From the course: Photoshop CC for Photographers: The Basics
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Cropping and straightening your photos - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC for Photographers: The Basics
Cropping and straightening your photos
One of the big advantage of using Camera Raw is that it allows you to apply adjustments non-destructively. In other words you can always undo what you've done. So therefore let's take a look at three examples of how we can crop our images in non-destructive ways. We'll be working with these three images here so click into one then hold down the Cmd key on a Mac or Ctrl key on Windows and then click into the other two. Next let's navigate to the File Pull down menu. And here, we'll choose Open in Camera RAW. This will open up these three photographs. This first one is a portrait that I captured. And I just want to crop this down to a smaller size. So here to do that, we'll click on the Crop tool icon, which you can find located up top. Next simply click and drag across your image, in doing that you can extend this across the file. Now you can also change the type of crop that you have by clicking on this icon and looking at the Pull down menu, here we could choose a particular aspect…
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Correcting exposure and recovering highlights6m 47s
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Cropping and straightening your photos4m 40s
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Correcting lens distortions4m 54s
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Retouching a portrait with the Spot Removal tool (CC 2014.1)5m 51s
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Retouching with the Spot Removal tool5m 49s
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Cleaning up photographs with the Spot Removal tool (CC 2014.1)4m 15s
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Making selective adjustments5m 55s
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Painting in improvements with the Adjustment Brush (CC 2014.1)4m 53s
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Improving the sky with the Graduated filter (CC 2014.1)6m 25s
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Adding light with the Radial filter (CC 2014.1)3m 48s
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Improving multiple images at one time3m 31s
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Sharpening and reducing noise7m 53s
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Saving and opening raw files in Photoshop (CC 2014.1)4m 32s
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Saving and opening raw files in Photoshop4m 31s
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