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Finessing a crop with Canvas Size

Finessing a crop with Canvas Size - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Finessing a crop with Canvas Size

- In this movie, I'll show you how to precisely finesse a crop boundary, using the canvas size command. Which allows you to adjust the size of the four walls of the canvas, independently of any layers. Alight, so we're currently looking at the flat, original version of the photograph. At which point I'll go ahead and switch to the crop tool. Which you can get by pressing the "c" key. And then I'll zoom out a little bit here. And I'll go ahead and drag this edge down, so I can keep track of what's going on, as I drag outside the crop boundary, like so. And by the way, things are going to look a little jagged when you're rotating an image. And that's because we're currently looking at a preview. It might get a little more smooth if you zoom in. But what I'm going to do, is drag this guy a little to high. Notice that I'm exposing this wedge right here. And I'm also going to drag it a little to low. Now I don't want to…

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