PS cropping tool tips: how to use PS cropping tool

Among all the functions of PS, cropping may be an inconspicuous small role. After all, such basic operations are available in many graph repair software, which is not uncommon at all. What's the big deal. However, as an Adobe fan, it is true that no function is used. Therefore, this article explores the ten tips in the "crop" tool, so that it can play more functions, promote the harmony of PS, efficient and refreshing work.

1. Guide to cropping and composing

When we select a cropping tool to crop images, PS provides the "set the overlapping options of the cropping tool" function, you don't need to worry about the official Turning. Its function is to provide a reference line for the cropping in the diagram, it consists of the following six composition principles: three levels, grid, diagonal corner, triangle, golden proportion, and golden spiral. The selection operation is also very simple. Right-click and choose from the drop-down menu, alternatively, you can directly select the keyboard shortcut letter O in sequence, as shown in the following figure:

Select a reference line

PS: shift + o can change the direction of the triangle or Golden Nut.

2. Change the cropping direction

Now everyone has multiple screens, and the design faces more and more application scenarios. Therefore, many people are faced with the need to change the landscape map or landscape map, in the cropping tool, you only need to use the keyboard shortcut key letter X to change the cropping direction while maintaining the proportion, as shown in the following animation:

Shortcut key X to change the cropping direction

3. Hide the cropping area

By default, the cropped part is displayed on the canvas in the form of fades. If you do not need the cropped part, you can click the "gear" button in the option bar to activate the drop-down menu, deselect "show cropping area", or press the keyboard shortcut key H to switch between Display and hide the cropping area, the animation is shown as follows:

Shortcut key H to hide the cropping area

PS: You can also set the color and opacity of the canvas.

4. Classic cropping mode: cropping frame

In fact, what we want to talk about here is that, by default, the reference line of the crop chart guide does not change during the cropping operation. We can only move the image to determine which ones are cropped, what is left. If you do not like this mode, you can click the "use classic mode" or press the shortcut key P to move the image, you can move or rotate the reference line of the cropping chart guide.

Switch back to classic mode

5. Front image

During cropping, the option bar provides a variety of ratios, such as the original ratio, and so on, which are fixed. However, sometimes we may like the proportion of image A and want to crop Image B according to the proportion of image A. The "previous image" function comes in handy. First, we need to open two images. In the document of image A, select the cropping tool, click "preset aspect ratio" in the option bar, and select "previous image" from the drop-down menu ", then, in the inverted B chart document, select the cropping tool and pull out the cropping box with the mouse, which is the proportion of the chart. As shown in the following figure:

Easy to use front image

6. Determine the cropping method.

After cropping, you can determine whether to accept the cropping result by using the following methods:

1. Press Enter directly.

2. Double-click an image

3. Click check box on the right of the cropping tool option bar.

4. Right-click the image and select crop from the context menu.

5. Choose menu bar Image> crop.

As shown in the following figure:

Directly click to check

Menu bar confirmation

Context menu confirmation

7. Fluoroscopy and cropping tools

When shooting a building, you may occasionally encounter incorrect pivoting due to building distortion. In this case, you can select "Edit> pivoting deformation" on the menu bar, and then when the frame line appears, fix the four corners to tell you how to do the PS small public lift, and then click Enter. Alternatively, you can use the lens correction function in the ACR filter.

Pivot deformation

8. Non-destructive cropping

When we use PS, we always have a special hope for "regret", which can make us find that when we make a mistake, we can go back and redo it, that is, the operation is lossless and non-destructive, at this time, there are two ways to achieve non-destructive:

1. Deselect "delete cropped pixels" in the cropping option bar"

2. Convert the cropped image layer to "intelligent object". To start over, select "image> show all" on the menu bar, as shown in the following figure:

Great Smart Object method

9. Extended canvas cropping tool

This is an alternative requirement, that is, in addition to common small-to-small cropping, the PS small public lift also supports us to crop large, this only needs to pull the crop box, expand the cropping box. Click the Enter key to confirm. If there is no background layer in the document, the extended part will be transparent. If there is a background layer, the extended part will be the background color.

Scale crop

10. Picture correction

The cropping tool also provides the image correction function. The operation is also very simple. Open the image, press Ctrl and pull a straight line with the mouse, and press enter to confirm.

Correction image