The Crop Tool

The cropping tool does exactly what you would expect, it crops out a rectangular portion of your canvas and throws away the pixels outside the crop.

To create a crop marquee, simply select the Crop Tool, click on the canvas and drag out an area. When you do so, Photoshop will create a temporary crop selection which you can easily edit or move just like any other selection.

To move the crop selection, simply position the pointer inside the area and drag. The sample above shows a "crop handle" circled in white. To resize, drag any of the "crop handles".

To scale proportionally, do it with any of the corner "crop handles" while holding down the Shift key. To rotate the selection, click drag outside the crop selection. And finally, to cancel the crop, hit the ESCAPE key.

When you are satisfied, simply click on the crop selection and it will be cropped to your specification.

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