Photshop # 2: How to Crop an Image

Zabeth Tan Gochuico, one talented scrapper, wants to know how to crop pictures in Photoshop so that the image doesn't get distorted.

Ok, let's say you want to crop your picture into a regular 4x6 size. This is what you do.

1. Open your image first. Open a new file (File > New). A dialogue box will pop-up for you to indicate the details of your file. Enter as follows: WIDTH: 6 inches, HEIGHT: 4 and make sure that the resolution is at least 300 dpi, color mode RBG,8 bit.
2. Drage your image into the new file then press Edit>Transform>Scale. It is important that you press down the Shift key as you drag the corner bounding box inward to fit. (or outward if the image is smaller)

3. Once you're satified with your cropping, just press enter.

This is also the key when you do digital scrapping. When you add an element into your "page" sometimes you have to adjust it to a smaller or bigger size. Just remember to hold the shift key down so as not to have a distorted image.

I hope this helps, Zabeth!