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Introducing the Photoshop Crop tool

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Introducing the Photoshop Crop tool

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- I'll start things off by introducing you to the crop tool. And I'll also show you how to scale and rotate a crop boundary. And so here we've got the crop tool, it comes with a keyboard shortcut of "c", by the way, and notice as soon as you select it, you're seeing a preview of the crop boundary along with these implied handles right here. But you don't have to drag on the handles, you can just drag on the edges if you want to, or you can drag on a corner in order to scale the crop boundary like so. If you want to scale with respect to the center of the crop boundary, then press the Alt key, or the Option key as you drag. Now, the real problem with this image is that it's crooked. And when you're evaluating whether an image is crooked or not, you want to look at the horizon line. And so notice if I bring the top of the crop boundary down, that horizon line is way out of plumb. And so your option now is to move your cursor…

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