The crop tool in Photoshop can actually do much more than crop your images. As I mentioned in the last section, the crop tool can be used to increase your canvas size. It can also be used to rotate and resample images, and in Photoshop 6 it can be used to quickly correct the perspective of an image.
Let's start by exploring the most common use of the crop tool... cropping, of course! Open any image and select the Crop tool. To select an area to be cropped, just click and drag in your image and when you let go, the crop marquee will appear. There's no need to be precise when making the first selection, because you can edit your selection before committing to the crop. You can always save some time if you get it right the first time; however, the default crop cursor makes it somewhat difficult to see exactly where your selection begins and ends.
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I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
We use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)
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