From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Aspect ratio and other tricks - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Aspect ratio and other tricks
- [Deke] All right let's talk about aspect ratio which is the relationship between the width and the height of the crop boundary. And so let's say I set in cropping the image again, but this time I'm not going to rotate it so it won't be a destructive modification at all. If I want to be able to move this boundary on the fly as I'm creating it, then I can press and hold the space bar and drag the boundary around. And then, when I want to set it down again, I release the space bar, at which point I am once again scaling the crop boundary. All right now let's say I make it thinner, like so, and I now want to maintain whatever aspect ratio this is. Again, that's the relationship between the width and the height. In that case, as I drag a handle, I would press the Shift key, as you see me doing right here. But if I go too far with the drag, it's going to flip from being vertical, like we saw a moment ago, to being…
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Too many pixels1m 39s
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Introducing the Photoshop Crop tool2m 52s
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Cropping without deleting any pixels3m 45s
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Aspect ratio and other tricks5m 5s
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Working with the reference point3m 31s
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Finessing a crop with Canvas Size4m 58s
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Using Content-Aware crop2m 38s
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Two ways to use the Straighten tool4m 8s
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Straightening with the Ruler tool2m 58s
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Cropping away all transparent pixels5m 11s
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Cropping and straightening in Camera Raw3m 51s
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Using the Perspective Crop tool3m 4s
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Cropping everything outside the canvas3m 13s
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