The Photoshop® CS Book for Digital Photographers

Automated Close Cropping

Here’s another handy method of cropping that doesn’t use the Crop tool, and best of all, Photoshop does most of the work. It’s used for situations where you want blank areas surrounding your image to be cropped away—perfect for product shots, tight cropping of Web graphics, or whenever you want your photo cropped as tightly as possible.

Step One.	Open the image you want to be “close cropped.” In the example shown here, we have a product shot surrounded by white space. © BRAND X PICTURES [View full size image]
Step Two.	Go under the Image menu and choose Trim.
Step Three.	When the Trim dialog box appears, you can choose ...