Cropping Little Dan

Instructions appear below.

This is the technique you will use to straighten your photos after scanning. Memorize it.

  1. Save the crooked picture to your desktop (right-click the image, click Save Image.) Open it in Photoshop.
  2. Choose the crop tool. (Press C to select the Crop tool, or click and hold on the Marquee tool in the Toolbox. When the flyout menu appears, click the Crop tool.)
  3. Click and drag in the image
  4. If you place the mouse pointer outside the crop marquee, Rotate crop marks will appear. Click and drag the rounded handles to rotate the crop marquee until one side alligns with an edge of the photograph.
  5. Resize the crop marquee with the handles.
  6. When the outline fits the image, press Enter.
Using Photoshop 5, you can add canvas around an image using the Crop tool.
  1. Click and drag the crop marquee around the picture.
  2. Drag the picture frame to enlarge it, so that there is grey space around the image.
  3. Resize the Crop marquee by dragging the handles outward. This will enlarge the area around your picture.
  4. When the marquee is the right size, press enter. The area you added will be filled with your background color.
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