Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

Chapter
3
Chapter
Straighten, Crop,
and Resize
Whether you work on design projects and
professional photographs, or simply use
Photoshop to improve your snapshots, your
digital photos almost always need to be resized
or adjusted to fit your projects. A well-balanced
image, free from odd-looking distortions, can
mean the difference between a snapshot and a
good photograph. The overall layout of the
image and where the main subject is placed in
relation to the background are essential visual
elements in any image. A crooked horizon or
unbalanced subject matter can make even a
great image look like the work of a beginner.
Photoshop includes a variety of tools and filters
to improve the composition of any image. The
improved Crop tool makes cropping easier and
gives you more visual control. You can choose
to delete the cropped pixels, making the crop
permanent, or you can leave that option
deselected so your crops are nondestructive
and can be easily changed. You can crop by
selecting a preset aspect ratio, flip the
orientation of the crop box, or crop to a specific
size and resolution. You can toggle the visibility
of the cropped area to better judge your
composition, all while keeping your file
completely editable.
You can correct perspective or lens distortion
with the Crop tool or Lens Correction filter. You
can combine images to create a panorama
using Photoshop’s Photomerge; the software
does most of the work for you.
Photoshop makes all such traditionally timeconsuming
or difficult tasks quick and easy.
New tools and resampling algorithms help you
straighten, crop, adjust, and resize images,
saving hours of tedious work to make all your
images look better.