With Photoshop open, click on File heading at the top left of the menu bar and select Open. You will be directed to the most recent location of images or folders last used to open a file. Navigate to the folder location or image you wish to open. If files are arranged in a list format, you can change to thumbnail view to see a mini version of each image. Make your selection and click on the Open button.
The main reason for this lesson to be understood is simply on a practical level. There are tons of images we take where we say, "oh, I wish that person wasn't in the picture." Or there's a plane in the sky behind the couple you had photographed... there are plenty of reasons for cropping an image into a better image.
So here we go... let's get the digital scissors out!
Adobe® Photoshop Class #8
So far, we have been discussing how to color correct or convert images. Now we will move to actually changing the way an image is proportioned. This is one of the other Root lessons necessary for most everyone to understand.
Like the last lessons, we still need to recap the beginning portions...
As you can see from the difference between the original and cropped version of the sample image, the marquee tool and Crop function are simple ways to improve how your pictures finish out. There are always creative methods to improve your images, but simply looking at them to discover what should be there and what is not needed can be important to your overall presentation, especially if they are being framed.
Make sure you save this new version of your original as a different name. I often use the work CROP in my naming criteria. This tells me exactly the difference between the new and the original versions.
See you in the next lesson...
