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kellym59809340
kellym59809340
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October 18, 2019
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Perspective crop tool

  • October 18, 2019
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Since the latest update, the perspective crop tool is much less useful. I am no longer able to move each side independantly, when I move one side, the two adjacent sides move also. This has made cropping a two step process, in which I have to use both cropping tools to achieve an accurate crop. The basic crop tool is not as fine an adjustment when needing to angle the crop a bit. As a business owner using Photoshop on a daily basis, this is a waste of time! Any suggestions?

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Correct answer davescm

Hold down the Shift key whilst dragging

Dave

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OutDamnSpot
OutDamnSpot
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February 7, 2020

This is marked as a correct answer, but when I try it with the perspective crop tool, the shift key seems to do nothing.  Pressed or not pressed, the whole grid distorts in the way I'd expect it to distort.  I've watched the training tutorial video about the perspective crop tool, and I think I understand it even though it is for a now very old version of PS, and it is relevant only for cropping a picture off a wall, and adjusting its perspective.  It isn't easy to work out from that lesson what to do to adjust the perspective of an image with several lines that should be vertical but nothing that should make a rectangle.  I'm working on an image of several tall radio masts.  I've looked at the perspective warp tool, but that seems to be difficult to use for anything other than the outside of a building.  

kellym59809340
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February 7, 2020

This problem was rectified after the latest Photoshop upgrade. There's no need to use the shift key on the current or older versions of Photoshop. If you need to adjust the perspective of an image, this is the tool to use. Make the lines verticle and don't adjust the sides that don't need to be adjusted, it works!

OutDamnSpot
OutDamnSpot
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February 7, 2020

Hello kellym,

 

Thanks for explaining why it works.  By accident, I also solved my "vertical lines, but no rectangles" problem.  The Camera Raw filter has a suitable trick, and I just stumbled over it while rummaging about.  I stumble over lots of the features in PS by accident.

 

OutDamnSpot

davescm
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davescmCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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October 18, 2019

Hold down the Shift key whilst dragging

Dave

    kellym59809340
    kellym59809340Author
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    October 30, 2019

    Thanks, that works!

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