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The Crop Tools in Depth When you finalize the crop, the resulting image will be

When the Crop tool is selected, the Options bar can be used to define a number of settings related to the cropped area.
PHOTOSHOP FOUNDATIONS do not define the actual size of the resulting crop, only the resized to be 9  9, regardless of the actual size of the
The left menu includes a number of
common aspect ratios as presets. If
you choose one of these options, the
crop marquee. This presents a problem if you remember the
principles of resolution.
crop marquee is constrained to the
aspect ratio defined in the preset. It’s
Enlarging a 3  3 area (for example) to 9  9 means
important to note that these presets
the application needs to create enough pixels to fill in the
6 extra inches — at 300 ppi, Photoshop needs to create
aspect ratio.
Although Photoshop can slightly enlarge images with
You can also choose the Size and Resolution option to
reasonable success, such a significant amount of new data
define custom settings for the result of a crop. For example,
if you define the width and height of a crop area as 9  9 (“interpolate”) more than 1800 pixels per linear inch.
will not result in good quality. As a general rule, you should
at 300 ppi, when you click and drag to draw, the crop area avoid enlarging raster images, and certainly no more than
will be restricted to the same proportions defined in the about 10%.
Width and Height fields (in this example, 1:1).
The crop area is constrained The resulting cropped image is the
to the aspect ratio of the actual size defined in the Crop
defined width and height. Image Size & Resolution dialog box.

You can use the View menu to show a variety of overlays You can also click the Set Additional Crop Options
within the crop area; these follow basic button to access a variety of
design principles, such as the Rule of crop-related choices.
Thirds and the Golden Spiral.
• If you check the Use Classic
You can also use the commands in this Mode option, the crop
menu to turn the overlay on or off. If marquee reverts to the same
you choose Auto Show Overlay, the selected overlay only appearance and behavior as
appears when you drag the marquee handles or click inside in previous versions of Photoshop.
the marquee area to move the image inside the crop area. • When Auto Center Preview is checked, the crop area
will always be centered inthe document window; the
image dynamically moves in the document window as
you resize the crop area.
• When Show Cropped Area is checked, the area
outside the crop marquee remains visible in the
document window until you finalize the crop.
• When Enable Crop Shield is checked, areas outside
the crop marquee are partially obscured by a semi-
transparent solid color. You can use the related options
to change the color and opacity of the shielded area.

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