Crop Photo Using Photoshop

Introduction:

Today you’re going to learn how to crop photo’s using Photoshop. There’s more than one way to go about cropping in Photoshop, so I’ll cover the two most popular and easy methods. We’ll be using a stock photo from everystockphoto.com which is royalty free. You can use the same photo as me while you follow along, or practice on one of your own.

Method One, Use Photoshop’s Crop Tool:

Open your image in Photoshop and Press C to select the Crop Tool. Now just click somewhere in the photo and drag out a rectangle or square. You’ll notice the part you’ve selected is still bright, whereas everything else is shaded. The shaded area will be cropped.
You can change the size and shape of the area to be cropped by dragging the corners and sides. Notice the little squares on each corner and all four sides? Those squares are where you drag from. You can also rotate the cropped area by moving your cursor to any of the four corners and then moving it slightly away from the edge of the corner. When your cursor changes to a little curved arrow shape, just left click and rotate the image by dragging left, right, up, or down.
Press enter when you’re happy with your selection, to finish cropping. If you decide you don’t want to crop,  just press escape to cancel. Here’s my finished image below.

Method 2, Use Photoshop’s Marquee Tool:

This method of cropping photos using Photoshop is very similar to method 1, although it doesn’t give you quite as much control.

Open your image in Photoshop and press M to select the Marquee Tool, make sure it’s the square Marquee and not the round one. If you have the round Marquee Tool selected, hold shift and press M again to switch it.

Now, drag a selection around the area you wish to crop. Once you’ve selected an area you’re happy with, click Image from the top menu and then click “crop” from the drop down. It’s that simple!

Hopefully you’re happy with your results.