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[00:00:00.0] Very often in Photoshop, you're going to want to crop away portions of an image that you don't want to use. [00:00:05.0] So select the Crop tool from this tool palette right here, and that's this tool right here. [00:00:13.0] Click and drag diagonally around the area that you want to keep, [00:00:18.0] and Photoshop will default to shielding the cropped area with this dark color which is black at 75% opacity. [00:00:17.0] You can change the color if you wish to any other color and opacity for that matter. [00:00:33.0] But for most things this is fine. [00:00:35.0] If this is exactly what you want, you can commit to the crop by hitting the Enter key or clicking on this check box. [00:00:42.0] I am going to undo that, so I can show you some more features of the crop tool. [00:00:50.0] If you wish, you could type in a precise resolution and width and height dimensions that you want to crop tool to follow. [00:01:02.0] I am going to type in 5 inches wide but 4 inches tall. And I will leave the resolution empty, [00:01:10.0] so it does not resize my picture. [00:01:13.0] Now when I use the Crop tool, [00:01:15.0] notice that I am constrained to this exact 4 X 5 inch shape. [00:01:22.0] Again if you want to commit to that, hit the Enter key or click the checkbox. [00:01:35.0] If you don't, if you want to get back to where you started, click the 'X', and it brings your picture back un-cropped. [00:01:41.0] If you want to use the exact dimensions and resolution of the original image, [00:01:48.0] click Front Image. And what happens is that [00:01:51.0] that information, the width and height of my original image and resolution is dropped right into these boxes. [00:02:00.0] And now, notice when I use the Crop tool I get the same effect of having the Crop tool be constrained. [00:02:05.0] But if I committed to this, it would actually resize or interpolate my picture. [00:02:12.0] I will undo that, and I'll click clear. [00:02:18.0] If there are any values in here and you want your Crop tool just to work normally [00:02:23.0] so that it is not constrained, make sure that there are no values in here. [00:02:27.0] You can do that by hitting the Clear button or moving into each box and selecting the data and deleting it. [00:02:34.0] I want to show you another great feature with the Crop tool and that's the ability to change perspective. [00:02:41.0] And in this case you can see that my picture of these buildings, [00:02:45.0] which were shot with the wide angle lens near the ground floor, [00:02:50.0] has created this unfortunate falling backwards of the buildings effect. [00:02:55.0] I need to compensate for that by using the perspective feature of the crop tool. [00:03:00.0] So I'm going to pull out the crop tool, and this time I am going to enable the Perspective feature. [00:03:11.0] And what this does is it allows me to move the corner points independently. [00:03:16.0] I am going to move this corner point till this line is parallel to the building's edge. [00:03:25.0] So that looks pretty good. [00:03:28.0] I might move it back just a bit, and I will do the same over here. [00:03:33.0] I'll get this corner point and make it parallel. [00:03:37.0] And it's actually it is parallel because it's right on the edge, but I want to pull it out a bit. [00:03:46.0] Now when I enable this crop to take place, it should correct for my bad perspective. [00:04:01.0] And it looks like I have done something wrong. [00:04:04.0] I need to reposition my center point, and you can see that it actually did correct the bad perspective of my buildings. [00:04:17.0] So that's enabling the Perspective feature of the Crop tool. [00:04:21.0] [00:04:22.0]