7/10/2023 0 Comments Cs6 ruler toolYou have your built in presets or you can set and create new sizes that you use a lot. We now have the ability to choose an aspect ratio to constrain the Crop Tool to! This means we can tell the Crop Tool to crop to an 8×10 size, or a 5×7 size without having to get the Rectangular Marquee Tool out and setting a fixed selection etc… etc… This is just great. You can now see exactly where those edges are. One of the other great features of this new Crop Tool is the ability to rotate the crop and have it resize when it hit the edges instead of simply running into the canvas area around your document. We’re going to leave “classic” ticked on. This will revert the tool to behave like it did in previous version of Photoshop. ![]() I’m going to drag out a crop over this new image and once you’ve dragged out your crop you can use the hotkey (P) to flip the Crop Tool back to the “classic” mode. Let’s use another image and take a look at a couple of the other new features of this tool! You can simply tap the hotkey (O) to cycle through all the grid overlays you now have.Īdjust your crop and hit the little “check” icon to commit the change. Oftentimes when cropping you want to check the straightness of lines or angles (or even check on spiraling objects i.e. Don’t commit the change yet! This brings us to the next point…Īlso now shared between Photoshop and Lightroom are the cool grid overlays for the Crop Tool. I’m going to drag a line down the side of the Empire State Building and the Crop Tool will do the rest. You can straighten along horizontal or vertical lines. This is pretty much the Ruler Tool’s “Straighten” option, but built in with Crop which will potentially allow up to straighten and crop in one fell swoop without even deleting the cropped pixels! ![]() I’m going to clear this crop that I’m playing with by hitting the little “clear” icon in the Tool Options Bar. You are also able to drag the image so the crop falls off the image and get a live preview as that happens. Also, this tool now works like it does over in Lightroom! You move the image underneath the crop instead of dragging the crop around “on top” of the image. When you drag out a new crop selection Photoshop will keep the cropped part of the image in the center of your screen as you move the crop. It contains all kinds of sweet features that I’ll be referring to through the tutorial. When this tool appears, make sure you check out the Tool Options Bar. By default the Crop Tool will be set to crop your entire image (It will not be cutting away any part of you image). The hotkey to select the Crop Tool is (C). ![]() Outside of Photoshop’s huge upgrade in the speed department (It’s fast!), this tool is probably my favorite upgrade! Step 1: ![]() Photoshop CS6 will address the couple things that I really wanted to see changed in the Crop Tool. I used the Crop Tool every single day, whether is was cutting screenshots, cropping photographs for print, cropping for the web, or just to give clients additional crop options, this tool is one that I use a whole lot. Introduction to the New Crop Tool – Photoshop CS6 Betaįor any photographer or blogger who made use of Photoshop’s awesome Crop Tool you will be delightfully surprised with the sweeping changes that Adobe has made to this awesome little tool.
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