Comments on: Complete Crop: 4 Tips For Cropping In Photoshop http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/11/16/complete-crop-4-tips-for-cropping-in-photoshop/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:31:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mniessen http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/11/16/complete-crop-4-tips-for-cropping-in-photoshop/comment-page-1/#comment-935258 mniessen Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:55:58 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=15834#comment-935258 Finally, after cropping with "hide" selected, you can at any time show the whole, original image again by clicking on "reveal all" in the "image" menu. It works even after having closed and reopened the file. Regards, Michaël Finally, after cropping with “hide” selected, you can at any time show the whole, original image again by clicking on “reveal all” in the “image” menu. It works even after having closed and reopened the file.

Regards,

Michaël

]]> By: mniessen http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/11/16/complete-crop-4-tips-for-cropping-in-photoshop/comment-page-1/#comment-935257 mniessen Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:51:26 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=15834#comment-935257 To avoid snapping to the edge of the image, you can also hold CTRL (cmd on Mac) while selecting the area to crop. In the crop options bar, there's this often overlooked option called "cropped ares" with the options "delete" (by default) and "hide". Selecting "hide" will simply hide everything that's not in the crop area, meaning that even after the crop, you can move your objects around and show again content that was cropped. Another trick is to make the crop area bigger than the canvas to extend it. After your crop area is selected, select a handle and drag it outside the canvas to include the extra area you would like to include in your image. If you had previously made a crop with the "hide" option selected, this will also reveal what was previously cropped. To avoid snapping to the edge of the image, you can also hold CTRL (cmd on Mac) while selecting the area to crop.

In the crop options bar, there’s this often overlooked option called “cropped ares” with the options “delete” (by default) and “hide”. Selecting “hide” will simply hide everything that’s not in the crop area, meaning that even after the crop, you can move your objects around and show again content that was cropped.

Another trick is to make the crop area bigger than the canvas to extend it. After your crop area is selected, select a handle and drag it outside the canvas to include the extra area you would like to include in your image. If you had previously made a crop with the “hide” option selected, this will also reveal what was previously cropped.

]]> By: purpleduck http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/11/16/complete-crop-4-tips-for-cropping-in-photoshop/comment-page-1/#comment-935201 purpleduck Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:53:14 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=15834#comment-935201 Thank you. Every month I crop a dozen or so photos for a newsletter and have been using the rotate and marquee tools. I had picked up a tip before about using the ruler to draw a line and then Rotate Arbitrary, which will then have the angle filled in. That was cool, but this just saved me about 5 steps! And no more futzing with the marquee! Thank you. Every month I crop a dozen or so photos for a newsletter and have been using the rotate and marquee tools. I had picked up a tip before about using the ruler to draw a line and then Rotate Arbitrary, which will then have the angle filled in. That was cool, but this just saved me about 5 steps! And no more futzing with the marquee!

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