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With the Photoshop Crop tool and the Image, Crop and Image, Trim commands, you can snip away unwanted portions of your image. Never before has it been so easy to cut ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends out of your photos.
Cut away the unpalatable parts of an image by using the Crop tool. To select the Crop tool without messing with the toolbox, press C. Here's how to use it:
Drag with the tool around the portion of the image you want to retain.
A dotted rectangle called a marquee follows your drag to clearly show the crop boundaries. Don't worry if you don't surround your image elements just right; you get the chance to edit the boundary in the next step.
Drag the crop boundaries as desired.
After you release your mouse button, Photoshop displays square handles around the edges of the marquee. If the marquee isn't the right size, drag a handle to change the crop boundary. Your cursor changes to a double-headed arrow when you place it over a handle, indicating that you have the go-ahead to drag the handle.
If you move the cursor outside the crop boundary, the cursor changes to a curved, double-headed arrow. Dragging then rotates the crop boundary.
After you get the crop boundary the way you want it, double-click inside the boundary to crop the image or press Accept in the Options bar.
Or press Enter (Return on a Mac). Photoshop throws away all the pixels outside the crop boundary. If you rotated the crop boundary in Step 2, Photoshop rights the rectangular area and thus rotates the image.
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