Hey there in this cropping video, we're going to crop to a specific size. Let's say we've got a photo frame and it needs to be an exact size or say it's for a magazine and it needs to be a four or US letter. So we're going to show you how to do that. Get into the perfect dimensions. But what we're also going to do is I'm going to show you how to no background there no background. They're ready. Magic up more background. Cool. Huh? Let's do all of that now in Photoshop to get started. Open up cropping 02 from our exercise files. Now we wanna get this into say a photo frame or into the U. S. Letter document and a four document something. It's a really specific size. Okay, I'm going to show you how to do that now in Photoshop. I'm just saying, you know, I like we did with the postcard earlier I find it's easier to go too far and you create the size that you want. Okay, so let's say it's 5x7. Okay, create that document in here and then just drag this image into it so my move tool, drag, dr...

ag, drag, move it in so it has to be rotated around and I can see it's not quite big enough so I'm gonna have to resize it. Okay using my transform tool I find this is an easier process. Okay, don't worry if you don't like that way, let's do it the official way. Okay so I've got this image open. I'm gonna grab my crop tool and at the top here instead of ratio, we're going to go to, we're going to pick one of the default. Okay, this one here is a real traditional kind of photo frame size five inches by seven by default. It's going this way so I want to flip these across and you can see it just needs to be trimmed a little bit either side when you're ready. Return and there you go. It's cropped to those specific dimensions. I'm going to go to edit step backwards just so you know, up here we've picked seven by five. But let's say you've got a different photo frame or anything else right? It is six by four. You can just type it in there. Just type them in, flip them around. Okay, it's up to you and you can type instead of one of these default ones, you can go to the top here and go to width, height and resolution to say actually I want this to be, I'm said two centimeters in my preferences because I'm based in europe. You can change yours and your preferences two inches but let's say I want mine to be 2 9, 7 mm. Okay bye to millimeters. I'm gonna flip mine around. That's kind of an A four size. So you don't find that kind of preset in here. You can just go and type it the only thing you need to be careful of, let's say we're on five by seven and you finish it and you love it and you move it around, you're like, that's perfect. Return turn my keyboard and then later on you just working on a different document and you're just gonna run into this is gonna be a gotcha. Is that you're like, okay, I'm just gonna go. You know, I'm gonna grab my cropping tool, I'm just going to kind of stretch this out and you're like, hey, just, you know, it's kind of locked in this resolution. So if you leave it like that, it's gonna remember it and it might be months before you get back into the cropping tool and that's where I get emails like dan, My cropping tool doesn't work and it's just gonna go back to this top here and go to a ratio, not ratio, go to with heightened resolution and go to clear and now. Okay, I've got that kind of like full control. Again, I'm going to escape. I'm going to close that one down. That's not what I wanted to do. What I want to show you now is some amazing magic. I hinted it at the beginning, we magic up background and that's super useful. So I'm gonna edit, step backwards to this thing here. Let's say, I'm not using it kind of in this traditional kind of landscape since I want it for something a little bit more social media re, I'm gonna zoom out a little bit, let's say, I need like a banner out. I need to be like, you know, it's the hitter in my facebook page or it's a leaderboard in a banner ad that I'm making for our website or that big slider hero box that appears on lots of home pages or websites, whatever it is used anymore background. Right? Maybe not that much. And so when I do this, it's just going to leave a big gap there, right hand return. Got a big gap unless you ready. So I'm gonna click it again. I've got o to open, I've got my crop tool. I'm just gonna turn that magic button on. This is the magic and drag it out a bit. Got a big gap. But now when I hit return, you ready, holy moly magic just made more beach in sky. Cool. Huh? I love that thing. Remember to turn it off when you're finished with it if you don't want it to do it anymore. But yeah, it's just super helpful. Now a little, I guess asterix here for you is that I picked a really good example for this to impress you and me and everybody. And so it doesn't work on all images. Okay. I picked this one mainly because it has a consistent background. There's a lot of background. Okay, if this originally started like this without all of this background. Okay. And it was all of this, it's gonna look horrible. Let's give it an example of something that kind of half works. So let's go and file open. Let's go to cropping three. So this one here, we want to do the same thing. I'm gonna zoom out a little bit. I need some extra width. Okay. So I need to go this way. Okay. And I need some with that way as well. So I'm going to go both ways. Okay, perfect. Get ready, steady enter and wait for your computer And you can see average so small changes like this, which is just a little baby one. Okay. Return mm hmm, fungible. Okay. There's some noticeable, but it depends what it's for. If this is the front cover of your magazine, no way Jose. But if this is a meme that you're making, then probably it'll work enough later on in this course will show you different techniques to tidy up some of these things. But that'll be in the retouching part in a little bit later on. So for some images, it's magic. And some images I find probably about Maybe 40% of images. Maybe even 30%. Okay. Actually work without a hitch. The rest of them need some retouching and lots of them just don't work. It's just the wrong kind of format, but regardless, it's a super cool little extra trick. Okay. Just remember content aware that gang that is the end of this video. Let's get into this some more cropping. You thought there was only a little bit of dropping, but there's a good few videos with dropping. Trust me, they're all useful. Let's jump into another one now.

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How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

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27. How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

Lessons

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

Layers - Quiz

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

Shapes - Quiz

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

Text - Quiz

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Selecting Hair

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

Selection & Masking - Quiz

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project – Oil Painting

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

Class exercise - Halftone

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

Filters - Quiz

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

Class Project - Peeling Sky

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Retouching

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

Retouching

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Duotones

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect