However, I really recom- mend giving this new way a try-it takes a little getting used to, but once you do, you’ll really find it useful. Step Four: If you decide you want to return to the old way of rotating your crop (where the border rotates, rather than your image), click on the Set Additional Crop Options icon (it looks like a gear) in the Options Bar and turn on the Use Classic Mode checkbox (also known as “old school” or “ancient cropping” by today’s hip- ster croppers), and then you’re back to the old method. A little pop-up now appears, too, with the angle of rotation (it’s shown circled here in red). One big thing that has changed in how this works in Photoshop CS6 is that now the image actually rotates (rather than the border), which makes the process much easier (especially when you’re trying to straighten a horizon line or a building). Just click, hold, and drag up (or down) and the cropping border will rotate in the direction you choose. When you do this, the cur- sor will change into a double-headed arrow. The Adobe Photoshop CS6 Book for Digital Photographers Step Three: While you have the cropping border in place, if you need to rotate your photo, just move your cursor anywhere outside the border. There arealso three overlay options in the menu:Always Show Overlay (once you startcropping, it’s visible even when you’renot cropping), Never Show Overlay, andAuto Show Overlay (my favorite-it onlyappears when you’re actually cropping).122 Chapter 5 How to Resize and Crop Photos
If you see adifferent overlay, just click on the Viewpop-up menu in the Options Bar andyou’ll see a list of the different overlaysyou can choose (if you’re not sure whichone you want, you can cycle throughthem by pressing the letter O).
Also, you can repositionyour image within the border by clicking-and-dragging on it.Step Two:The Rule of Thirds overlay grid that yousee in Step One doesn’t appear overyour photo until you actually drag oneof the cropping handles. If you want to keep theimage proportions the same in your crop(I usually do), just press-and-hold theShift key while you drag any of the crop-ping handles. Now, just grab one of the cor-ner or side handles and start dragginginward to start cropping (as seen here)and it crops in toward the center of theimage (the area to be cropped away willappear dimmed). If you’re a Lightroom user, you’ll be right at home with this new cropping, because it works more like Lightroom’s cropping.Step One: SCOTT KELBYPress the letter C to get the Crop tooland you instantly see the first improve-ment over previous versions of the tool:you don’t have to drag the croppingborder out over your photo-it’s auto-matically added around your image foryou (yay!). Here, we’ll cover the basic garden-variety cropping (and the new way of cropping in CS6), but since there are many different ways to crop a photo in Photoshop (and different reasons why you’d use one over another), we’ll cover them all. The Adobe Photoshop CS6 Book for Digital PhotographersBasic Cropping Adobe completely overhauled cropping in Photoshop CS6, and it’s a big improve- for Photos ment (it was long overdue, since aside from a few minor enhancements, cropping has been essentially unchanged since Photoshop 1.0). Normally, this many minutesto be 100% completely numb to hearing things like the of menu commands set to music would be more like,F-bomb, the S-missile, and the B-grenade (which means I dunno, $1.29 or so. I imagine, at this point, that person has commands set to music.