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6. The Tools in the Toolbox / 6.2 Tools for All Kind of Layers

### 6.2.11 The Crop Tool

The Crop tool is used to cut an image or a document to a given size. Usually you first define the size you want to get. Furthermore you can use the switch Resolution to control whether PhotoLine should scale the selected area to a certain dpi-value after cropping. If this option is turned off, the tool options will always show the resulting dpi-value for the current selection.

If all settings are done, you can select the area want to keep by using a rubber box. Optionally you can turn on guide lines which help you to rate the quality of the image composition.

By clicking Crop or double-clicking inside the selected area cropping is executed. In order to straighten the result, there are several ways to rotate the background:

- by clicking and dragging outside the selection rectangle
- by holding Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS X) and clicking and dragging inside the selection rectangle
- by using Alt+Arrow left and Alt+Arrow right
- on Mac OS X by using the rotate gesture

If your picture is distorted perspectively, you can correct that by clicking and dragging on a corner point while holding the Ctrl key (Windows) or Cmd key (Mac OS X).

The Crop tool is always changing the size of the whole document, while the lasso tool (see chapter 6.3.4) is changing the size of the active layer. If the active layer is the background layer (see chapter 2.10), the result of both tools is similar.

Tip: Typing Tab will switch the given height and width. Landscape will become portrait and vice versa.