Cropping

In this exercise, I will show you how to crop and rotate an image inside…Photoshop while still permitting yourself the leeway, to recompose the…shot after the crop.…I'm working inside a file called Precarious workspace.jpg.…It's found inside the exercise files folder.…You can both crop and rotate an image inside Photoshop using a single tool and…that's the Crop tool.…Then drag inside the image window, in order to define a preliminary crop boundary.…Now notice at this point, you can drag one of these corner handles to change the…size of the boundary, you can either drag a top or side handle as well.…

Notice also that we have these two vertical and two horizontal guidelines.…Those are a visual depiction, of the classic rule of thirds, which states that…the primary compositional elements inside of your photograph, ought to be…aligned to the intersection of two of those guide.…Now, this is a great rule of thumb, but that's all it is.…You can choose to adhere to it or not adhere to it, depending on your personal taste.…