an 11 x 14 aspect ratio, let's say I want to crop it so that it will print at a specific size of 11 x 14 inches. Since I want the width to be larger than the height, I'll click inside the Width field and I'll enter Then I'll press the Tab key on my keyboard to jump to the Height field, and I'll enter 11 in for the height:. Notice that we now have a third box as well, and this is where we enter a Resolution value. Then to crop the image, I'll click the checkmark in the Options Bar.
To check the size and resolution of your cropped image, go up to the Image menu and choose Image Size :. And in the Image Size dialog box, we see that Photoshop has in fact cropped it to 14 x 11 inches at a resolution of pixels per inch.
Click Cancel to close the dialog box:. To undo the crop, go up to the Edit menu and choose Undo Crop. Before we move on to learning how to straighten an image, let's look at one more handy feature of the Crop Tool, and that's the crop overlay. I'll click on my image with the Crop Tool to bring up the cropping border. And notice the 3 x 3 grid that appears inside the border. This grid is known as the Rule of Thirds :.
The idea with the Rule of Thirds is that you can create a more interesting composition by placing your subject at, or near, one of the spots where the grid lines intersect:. While the Rule of Thirds can be useful, it's not the only overlay that's available to us.
To view the others, click the Overlay icon in the Options Bar:. The Golden Ratio is similar to the Rule of Thirds, but the intersection points are closer to the center which often creates a more natural result:. You can cycle through the overlays from your keyboard by pressing the letter O. Finally, another way to commit the crop is to just double-click inside the crop border:.
Related: How to crop images in a circle! So that's the basics of how to crop an image with the Crop Tool in Photoshop. Next we'll learn how the Crop Tool can also be used to rotate and straighten an image. To straighten an image, we can use Photoshop's Straighten Tool. The Straighten Tool is only available when the Crop Tool is active, and it's really more of a feature than an actual tool. Look for something in your image that should be straight, either vertically or horizontally.
In my case, it's the horizon line. Click on one end, keep your mouse button held down, and drag over to the other end.
Photoshop draws a path between the two points, and it uses this path to determine the angle that the image needs to be rotated:. Release your mouse button, and Photoshop rotates the image to straighten it. And because rotating the image created some transparent areas in the document's corners indicated by a checkerboard pattern , Photoshop also resized the crop border to keep those transparent corners out of the result:.
You can then resize the border if needed by dragging the handles. Hold Shift and drag a corner handle to lock the original aspect ratio, or drag inside the border to reposition the image:.
And that's how to straighten an image with the Crop Tool. I cover more ways to straighten an image in a separate tutorial.
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