2023-10-15 11:55:05
When you’re new to Photoshop, one of the first things you need to learn how to do is crop an image. Today, Futura explains step by step how to achieve this.
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All Photoshop tutorials aimed at beginners contain a section on clipping in the first paragraphs. This operation is one of the basic manipulations that the novice must learn to master in order to edit and retouch images.
According to the dictionary, clipping is “the elimination on a phototype of the background surrounding a subject, by applicationapplication of a special product“. More simply, cropping an image involves selecting one of its elements and removing the rest. In this way, the clipped object can be reused and pasted onto another image. Futura shows you step by step how to master this operation.
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Import an image
Once you have launched Photoshop, you must first choose the image you are going to work on. Click “File” in the menu bar, then click “Open.”
An explorer window opens. Go to the folder containing your image, click on it to select it and click “Open”.
Select the object to crop
The image to be cropped has now taken its place in the central working area. You will now have to isolate the element you want to keep before removing the background. To do this, the first thing to do is click on the quick selection tool in the toolbar.
Click on the element to be cut out (the doggy in the example) and hold down the left mouse button. Then, move the slider to enlarge the selected area.
At the end of the operation, the selection should roughly follow the outline of the object to be cut out.
You can see in the image below that the clipping is not yet very precise (at the legs for example).
You now need to outline the outline more clearly. To retouch with more precision, you can use the “Zoom” tool. After selecting it in the bar on the left of the screen, all you have to do is click on the part of the image that needs to be enlarged. It may take several clicks to get to the desired size. To zoom out, hold down the “alt” key and click on the image (the zoom tool must still be active).
From now on, you must remove unwanted areas from the selection. To achieve this, switch to the quick selection tool once more, hold down the “alt” key, and then click on small areas that are not part of the object. Similar to selecting the item, you can hold down the left mouse button to expand the area that should not be selected.
Remove image background
When you have achieved a satisfactory result, it is time to isolate and separate the clipped object from the image. To do this, right-click on the object, then on “Layer by copy”. The new layer appears on the right. Just below, you can now right-click on the background and choose “Delete Layer”.
The gray and white boxes represent the absence of background, it is different from a white background. The final image should look like this.
Move the clipped object to a second image
Once the object has been clipped, you can save it for use later. To do this, click on “File” then “Save as” (choosing the appropriate format). But you also have the possibility of embedding it directly on another image.
To do this, first import a new image (File > Open) which is displayed in a new tab. Return to the first tab. Then select the “Move” tool in the toolbar on the left. Now all you have to do is drag and drop the clipped element to the other tab.
The interface automatically switches to the second image during drag/drop. You can place the clipped element wherever you want and then continue working on it followingwards.
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