Using the Crop tool

- [Instructor] There are a variety of different reasons…that you might wanna crop your image.…So, when capturing images, my goal is…to fill the frame as fully as possible…so that I have the most amount of information…so that I can print the image as large as possible.…But sometimes, the entire frame isn't necessary…for the story that I'm trying to tell,…and like in a case, like this image,…cropping is going to help us to eliminate…the unnecessary or that irrelevant information…around the edges there.…So, let's take a look at the Crop tool in Photoshop.…

I'm gonna tap the C key to access the Crop tool,…but we can also choose it from the Toolbar right here.…Photoshop automatically places the crop marquee…around the entire image,…and you can start by repositioning the anchor points…either on the corners or in the center,…or you can simply click and drag out…a crop marquee in the image area.…From here, we can use any of the handles…in order to resize the crop,…including the ones in the center,…and we can reposition the crop…