Adobe Photoshop Visual QuickStart Guide

4. Crop and Straighten Images

In This Chapter

• Cropping a Photo

• Cropping with Content-Aware Fill

• Straightening Images

• Perspective Cropping

• Rotating or Flipping an Entire Image

• Changing the Canvas Size

• Erasing Parts of an Image

A good crop is often one of the most important—and simplest—things you can do to improve an image. The edges of an image make up its frame, and your choice of framing strengthens what you think is important. If you’re the one capturing the image, you can crop in camera, but even with the best forethought in the world, you may change your mind when you see the image on screen. You may need to crop to remove distracting elements, to emphasize what’s important, or to repurpose an image for a specific page or screen size ...