Cropping

Have you ever took a picture and noticed that the subject is a little bit hard to find, or you just wanted to cut off some items? Here's how you can do it.

Let's say that we have this photo, with a butterfly in it, and we want to trim down the picture to make the butterfly somehow be more emphased.



Let's open the picture above in Photoshop CS4. After doing that, select the Crop Tool from the toolbox (or just press C on your keyboard). Make a selection like this one:


Notice under the menu bar some settings for the Crop Tool. Adjusting the opacity value makes the rest of the uncropped picture less visible or more visible. I prefer to use a value of 90. The perspective button is used to make an irregular Crop selection. Will talk about that later.
When the selection is made, just right click on it and select Crop. That's it. Always save your work (different file)