TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Beginner

4 min

How to crop a photo

Crop and straighten your photos in a few quick steps.

What you’ll need
Practice in the app

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What you learned

Start your crop

Select the Crop tool to create a crop boundary. The boundary identifies what to crop away and what to keep.

Adjust the crop boundary

Define your crop by dragging the edges or corners of the crop boundary. To crop to a specific width to height ratio, choose it from the Aspect Ratio menu or enter it in the Options bar.

Position your photo inside the crop boundary

Click on the photo and drag to move the photo where you want it inside the crop boundary. If the photo doesn’t look straight, click outside the crop boundary and drag to rotate the photo.

Commit the crop

Before you finalize the crop, consider unchecking the Delete Cropped pixels option. If you do, you’ll be able to bring back the cropped pixels and change your crop settings later. When you’re ready to perform the crop, just click the checkmark in the Options bar or press Enter or Return.

Now you can crop any photo to frame it the way you want it!


Instruction by

Jan Kabili

Adobe Stock Contributor

Mariday

April 12, 2023

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