Adobe 29180155 User Guide - Page 159

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4.0 154 User Guide • To resize the marquee, drag a handle. (If you choose No Restriction from the Aspect Ratio menu, you can constrain the proportions while scaling by holding down Shift as you drag a corner handle.) • To rotate the marquee, position the pointer outside the bounding box (the pointer turns into a curved arrow ), and drag. (You can't rotate the crop marquee for an image in Bitmap mode.) Note: You can change the color and opacity of the crop shield (the cropped area surrounding the image) in the options bar. 5 Click the Commit button located in the options bar, or press Return to finish the cropping. If you want to cancel the cropping operation, click the Cancel button or press Esc. Click the Commit button to accept a crop. See also "To resample an image" on page 160 To crop to a selection boundary Using the Crop command, you can remove the areas that fall outside of the current selection. When you crop to a selection boundary, Photoshop Elements trims the image to the bounding box that contains the selection. (Irregularly shaped selections, such as those made by using the Lasso tool, are cropped to a rectangular bounding box that contains the selection.) If you use the Crop command without first making a selection, Photoshop Elements automatically centers a crop bounding box 50 pixels from each edge. 1 In the Editor, use any selection tool, such as the Rectangular Marquee tool , to select the part of the image you want to keep. 2 Choose Image > Crop. To use the Cookie Cutter tool The Cookie Cutter tool crops a photo into a shape that you choose. After you drag the shape in your photo, you can move and resize the bounding box until you have just the area you want.