The Photoshop® CS Book for Digital Photographers

Cropping Photos

After you sort your images in the Browser, one of the first editing tasks you’ll probably undertake is cropping a photo. There are a number of different ways to crop a photo in Photoshop. We’ll start with the basic garden variety, and then we’ll look at some ways to make the task faster and easier.

Step One.	Press the letter “c” to get the Crop tool (you could always select it directly from the Toolbox, but I only recommend doing so if you’re charging by the hour). © BRAND X PICTURES
Step Two.	Click within your photo and drag ...