You can move the selection outline as well by clicking anywhere inside of the selection and dragging it to a new location. Holding the Shift key down forces the width-to-height aspect ratio of the selection to remain the same as you drag, which is what allows us to maintain the same aspect ratio as the original photo. To resize the selection, hold down your Shift key, then click on any of the handles (the little squares) in the corners of the selection and drag the corner inward. In this case, we want to resize the selection outline and make it smaller until it surrounds only the part of the photo that we want to keep, allowing us to crop away everything else.
Step 3: Resize The SelectionĪs its name implies, Photoshop's Transform Selection command allows us to make changes to the selection outline itself without affecting anything inside of the selection. I want to crop the image more closely around the woman's face and the flowers she's holding, but I want the final result to maintain the same aspect ratio as the original: That may be great, but what if you don't want to change the aspect ratio of the photo? What if you want to crop the image while keeping the width-to-height ratio the same as the original? And what if you're not sure what the original aspect ratio actually is? You could open the Image Size dialog box to find out the width and height of the image and then do the math, but there's an even easier way thanks to a rarely used but very useful command in Photoshop called Transform Selection, which is what we're going to be looking at in this tutorial. One of the great things about the Crop Tool is that you can easily crop your photos to common photo sizes like 4圆, 5x7 or 8x10 simply by entering the width and height values into the Options Bar before dragging out your cropping border, or by selecting a preset crop size from the Preset picker. It's so common that Photoshop comes with a tool designed specifically for cropping photos, conveniently named the Crop Tool.
Cropping images is by far one of the most common, every day uses for Photoshop.
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