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shambles
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September 25, 2020
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Crop image within a photoshop canvas

  • September 25, 2020
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I have a PS document I use as a 'template'. I place several images withing the canvas, but sometimes need to crop one or more of those images. Is there a way to do this within the document rather than cropping each image seperately, then placing each one back onto that canvas?

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    Conrad_C
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    Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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    September 25, 2020

    It sounds like you might try the Frame tool in Photoshop. With the Frame tool, you can draw rectangles that are placeholder frames that can contain and crop graphics that you drag and drop into the frames. You can then crop the images in Photoshop in two ways:

    • Select the frame thumbnail icon in the Layers panel to be able to select the frame around the graphic and change its size and position relative to the image.
    • Select the image thumbnail icon in the Layers panel to be able to select the image inside the frame and change its size and position relative to the frame.

     

     

    Because frames work as placeholder containers, frames are great for making Photoshop templates.

     

    If you’ve ever used Adobe InDesign, it’s the same idea as the graphics frames in InDesign.

      shambles
      shamblesAuthor
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      September 26, 2020

      Thanks for your reply, Conrad. I have extensive experience with InDesign, and have used that tool often in page layouts for print. Unless there's a feature I'm unaware of,  the frame tool just resizes the image with proportions restrained or not restrained, and positions it within the frame, fits the image to the frame, or the frame to the image. That's not what I was wanting to do in Photoshop. I often need to crop an image either just horizontally or just vertically. I've been opening the individual images, cropping them, then placing them into the Photoshop document. It works, but I didn't know if there was a shortcut to do this for each image within one document. 

       

      I've been using Photoshop for decades and I'm still learning. Is there really any such thing as a "Photoshop Expert"? 😉  I'm retired now, so I'm under no pressure to find solutions.

       

      Thanks again,

      John

      Conrad_C
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      Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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      September 26, 2020

      Shambles wrote:

      I often need to crop an image either just horizontally or just vertically.

       

      Do you mean like what is shown below? A Photoshop frame does allow non-proportional resizing. I dragged the side handles, but the corner handles also weren’t constrained; if they were, the Shift key should toggle that on and off.

       

       

      As for whether anyone is a Photoshop “expert,” Photoshop is such a wide and deep application that in all but a very few cases, people who say they “know” Photoshop are usually experts in the parts they use a lot, but they do not know the many sides of Photoshop that they never touch. A lot of photographic Photoshop experts don’t know the scientific image analysis tools in Photoshop, a lot of web Photoshop experts know little about how to use Photoshop correctly for print, and a lot of experts at using Photoshop for pro-level printing on a million-dollar press know nothing about how to prep an image for professional video production (like how to use Pixel Aspect Ratio).

       

      That’s why we all talk to each other here, we help each other cover each of our own blind spots.

        JJMack
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        JJMackCommunity Expert
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        September 25, 2020

        Crop or resize the image for a  template image area and and mask to image area shape?  Scripts can automate the populations of templates. Free Photoshop Photo Collage and mockup Toolkit 

         

        JJMack
        shambles
        shamblesAuthor
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        September 25, 2020

        Thanks, but I'm not using a Photoshop tempalte. I'm just using a document I creaeted as a template so I can place different photos and save as an individual document. What I'm asking is, can I crop and image or photo within a Photoshop document?

        shambles
        shamblesAuthor
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        September 26, 2020

        The PSD and the PSDT files are Both the templates. The only differences  is the PSDT templates opens as a new document with a new generated name it will do contain the PSDT files content but is a new document without a backing file on your disk.. Where the PSD template opens as the PSD document that is backed by the PSD template file. if you make changes and use "Save" the changes you have modified the template by overwriting the file you opened.  If  you open the PSDT Template file it will open as a new document and if you make changes to update the actual template you have to use "Save As" and save over the PSDT file you opened.  PSDT is the to safeguard your template fro unintentional changes. "Save" will not save a nes file.


        Yes, yes, I know all of that. No one has addressed my particular question.

        Thanks but never mind.
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