Yay for Cropping in Photoshop CS6!

Yay for Cropping in Photoshop CS6!

If you've been looking for a reason to upgrade to Photoshop CS6, the new cropping tool may be one of the biggest reasons to consider it. The cropping tool is now NONDESTRUCTIVE and works pretty much like the cropping tool in Lightroom. Once you press the key that accepts the cropping, the cropped pixels are not discarded but rather are simply ignored, but retrievable if you just re-crop. Fantastic, but that's not all. Notice the way the interface now executes a crop — by showing the cropping frame in the context of the full image. Look familiar?

As you crop, the full image is still visible and the image rotates rather than the cropping frame. Sweet! It's about time Grandpa Photoshop learned this slick trick from Lightroom.

Comments

[iconoclastica]

Maybe it's just me, working with Photoshop and Lightroom together. I have always used Lightroom to get the framing right. With pictures sizes in the gigabyte range, I am always glad to be able to do a bit of destructive cropping in PS. Both ways have their uses, not everuthing should become the same.

[Philip Alldrit]

I have always used Photoshop RAW, which offers non-destructive cropping along with all the image processing tools, as in Lightroom.

The new Photoshop crop tool is pretty good; however, to be non destructive, one needs to uncheck the "delete pixels option" on the tool bar otherwise it will throw them away. There is a good Adobe TV video explaining all the new features of the crop tool at:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-complete-picture-with-julieanne-kost/the-newly-redesigned-crop-tool-in-photoshop-cs6/