From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Finessing a crop with Canvas Size - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Finessing a crop with Canvas Size
- In this movie, I'll show you how to precisely finesse a crop boundary, using the canvas size command. Which allows you to adjust the size of the four walls of the canvas, independently of any layers. Alight, so we're currently looking at the flat, original version of the photograph. At which point I'll go ahead and switch to the crop tool. Which you can get by pressing the "c" key. And then I'll zoom out a little bit here. And I'll go ahead and drag this edge down, so I can keep track of what's going on, as I drag outside the crop boundary, like so. And by the way, things are going to look a little jagged when you're rotating an image. And that's because we're currently looking at a preview. It might get a little more smooth if you zoom in. But what I'm going to do, is drag this guy a little to high. Notice that I'm exposing this wedge right here. And I'm also going to drag it a little to low. Now I don't want to…
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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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