How to RESIZE & CROP Images in Photoshop CC

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Let's take a look at how to crop and
resize images in Photoshop CC

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I have my artwork open here. And I'm
going to go to the crop tool

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which is right here and click on it.

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You can crop in two ways...

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one is you can draw a box for your crop using the crop tool

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I'll cancel this crop by clicking on undo

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Or you can just start
dragging the corner

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of these corner points here to create your
crop

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you can drag the image around to
reposition it within the crop

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and if you want a specific crop size,
which you probably are going to want most of the time

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you'll want to change this setting from Ratio to Width x Height x Resolution

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And for the width, let's say we want 10 inches

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I'll type "10 IN" and hit the Enter key

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And then type "8 IN" and then hit the Enter key

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And we'll choose 300 dpi/ppi for the resolution

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So now we have a crop that is 10 inches
by 8 inches which is a standard frame size

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Now let's move our image so it fills that space

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these lines that you see here are known as the "Rule
Of Thirds Grid"

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these help you compose the piece. You can
put areas of interest within the squares,

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or along these lines or at the intersecting
points where these lines intersect each other

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For instance, I will frame the head
in this square, the body in this square, and so on

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When you're ready to go ahead
and crop, click on the check box

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and that will crop the image.
If you're not happy with that crop, you can use CTRL+Z

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to do an Undo and you can start over with a different crop

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Now once you have this set to 8x10,
it is always going to stay locked in av 8x10 ratio.

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So if you want to unlock
it, you have to go ahead and click the clear button

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and that will clear the settings
and put it back to its default

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The reason for cropping to 8x10 is because you may want to print this

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on an 8x10 piece of paper and put it in an 8x10 inch frame

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If you want to print it for a different frame size, you would want to
crop your image to that particular frame size

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So generally speaking, you don't want to
just crop things visually

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you want to crop at a specific frame size
or a specific print size

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There's an option
here for Delete Cropped Pixels if you just want to erase all of
this cropped area.

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If you're not worried about saving it, go ahead and leave Delete Cropped Pixels checked.

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However, if
you're not sure that you want to throw away the background yet

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or if you may want to change this crop, go
ahead and uncheck Delete Cropped Pixels

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That will crop the image, but all of that cropped area will still actually be recoverable

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So if you want to go back and change
your crop again

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like so

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you have access to that full area again

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Now what if you want to straighten an image
while you crop it?

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What you'll want to do is select the Crop
Tool, click on the Straighten icon here

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and then drag a line along your
horizon

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you can also do this along a vertical line

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And that will automatically straighten your image and bring up a crop box

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And then you can go
ahead and adjust the crop.

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So that's cropping. But what if you want
to resize an image manually?

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Go to Image > Image Size

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This is going to show you a preview
of the image

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and you can make the image larger or
smaller.

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Currently, I'm measuring the image in pixels

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so if I want to, I can change this from
pixels to inches

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So let's say I want to make the image smaller. Let's
change the height to 4 and see what happens

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Now it's going to make sure that this is
four inches

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and that the image stays in proportion because I
have this lock enabled

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if I uncheck this lock, I can change
the proportion

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and then change the image to 4x6.

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You can see that's gonna
squish the image when I do that

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So what you
would want to do is go back and crop it to 4x6 not resize it to 4x6

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Most of the time you won't want to
stretch the image, so you'll want to keep this lock enabled

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So let's say 4x5

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We can also change the resolution. If
we're going to put this on the web,

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you wouldn't want the resolution to be so
high.

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You would want a resolution to be 72 for the web. For printing, we want to print at 300

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Let's go ahead and look at the re-sampling options here.

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If you're making the image smaller, you'll want change it to Reduction.

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If you're making the image bigger, you want to change it to Enlargement

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Most the time you should avoid enlarging images because it can make the image blurry and blocky

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If you do enlarge, make sure you choose Preserve Details

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And you can choose to reduce the Noise a little bit which will make it a little less blocky

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I will go ahead and choose Reduction since I'm making the image smaller

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and click OK

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And now we've shrunk the image down a bit

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Now what if we want to make the canvas
bigger without resizing the image?

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Let's click on Image > Canvas Size

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And if you choose an origin point, it's
going to expand the canvas from that location.

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Center, top, bottom and so on.
Let's choose from the center

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Let's expand the canvas. Let's make it 10
inches wide by 8 inches tall

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Click OK

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Now if we zoom out, you can see that we've expanded the canvas without enlarging the image

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Now let's take a look at one more way to crop

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We can also crop with a
mask

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So let's say we're going to make a custom crop here

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I'm going to use the
Polygonal Lasso Tool

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Next, I'm going to cut out a shape
around the area I want to cut out

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And then I will create a layer mask
by clicking on the layer mask icon

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What that does is that creates a nice
custom crop around the image

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And then since this is
a mask,

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we can always just delete that layer mask if we don't
want to keep that crop

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Now when you create a layer mask, you're
going to be in Mask Mode until you exit out of it

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So to exit out of mask mode, you click to
the left onto little thumbnail for your layer

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And then you can go ahead and continue
working in Photoshop as you would normally

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If you want to work on the mask
again you have to click back on the mask

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Let's take a look at how to resize the
image a little bit.

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If you press the Control+T on your keyboard,

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or you go to Edit > Free Transform

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you'll enable Free Transform mode. If you drag on one of the corner points,

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you can resize your image

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Now generally speaking, it's best to avoid enlarging your image this way

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because it is going to get a little blurry and blocky

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But you can resize it a
little bit without too much trouble

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So there are some different
ways to crop and resize your artwork

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and your images using Photoshop CC

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