Cropping an Image

If an image is too large or contains a lot of extra space, you can crop the image to a smaller size.  Cropping is a good way to remove excess white space or background in an image.

To Crop an Image

  1. Use one of the selection tools to select the portion of the image you wish to keep.   The most commonly used selection tool for this purpose is the Marquee tool  PBipmarquee.gif (908 bytes).  The Marquee Tool changes the cursor to display a crosshair with which you can then draw a box around the area of the image you want to select.  The other selection tools are the Magic Wand  PBipmagicwand.gif (917 bytes), Lasso  PBiplasso.gif (917 bytes), and the Find Color tool  PBipfindcolor.gif (917 bytes).  For more information, please see the Image Processing tools and plugins topic.

  2. The selection is identified by a border of black and white dashes. 

  3. Select Crop from the Image menu.  The image area outside the selection is removed from the image and the image size is shrunk to the selected portion. 

 


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