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Using the Perspective Crop tool

Using the Perspective Crop tool - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Using the Perspective Crop tool

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- In this movie, I'll show you how to use the lesser known, but actually very exciting Perspective Crop Tool, which allows you to correct an image element that's captured in perspective. So in my case what I want to do is extract this painting from its frame, so that we're viewing it straight on. The first step is to go ahead and click and hold on the Crop Tool to bring up this fly-out menu, and then choose the second option, Perspective Crop Tool. Now the thing you need to know about this tool, is that it always applies destructive modifications. In other words, there's no delete pixels check box that you can turn off up here in the options bar. So with that in mind, what you do is, you go ahead and drag inside the image in order to establish an initial rectangular crop boundary, and then you drag each of the corners like so, into the desired locations. Now what I'm going to do is set things up pretty generally at first, and then I'm going to zoom in on the image so I can make sure…

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