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The Crop Tools in Depth (continued)
When the Crop tool is selected, you can
PHOTOSHOP FOUNDATIONS what should be a straight line in the resulting
click the Straighten button in the Options bar
and then draw a line in the image to define
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.

The image is rotated behind the crop
Click the Straighten button, then draw
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 The Perspective Crop tool (nested under the Crop tool)
to effectively enlarge the canvas. Using the default settings, can be used to draw a non-rectangular crop area. To define
the new areas outside the original canvas size become the area you want to keep, simply click to place the four
transparent on regular layers, or are filled with the defined corners of the area, then drag the corners in any direction as
background color on the locked Background layer. necessary. When you finalize the crop, the image inside the
crop area is straightened to a front-on viewing angle. You
If you check the Content-Aware Crop option in the should use this option with care, however, because it can
Options bar, Photoshop generates new pixels based on the badly distort an image.
existing image, filling the new pixels with content that better
matches the previous image edges. In the following example, we used apparent lines in the
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. (Be careful using this tool, however, as it can
result in obvious distortion. )

Drag the crop area handles larger than the existing image to
enlarge the canvas.

New areas on the Background layer are filled with the defined
background color.

New areas on the Background layer are filled with content
generated to better match the existing image pixels.

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