From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Cropping without deleting any pixels - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Cropping without deleting any pixels
- Now I'll show you how to crop an image non destructively or at least as non destructively as it gets, using the crop tool. So let's say that I'm looking at this image and I want to get back some more sky. Well initially it appears that I've lost my crop boundaries. Even though the crop tool's selected I'm not seeing any boundary at all. But I can bring it back just by clicking inside the image window. But notice if I drag up in order to expose more sky, all I'm going to get is white, or whatever the background color is down here at the bottom of the toolbox. That's because by default the crop tool goes ahead and throws away any cropped pixels. So notice over here in the layers panel. There's an implication that we have layers, but if I was to press the escape key in order to abandon my changes, I would see that I have a flat background, and the background is never any bigger than the fore walls of the canvas. So…
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Too many pixels1m 39s
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Introducing the Photoshop Crop tool2m 52s
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Cropping without deleting any pixels3m 45s
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Aspect ratio and other tricks5m 5s
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Working with the reference point3m 31s
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Finessing a crop with Canvas Size4m 58s
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Using Content-Aware crop2m 38s
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Two ways to use the Straighten tool4m 8s
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Straightening with the Ruler tool2m 58s
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Cropping away all transparent pixels5m 11s
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Cropping and straightening in Camera Raw3m 51s
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Using the Perspective Crop tool3m 4s
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Cropping everything outside the canvas3m 13s
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