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The Crop Tools in Depth (continued)

When the Crop tool is selected, you can
click the Straighten button in the Options
bar, and then draw a line in the image to
define what should be a straight line in the
resulting image. The image behind the crop
marquee rotates to show what will remain in
the cropped canvas. The line you drew is
adjusted to be perfectly horizontal or vertical.

Click the Straighten button, then draw The image is rotated behind the crop
a line representing what you want to marquee to be “straight” based on
be “straight” in the cropped image. the line you drew.

You can draw a crop area larger than the existing canvas to The Perspective Crop tool (nested under the Crop tool)
effectively enlarge the canvas. can be used to draw a non-rectangular crop area. To define
the area you want to keep, simply click to place the four
Using the default settings, new areas outside the original corners of the area, then drag the corners in any direction as
canvas size become transparent on regular layers, or filled necessary. When you finalize the crop, the image inside the
with the background color on the locked Background layer. crop area is straightened to a front-on viewing angle. You
should use this option with care, however, because it can
If you check the Content-Aware option in the Options bar, badly distort an image.
Photoshop generates new pixels based on the existing image,
filling the new pixels with content that better matches the In the following example, we used apparent lines in the
previous image edges. photograph to draw the perspective crop marquee.
After finalizing the crop, the building appears to be straight,
rather than the original viewing angle at which it was
photographed.

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