I mentioned earlier that I’m teaching an upcoming Photoshop course at work. I’m not an expert but I can make my way around the tool. I’m sharing my class in pieces. This post is about saving your cropping and resizing your images.
Cropping
To crop an image, select the Crop Tool from your toolbar. It looks like 
. Place your cursor on your image at where you would like to begin your crop. Left click your mouse drag your mouse so a dotted line appears where you would like to crop the image.
After you release your mouse, a box will appear on the image with the handles on your crop lines allowing you to change the size of your crop.
Select the handles and size your crop accordingly. When you have your crop marks as you want then, hit Enter.
Resizing
You can resize an image using the menus in Photoshop. Simply go to Image … Image Size … Type in the size you would like for your new image … OK.
In the drop-down menus you have the option to size your image by pixels, percentage inches, centimeters, etc. Work with whichever ones makes the most sense to you.
In nearly all occasions you will want to leave the “Constrain Proportions” box checked. This means that Photoshop will keep your image proportional to the original image.
Want to start from the beginning? View class 1, which reviews the Photoshop toolbar. View Class 2, which reviews pictures for print versus web.
As always, see something you disagree with or think is just plain wrong? Tell me! Seriously – I want to know.
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