Adobe Photoshop
When you’re trying to crop an image close to the edge of the document in Adobe Photoshop, you may notice that the crop tool always wants to “snap” to the edge of the document, or close to a layer object edge. This is a result of Photoshop’s Snap To feature, which normally is quite handy!
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Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop CS6 brought with it a new cropping method that has left some users frustrated, and others wishing they could tweak it a bit. Fortunately, Adobe has built-in the ability to do both.
With the Crop Tool active (hit the C key to activate it), click the little gear icon in the toolbar stretching across the top of your Photoshop window.
In the pop-up menu, you can tick the Use Classic Mode checkbox to return the cropping method to the way it was before CS6. If you like the new cropping method, as I do, you can also toggle the Auto Centering and Cropped are viewing. In addition, you can adjust the Cropping Shield (the dark area that you’re cropping out of your image).
Adobe Photoshop
After scanning line art, and sometimes after working with illustrations, you’re left with unwanted white space around your subject matter. Accurately cropping it out can be tedious and timeconsuming, or you can use Image>Trim in Photoshop. The Trim dialog box offers a few handy settings you can customize. As long as the area you want to remove is either transparent or a solid color, Trim will instantly crop the canvas down to exactly where the illustration begins.