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Using the Crop tool

Using the Crop tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using the Crop tool

In this exercise, I'm going to show you the basics of using the Crop tool inside of Photoshop. The Crop tool allows you to both crop and straighten an image in a single operation, which is going to work out great for this doubly crooked image right here. It's called Protector of Pisa.jpg. It's found inside the 06_crop straight folder. It comes to us from George Alexander of the Fotolia image library, about which you can learn more at fotolia.com/deke. Now I love these kinds of vacation snapshots where people are interacting with classic architecture. The problem with Pisa specifically is that when people photograph it, they seem to forget that there is actually such a thing as straight in the world. You can see that the photographer in this case, has given this woman too much credit. So not only has she pushed up the Tower of Pisa slightly, but in doing so, she has managed to push up the entire earth along with her. Now as we crop the image, we have the option of either giving here…

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