Cropping images

Let's say for this example you want to take the fire extinguisher in this photo and have it cropped so it's separated. Also in this example you wanted it to be a square image in the end. I took this photo on my phone and emailed it to myself to get it on the computer.

Opening up Photoshop will present you with some options to open recent files. Choose Open and find the photo you are needing to edit.

Press the letter C on the keyboard to enter crop mode.

Or you can press the button on the left menu:

Adjust the box height and width and position:

Now take a look at the top at these options:

the square: 1:1 will give you the ratio of a square.

If you click the check-mark now or hit enter on the keyboard, it finish cropping the image into the square.

Resize:

Once you have the photo cropped, what I like to do is see what size it is. You can to into Image / view size to see:

The image started out to be 4656px by 3492px which is quite large. If I wanted to put this on a website, I would probably resize this to around 1024x768 or something around there. I just change one value and it automatically adjusts the other (height/witdth) to be the same ratio. Just make sure its not something ridiculously large. If it's for Print (like a yearbook, a larger image is probably fine, but if you're putting an image on a website you'll probably want to keep it under 2,000px or so roughly. it depends I guess. For example if you had a nice expensive DSLR camera, your image might be 100 times bigger than it needs to be, so it takes awhile to load on the page.

After I cropped the image to just have the fire extinguisher, it turned out to be: 964px by 964px.

CNTRL+1, Press and hold the Control key on the keyboard while pressing the number 1 button to view the image at actual size (not zoomed out or zoomed in).

Save your image:

In photoshop, if you save, it's going to want to save it as a photoshop file type.

IF you want to save the image to put on the web or emails, etc., choose Export / Quick Export as PNG

and then you should be ready to go to put this on the web.

If you are done with Photoshop, I would suggest saving and closing it since it takes up a lot of computer memory to run, so it may slow down your computer if you try to continue the day with this open in the background all day.

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