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Cropping and straightening your photos

Cropping and straightening your photos - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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