The crop tool seems simple enough right? Yeah, I thought so too. No need to fret though because CMmentor and Photoshop mastermind Lisa Harrison is here to reveal all the secrets of the crop tool in Photoshop CS6. She has created an eye opening video to show all of you the ins and outs and dirty little secrets that you didn’t know about the crop tool!
the crop tool exposed
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Thank you Lisa for sharing with us! Have you upgraded to CS6 yet? Tell us in the comments why you have or have not upgraded yet!
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As CM’s Photoshop expert, it’s only fitting that Lisa is the instructor for the Lighting 101: Intro to Natural Light, Processing 101: Photoshop Fundamentals for Photographers, and Processing 201: Intermediate Photoshop for Photographers workshops. Speaking of her photography journey, Lisa says, “when my son was born I became hooked on photography. I wanted to capture everything I could. When he napped, I read about photography and taught myself photoshop. My husband bought me my first DSLR in 2004 and the rest is history.” With her Canon 5d mark III and various lenses, mostly primes, she enjoys lifestyle photography with bright clean processing and natural skin tones but equally loves black and whites. Living in Vermont with her husband and two children, Lisa loves skiing and boating. Family, friends, Starbucks, Zumba, her camera and computer are among her list of must haves.
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I have CS5 and I have been thinking about upgrading to CS6 but after seeing this video I have a question about the crop tool. I see that whenever you rotate the photo, the crop tool keeps all of the photo inside of the tool. What happens in situations where you want to crop but in order to avoid chopping fingers (or etc) you want to add space outside of the frame and then just clone it in after the crop? Is that possible? I do this a lot when cropping and I would hate not to be able to do so.
Hi Mayra. You can use the crop tool just as you did in CS5 by checking "delete cropped pixels". If you're talking about dragging the crop outside of the photo to make the canvas bigger, you can still do that :)
I don't have CS6 (or any version of ps), I use lightroom and paintshop pro. But I learned something about LR! I didn't know about the crop overlay grids and the auto hide. Thank you! :)
Oh I knew I shouldn't have watched this about CS6…I keep telling myself I'm "fine" with CS5. But the overlays for crop is cool and I hear the blur filters in there are great….
Thanks Lisa for a great tutorial (and temptation!)
I think I need lightroom now! I use PS, but wow, I need this! THanks for sharing!
This is actually with PS CS6 Kristi :)
Thanks! It never occurred to me to crop and resize for web all in one… and the new features are cool too!
Wow— another wonderful addition to the photoshop arsenal! You are amazing Lisa :)
This also makes me want to upgrade to CS6! Very informative – thank you :)
This makes me want to upgrade to CS6 now, but I just upgraded to LR4, so this is on my wish list. Thank you for this amazing tutorial Lisa!
Don't have PS, but just realized that I can move part of an image (lowering a kite in the sky) in LR4 using the spot removal tool. Who would have thought?
Great information, Lisa!! Thanks! I usually cropped in LR, but like all the features in PS6! Thanks for the video!!
Thank you for this! Very helpful!
thanks so much Lisa!
Great post!
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