How to use the Crop tool in Adobe Photoshop.

The Crop tool lets you cut your entire canvas down to size, hiding what you don’t want to show. The Slice tool helps you break your piece down into multiple images for easier editing or exporting to other applications. 

You can use the Crop tool to do more than just reduce the size of an image — you can also rotate and straighten out diagonal horizons. Use the Perspective Crop tool to warp and shift your canvas along specific vantage points for realistic or wild effects. 

Sometimes you need more breathing room, and the Crop tool has you covered. Grow the size of a canvas just by dragging the crop bounds outward, and use Content-Aware Fill to fill in the gaps with a background color.

When you uncheck the Delete Cropped Pixels tool option, none of your cropping destroys information, so you can move and change various layers without harming existing work.

Not everything is wanted in a photograph, and by using clever cropping, you can remove the bits you don’t want, bringing your focal point front and center.

Sometimes you don’t quite capture that sunset as evenly as you want. Use the Crop tool to straighten out your horizons.

Sometimes you need a little extra breathing room in your canvas. With the Crop tool, you can grow the edges of your canvas and fill the new space with a solid color to create a frame effect, like a Polaroid. 

Slightly tilted lines can be extra noticeable in pictures of buildings. With the Crop tool, you can make precise adjustments so the lines of houses and other structures are just right.