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Cropping everything outside the canvas

Cropping everything outside the canvas - Photoshop Tutorial

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Cropping everything outside the canvas

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- [Narrator] All right now, even though I've been emphasizing the advantages of nondestructive cropping, especially in "Camera Raw," not everything works that way. For example, the perspective crop tool always rewrites every single pixel in an image. So it is by definition a destructive crop. And then there's other times that you really want a destructive modification. You just want to get rid of the cropped pixels, because your image files are getting too big, or the image takes up too much in memory, or you want to be able to hand off the artwork to somebody else, and not give them more information than they need. So for example, consider this image right here. It looks like it's more or less square, but there's actually a heck of a lot more going on. And so notice if I were to right click on the thumbnail for the coaster layer, here inside the layers panel, and choose Select Pixels, that we are selecting the…

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