In this lesson we're going to learn how you crop photos using Camera Raw in Photoshop.
Now I'm sorry that I've been a little bit rambling or waffling the past couple lessons but there's a
lot of sort of preamble to understanding how Photoshop works and how to properly how you have a proper
workflow as a photo editor.
So let's get straight to it though to crop and editor in the camera RAR settings.
You're gonna click this crop tool and then you can literally just click and drag over your image to
crop.
Right now I'm locked at a specific aspect ratio and I think it's like 16 by nine or something.
But if you click and hold down on this crop feature you have different presets for your aspect ratio.
You could have normal which just means I can create any sort of shape a square or a rectangle anyways.
And so now I can edit it freely but typically I want to stick to as a perfect aspect ratio.
And this depends on what my uses if I'm doing something for Instagram for example and I want a square.
I would do a one to one ratio and then I could move this crop around.
I can make it bigger or smaller.
And then when you're done with the crop you can just press the return key on your keyboard.
I'm going to go back into my crop and you'll see that you have more options like five by seven and if
you want a specific aspect ratio for example for a print like eight and a half by 11 or eight by 10
then you can create your own custom crop.
So say I want a 8 by 10 photo then I would create that 8 by 10.
Now I can rotate this around as well and I can rotate it any way if I hold the Shift key down it kind
of locks it to sort of like I don't know how many degrees that is like 15 degrees or something.
And so this makes it easier for me to get it perfectly straight up and down if I want sort of a portrait
style crop if I click and hold again.
You can set to that original crop you can clear the crop if you saw that menu right there.
Clear crop.
If you did do a crop and then you want to undo that you can say clear crop.
So for me for this photo I'm going to actually do the 8 by 10 and crop like that click and drag.
I'm going to have a portrait just like that scary portrait of Sam and then press the return key or go
to any of these other tools to get out of the crop mode.
This magnifying glass is kind of the typical tool that you have in photo camera RA.
If you click you zoom in if you hold the option key or alter key on a P.C. and click you zoom out OK
so that's how you crop in the next lesson we'll look at fixing white balance.