How to crop in Photoshop without losing quality. How to make cropping more successful with Photoshop

Using this tool is quite simple. In newer versions of Photoshop, cropping borders are automatically set at the edges of the image when you select Frames. The cropping area can be edited by dragging the frame using the handles located at the corners and in the center of each side. As soon as you release the mouse button, the areas that need to be cropped will turn dark.

To move the crop frame while creating it, press and hold the Spacebar. When it's in the right place, release the Spacebar and continue drawing the frame. You can expand it by moving the mouse pointer past the outer border. In this case, the cursor will take the form of a double-headed arrow. Click on the image and move the mouse pointer. The frame will rotate in the specified direction.

Once you have defined the crop boundaries, press Enter. The outer edges of the picture will be removed. If you're cropping an image that has multiple layers, you can have Photoshop simply hide the cropped portions instead of deleting them. To do this, in the Options panel, set the Clipping switch to Hide. Now you can return the cropped area using the "Image" - "Show All" command.

If you want to crop an image to a specific size, enter the Width and Height values ​​in the Options panel. You can also keep the aspect ratio of the original image or set specific aspect ratios.

How to straighten a photo

If the horizon in the picture is littered, you can straighten it out using the Perspective Crop tool. It is located under the same button as the "Frame" and is also called using the C hotkey. To switch between tools, use the Shift + C combination.

Create a crop box around the element you want to straighten and drag the corner handles so that they are parallel to the lines of the image. Press Enter. This method works well for architectural shots, but don't use it for framing photographs of people or animals. The tool distorts the proportions and living beings will look like in a distorted mirror.

You can use the Ruler tool to straighten your photo. It is hidden in the Eyedropper toolbox and called hot key I. Position the cursor at the point where the measurement should start and draw a line through the area to be aligned. In the Options bar, click the Straighten button. The photo will be straightened and cropped.

Framing principles

Poor cropping can ruin even a good shot. When cropping a photo, try not to place the subject in the geometric center of the picture - this technique is only suitable for depicting static monumental objects. Don't leave too much space at the top of the photo - the photo will look empty. If you want to show an item close-up, then as a result of cropping it should take 70-80% of the picture.

If the photo shows a moving object, it should not rest against the edges of the picture. Leave more space in the direction of travel. It is better to place it on the right side of the photo. In this case, the view of the viewer and the object seem to be moving towards each other. If necessary, you can rotate the image using the "Edit" - "Transform" - "Rotate Horizontally" command.

Photos of roads, rivers, fences will look more dynamic if these objects are placed diagonally across the image. At the same time, the composition, directed from the upper right corner of the picture to the lower left, looks calmer.

"Golden Ratio" and "Rule of Thirds"

To create a harmonious image, professional artists use the principle of the "Golden Ratio". It is noticed that regardless of the image format, the four points of the composition always attract the viewer. They are at a distance of 3/8 and 5/8 from the corresponding edges of the plane. The main objects should be located near these points.

The Rule of Thirds is a simplified version of the Golden Ratio. When applied, the image is visually divided into three parts horizontally and vertically. In this case, the horizon should coincide with one of the horizontal lines, and the main subjects of the survey are located near the intersection points.

IN latest version In Photoshop CC, the Frame tool has gained another handy feature. When cropping, the program automatically shows a grid that allows you to divide the image into parts. At the same time, in the "Options" panel, you can choose between several types of grid: "Rule of Thirds", "Grid", "Diagonal", "Triangle", " golden ratio”, “Golden

Good day to you, dear visitors of my blog. Has it ever happened to you that you are taking pictures, and then BAM ... and some alien element got into the frame, such as a man, woman or child running past, and even looked into the frame as if it was necessary. I personally have had such cases more than once. I still thought: “Here is a scoundrel! Where did you come from here?

It also happens that the photo turned out to be crooked and then you have to cunningly squeeze out to make the photo straighter. But I will show you how to make this process easier. You will learn how to crop any image in Photoshop. This will help us tool "Frame".

With the framework we can:

• Straighten a crooked (skewed) image
• Crop unwanted objects
• Cut out only the desired fragment from the image (ideal for avatars)
• And much more.

So, you are ready. Well then, let's see how to use this tool.

Trimming extra objects

Well, let's start with cutting. In the photo you can see how some guy got into the frame from the side, although it was clearly not planned to put him here. This is where cropping will help us, i.e. frame (Pan Crop).

By the way, this photo can be cropped not only from the left side, but also from the upper left corner. To do this, hover over the upper left corner of the photo until a double diagonal arrow appears. And again, holding down the left mouse button, drag down and to the left until the unnecessary space is covered with dark. This will cut not only this weirdo, but also the top piece (if necessary).

In general, the point is that from which side you need to cut the object, pull from that side. The tool is just wonderful for such things.

Photo alignment

As I said above, we can not only crop unnecessary objects, but also straighten crooked photos. Let's look at an example. Let's say we have a photo that is tilted.

The only negative with this method is that a small part of the photo is cropped. Those. To achieve evenness of the photo, you need to crop a little around the edges. Something like this. But as a rule, this can be sacrificed. For example, in our case, for sure. Well, did it work with this method? Very well.

Cutting a fragment

Another good area of ​​application for this tool is cutting out a fragment of an image. For example, I constantly use such a chip to create avatars for contacts, mail, forums, etc. A very useful thing.

Let's say you have a photo where there are a lot of unwanted objects and for the avatar you want to cut out only yourself.

Like this. Everything seems to be explained clearly, but if there are any questions or misunderstandings, then do not be shy and ask.

Also, if you notice, then when cropping, the photo (image) is divided into 9 parts, i.e. it is separated by 3 vertical and 3 horizontal lines. This effect is called "Rule of Thirds". This rule implies conditional division of the image by three horizontal and three vertical lines. And it is believed that the best attention is focused not in the center, but at the intersection of these lines.

Many photographers and artists use these rules. So if you want to follow this rule of thirds, then you can shift the image so that the key object is at the intersection of the lines.

Crop with aspect ratio

Well, let me tell you about a little chip. By default, framing is free-floating. Those. it all depends on how you move the mouse up and down and left and right. It turns out an arbitrary aspect ratio.

But you can set this ratio yourself. To do this, in frame mode, go to the tool's properties. There you will see 2 cells with arrows between them. This is where you can set the ratio. For example, if you write 2 in the left cell and 1 in the right cell, then the process will proceed evenly and cropping horizontally will always be twice as much as vertically.

You can also set the ratio from the list of templates. To do this, simply open the drop-down list in the properties of the Frame tool. If you choose 1:1, then the selection will be even and square, if 16:9, then, as you understand, everything in this ratio will be cropped. Hope you get the point? I think yes.

You can learn more about the frame tool, as well as all other tools, in this excellent video course. With it, any beginner can master Photoshop in 1-2 weeks, if you devote an hour a day. The lessons are simply magnificent, they look excited. In general, I highly recommend you.

Well, on this I finish our today's lesson and I really hope that you liked it. Do not forget to subscribe to updates of my blog articles, then you will be the first to know about everything interesting. See you in the next lessons. Bye bye!

Sincerely, Dmitry Kostin.

In this photo manipulation tutorial, we'll explain how to properly crop images and look at several ways to use the Crop Tool.

For photo editors, this tool is extremely important and necessary, thanks to cropping, the photo takes on a completely different look. We can crop the edges of an image to create a new composition, or we can remove unwanted objects from the frame at the borders of a photo, just as photographers used to cut their photos with guillotine shears after developing.

When should you crop an image?

Very often, due to lack of time, we are forced to neglect building the correct composition in the frame directly during the shooting.

But thanks to Photoshop, we have the opportunity to change the composition after shooting using the Crop Tool or Frame / Crop in the Russian version of the program.

Also, this tool has additional functions designed to teach the basics of composition, such as the Rule of Thirds. We will tell you more about this a little later.

With the help of Crop, we can not only get rid of unnecessary objects in the frame, but also correct very common mistakes. For example, we can correct a horizon littered in a photo, which is a blunder and annoys viewers no less than a picture hanging crookedly on the wall.

We will show you how to use cropping to position the horizon parallel to the top and bottom of the photo.

It is sometimes difficult to prepare pictures for printing when the aspect ratio of the cropped image does not match the aspect ratio of the image that has not been cropped. This problem is especially significant if you want to combine photos into one series.

We'll show you how to use the Crop/Frame tool to crop photos while retaining the shape and proportions of the original photo.

Where is the Crop Tool or Crop Tool?

In the Photoshop Crop Tool, you will find it in the Toolbar in its uppermost compartment, which indicates the frequency of use of this tool.

If you click on the tool's icon and hold down the mouse button, you'll see that it has several sub-sections, such as the Slice Tool, which is typically used by web designers to clip portions of a Photoshop document for web pages. In early versions of the program, Slice Tools occupied a separate niche, but over time they were merged with Crop Tools.

What can I do with the Crop Tool?

Here we'll show you how to use this tool to improve the composition of a photo, correct cluttered horizons, and resize an image for printing.

Improving the composition

Looking through the footage, we choose the most good photos, and as often happens, there are very few such photos. The chances of getting a good shot increase if you use the Rule of Thirds.

According to this compositional technique, the frame is divided into nine equal parts using a grid. By placing subjects in the compartments created by the grid, at the intersection of lines, or along the lines, we significantly improve the composition of the photo.

Professional photographer David Bailey, using the example of a photo of a girl, showed how effectively you can crop a portrait, leaving part of the image outside the frames and cutting off the top of the model’s head, thereby making it more restrained and at the same time intimate.

Get creative with the framing process, use a square frame instead of a standard one, often this option looks more impressive.

Using the crop grid blend mode

1. Draw a square

Open the original image. Select the Crop tool from the toolbar. Hold down the Shift key (this combination makes the crop area square) and select the area you want to keep. The area that will be removed after cropping will be painted in transparent gray, and the untouched fragment of the image will remain 100% visible.

2. Keep balance

In the Options Bar, set the View Mode to Rule of Thirds. Drag the crop square so that the line intersections are positioned over the model's eyes. Next, position the mouse cursor outside the crop square and rotate it to change the angle of the model's head and achieve symmetry.

3. Creative framing

Now drag the crop box to the right to leave the left side of the model's face outside. The result still follows the Rule of Thirds: the eye, nose, and mouth are in the left third, the hair is in the middle third, and there is empty space in the right third.

4. Changing the framing screen settings

The area outside the cropping window is displayed as a gray translucent screen by default, which helps you to focus directly on the fragment that will remain after cropping.

If you want to completely hide the area that will be clipped, you can change its transparency. To do this, in the options panel, set the Opacity to 100% in the Enable Crop Shield section.

You can also choose any color to display the clipped area, or by unchecking Enable Crop Shield, completely disable the crop shield.

Correcting errors by framing

In addition to improving composition, framing also allows you to correct some of the mistakes made when shooting. To cover the entire landscape, we had to zoom out as much as possible, as a result, the edges of the hood fell into the frame. Also in the upper left corner of the photo, we see a darkening that we do not need.

We photographed from a boat, so it was quite difficult to take a photo with a perfect horizon line, the horizon was a little filled up, but fortunately, it is possible to correct such blots with cropping.

Select the Crop Tool in the toolbar, select our photo, set the view mode to Rule of Thirds.

Then hold down the Shift key, in this case this will keep the original aspect ratio of the photo. With the Shift key held down, move the mouse cursor over the upper left corner of the photo and drag it so as to leave the blackout and the hood included in the frame behind the crop area.

Drag the cropping box to place the stone in the bottom left corner of the grid. The mountain must remain in the central part of the grid. To correct a bulging horizon line, position the cursor outside the crop box and rotate it so that the horizon line runs parallel to the horizontal grid lines.

Change of size

Sometimes, when sending a series of photos for printing, we get partially normally printed photos that occupy the entire sheet of photo paper, and partially cropped. Now we will introduce you to a step-by-step guide to correct and accurate framing.

How to resize a photo?

1. Choose the scale

Open the original image. Select the Crop tool, on the left side of the options bar, click on the arrow located next to the tool icon and from the presented cropping presets, select 5 inch x 7 inch 300 ppi (5 inches x 7 inches, 300 pixels per inch).

2. Change the orientation of the photo

By default, the preset will create an orientation for a portrait photo, but we need a landscape format. To switch orientation, there is a special button in the options bar in the form of a rounded arrow, you can also change the orientation by pressing the X key on your keyboard.

3. Checking the size

To complete cropping, click on the tool icon and select Crop the Image from the pop-up window. Next, go to Image> Image Size (Image, Image Size). Select inches as the unit of measure. We will see that the image size is 7 inches wide by 5 inches high with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch.

How to use the Crop/Frame tool

Below we have demonstrated the key parameters of the Crop/Box tool. Enjoy all the features of this invaluable tool, and we'll show you everything you need to know about this tool.

• Fast switching. Click on this icon to change the preset image orientation. We can choose landscape or portrait orientation.
• Overlay. To overlay a grid according to the Rule of Thirds, select Rule of Thirds from the list. Or choose another grid that suits you.
• Framing Screen darkens the area that will be cut off during the cropping process. To turn off the screen, uncheck the box.
• Reinstalling a preset. Here you can set a preset for cropping with specific sizes and resolutions.
• Reset. To reset a preset, click on the tool icon in the options bar and select Reset tool
• Opacity and color. Lower the opacity of the Screen to make the area that will be cropped more visible. You can also change the color of the screen here.
• Perspective. When framing architectural photographs, use this option to manually correct perspective.
• neighboring instruments. In the same section with the Crop/Frame tool, there are less functional Cutting tools. To switch between them, use the key combination Shift+C.

Basic tool parameters

With the Crop Tool selected in the toolbar, click on the image and drag the mouse to draw a crop box (01).

Use the Rule of Thirds grid overlay for a more concise composition (02).

By default, the clipping area is highlighted with a gray translucent screen, which sometimes makes it difficult to concentrate on the area we are going to leave, especially if the photo is black and white. In this case, you can change the color and opacity of the screen (03).

To apply a crop to an image, click on the tool icon. Or click on any other tool in the toolbar, then a pop-up window will appear in which the program will ask you if you are going to crop the image or not (04).

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Crop tool - Photoshop Frame
Crop Frame Photoshop

Crop a photo- these are special actions to change the scale and position of the image within the boundaries of a given frame when taking a photo or when processing it in Photoshop, for storing and then using this photo.

Of course, it is necessary to correctly crop photos when taking photographs, but this is not always possible. But even if the photo is framed flawlessly at this stage, it may need to be resized for some purpose. It is more convenient to crop photos in Photoshop, as it has more options for this.

Cropping photos in Photoshop after taking a photo is necessary in three main cases. Firstly, if the photo needs to be output to some external device, such as a printer or TV. Secondly, if you need to remove image composition errors. And thirdly, for creative work like making collages.

Before cropping a photo

Cropping a photo is directly related to changing its size and resolution, which are closely related. Changing one of these values ​​changes the others. Before cropping photos in Photoshop, you first need to recalculate the dimensions and resolution, bring them to a clear form, and only then work with them.

This is especially true for those files. digital photos that have been scanned from film negatives or slides. In this case, a high resolution is set, for example 2400 dpi, with a frame size of 36 by 24 mm. To accurately crop a photo in Photoshop, the dimensions must be an order of magnitude higher, and the resolution an order of magnitude lower.

To recalculate the size and resolution of a photo before cropping in Photoshop, you need to select the “Image Size” item on the top panel in the “Image” menu. A window of the same name will open for setting the size and resolution of the photo. You can open this window faster using the hot buttons « alt» + « ctrl» + « I» (Fig. 1).

Rice. 1 Photoshop program window for recalculating the size and resolution of a photo when cropping

Immediately you need to uncheck the box next to the "Interpolation" item. This is necessary so that the image dimensions and resolution change simultaneously and affect each other. If the checkbox is checked, then when changing the resolution, only the dimension in pixels will decrease. The size of the printout will remain the same.

For example, if you uncheck "Interpolation" and change the resolution from 2400 dpi to 300 dpi (Fig. 1), the dimension will remain the same, and the dimensions of the printed print will change from 3.5 x 2.2 to 27.9 x 17.5 cm. Such dimensions are clearer to us and we can consciously work with them in Photoshop when cropping a photo.

How to crop photos

In Photoshop, you can crop photos in different ways, it depends on ultimate goal framing. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that cropping is a way of resizing a photo by cropping it from one or more sides. This process is irreversible and you need to think carefully before cutting a photo.

In order to crop a photo in Photoshop in a different way or in some other way, you need to crop not the photo itself, but its copy. The photograph must be stored unchanged in a digital photo archive. All cropped copies of photographs must be stored separately in this photo archive.

Such separate storage of a photo allows you not to repeat the process of cropping it twice, and if you wish, you can do another cropping of the same photo in Photoshop at any time. Thus, it is possible to crop any photo many times in different ways.

Before you start cropping a photo in Photoshop, you need to determine exactly what it is for. The type of cropping will depend on this - normal, with rotation or with image deformation. This must be determined in advance, since different methods and tools of the Photoshop program are used for each type of cropping.

Photo crop tools

You can use several different tools to crop photos in Photoshop. Depending on the purpose of framing, the desired tool or their sharing is selected.

Photoshop's main photo cropping tool is " Frame". Most often, photos are cropped using this particular tool.

To crop photos in Photoshop, you can use all the tools allocation, which create a dashed frame on the image - an ant track.

With the tool " Ruler»In Photoshop, you can expand and crop the image. Deletes areas of the photo that go beyond its dimensions when rotated.

You can crop a photo in Photoshop without changing its size. In this case, the image is reduced, and its scale is increased. For this, they are used layers.

Tool " Canvas size"This is perhaps the easiest tool for cropping photos in Photoshop. With this tool, you can quickly set the final dimensions of photos or specify how much to crop them on one or more sides.

Another handy photo cropping tool in Photoshop is " Trimming". With it, you can find the borders of shadows or feathered borders and crop the photo according to them.

How to work with each cropping tool in Photoshop, when and why it is better to use them, read in the following chapters of this article.

You may be used to taking the "crop" tool to select a part and images and press Enter. You will be surprised, but there are many other uses for this tool. In this article, Helen Bradley describes the five "biggest secrets" of cropping photos in Photoshop.

1 Rotate your crop

When you move the crop selection over your image, you can also rotate the selection for any of the catches. It's interesting to know that double-clicking on a selected area applies a crop. With the Shift button pressed, the rotation step is set to 15 degrees, and with the Alt button you can set the point around which the rotation occurs.

2 Correct perspective when cropping a photo

At the same time as cropping a photo, you can correct the perspective. To do this, check the "Perspective" box on the tool's property bar. Now you can arbitrarily drag the corners of the image. Applying the tool, you will again get a rectangular image. It's interesting to know that using the Shift key you can only drag one of the lines while the other one is fixed. With the Alt key, you can edit the crop zone, in normal mode with the "Perspective" checkbox enabled.

3 Cropping yes not quite

Cropped when cropping areas, you can simply hide. To do this, you need to create a copy of the layer, select the crop area and set the "Hide" option on the toolbar. When cropping, part of the image will be hidden, but still accessible.

Now you can select the move tool and move the image inside the crop area. This is useful if you want to crop an image with a fixed size and want to experiment with the part of the image that remains visible.

4 creating and using framing presets

When you click the crop tool button on the property bar, you can select different presets from the drop-down list. You can change the preset from portrait to landscape by rotating it 90 degrees.

You can also create your own presets that you need only. To do this, you need to set the framing parameters, and then in the drop-down menu of presets, select the item " New set parameters for the tool". Enter the name of your set and click yes. Your set will appear in the list of presets and you can use it in the future.

Do not forget that in addition to the linear dimensions of the image, when cropping, you can set a different density of points. If you leave the field empty, the density will not be attracted.

5 In the image and likeness

If you want to crop several images to the same size in the image and likeness of the first one, select the reference image and click the "Image" button on the property bar. Cropping options will be set according to the parameters of this image. Now you can crop the rest of the pictures to the same size with the same proportions.

Attention!

If cropping is not working properly, press Esc to exit the tool and click the Clear button to reset the settings.

The next time you crop an image, remember that this tool represents a lot of interesting options work with him.